FEMST 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Steinem, Audre Lorde
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Concerns projected as universal were removed from realities of many women"s lives (ex: liberation= getting into workplace- resonated w/white, college-educated women but irrelevant to working class women & colored women. Already working for wages didn"t consider jobs liberating . Masters hold power & privilege over others (i. e. gender, race, class, sexuality) Master"s tools are beliefs, views & practices that maintain systems of power (i. e. sexism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, homophobia) Master"s house : power structure as a whole; overarching system of domination (i. e. institutionalized racism, sexism, heterosexism: lorde critiques white feminists for not realizing their methods of fighting sexism perpetuate other oppressive structures like racism. Master"s tools refer to patriarchal ideologies that ignore difference & force the oppressed to educate the oppressors perpetuated inequality w/in a movement to end inequality. Intersectionality: recognized multiplicities of identities, rejects either/or model (i. e. privilege vs. no privilege), replaces it with both/and model *i. e.
