GENDER 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Memphis, Tennessee, Frances M. Beal, Dean Spade
Document Summary
Racialized and classed differentiation of gender norms and gender roles. Experience of black women through a structural analysis of how capitalism reinforces. America has defined the roles to which each individual should subscribe. Black women were never considered the idealized cult of true womanhood. Denies black women from fitting into gender norms. Right to bear children and be a mother. Forced to bear children vs. actively prevented from doing so. Whose reproductive capacities are considered as contributing to society. Men and women are not categories into which people fall into. Not biologically defined, constituted through one"s place in relationship to public and private, domesticity, labor, etc. Didn"t actually say her most famous speech: ain"t i a woman . Sanitation workers strike - memphis, tn, 1968: I am not a man , performance piece (2009), artist: d. scott. Transgender organizing has enabled us to say that maybe man/woman isn"t the only thing there is.
