GEN&SEX 50B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carole Pateman, New Social Movements, Chicano Nationalism
20 Jun 2018
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Concepts for Review
- New Social Movements: movements that emerged in the 60s that was organized around identity
politics/formations. Instead of broad based movements (i.e. Anti-war movement)
Set around a set of experiences by identity
- Intersectional analysis: multiple, interlocking identities
Women of color and domestic violence (the problem isn’t just with male domination-
shaped by race and class ex. Can’t go to the police because historical subjugation by
police)
Immigrant women can’t get into shelters (because of English language proficiency)
- Interlocking matrix of oppression:
- Cultural nationalism: nation within a nation
Reflected in queer nationalism, Chicano nationalism etc.
- Identity is a major factor in political mobilization
- Identity politics can be limiting if they don’t consider identity as multi-dimensional
- Modes of oppression do not act independently
- Intersectional analysis/ critique is a method for unpacking the interlocking matrix of oppression
faced by women of color
Gender and Nationalism
- Nation-state formation
Western construct
Has become compulsory political form for the rest of the world
Based on concept of citizens as individuals, detached from communities
Individual is contract-making citizen
Relies on notion of individual as property owner - first and foremost an owner
of himself
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Meant to be universal, but in fact the Western liberal notion of citizen implies a
masculine subject
Males were property owners
Carole Pateman argues that modern nation-state is a “fraternal patriarchy”
Dominant idiom is brothers
Free men enter into the social contract that creates an association of autonomous,
individualized, contract-making people
Only possible for property owners, who are largely men
From the beginning, Western liberal construct of the nation- state is already gendered
concept
Gets imposed on gendered systems of social stratification
Nationalism, too, is most often patriarchal and exclusionary while claiming to
inclusionary
Nationalism aspires to horizontalism:
Community, democratic, equality
Seeks unity over divisions
Shared past
Shared future
Nationalist feminist asked to choose “nation” over “particular” group issues
Nationalism always a gendered project
Relies on gendered forms of participation and exclusion
Mobilizes gendered images
Produces new gendered subjects
- Two dimensions in nationalist project
Woman as symbol
Valued commodity
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Document Summary
New social movements: movements that emerged in the 60s that was organized around identity politics/formations. Instead of broad based movements (i. e. anti-war movement) Set around a set of experiences by identity. Women of color and domestic violence (the problem isn"t just with male domination- shaped by race and class ex. Can"t go to the police because historical subjugation by police) Immigrant women can"t get into shelters (because of english language proficiency) Identity is a major factor in political mobilization. Identity politics can be limiting if they don"t consider identity as multi-dimensional. Modes of oppression do not act independently. Intersectional analysis/ critique is a method for unpacking the interlocking matrix of oppression faced by women of color. Has become compulsory political form for the rest of the world. Based on concept of citizens as individuals, detached from communities. Relies on notion of individual as property owner - first and foremost an owner of himself.
