HUMA 1951 Study Guide - Final Guide: Civilizing Mission, Jiwani, Intersectionality
29 Jan 2015
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Intersectionality- social identity interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality)i. e. we do not live single issue lives- lorde; the several factors that create a person"s identity. The intersectionality of race- discourses of race mediate how we make sense of gender, class, sexuality, disability and ability, national difference. Constructs of ideal masculinity and ideal femininity are white constructs. Crenshaw argues in favour of how it fails to recognize differences among people. Ex. violence against women she says that violence is intersectional as it is shaped by gender, race and class. The violence that madeleine and her girls face. Representation: how we see things produces meaning; depends on location, it is strongly determined by what we believe and know (berger) Representations regulate our ideas of truth" and the binary; it affects the conventions of seeing. What we should be seeing and what is the truth". Mainstream media disciplines and regulates our behaviour based on gender, race and nation.
