WGST 1808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Identity Politics, Wgst, Mank

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Last 2 decades women have organized against the almost routine violence that shapes their lives. Battering & rape now largely recognized as part of a broad-scale system that affects women as a class. Process of recognizing as social & systemic what was formerly perceived as isolated & individual has also characterized the identity politics of african americans, other people of color, and gays and lesbians, among others. View that the social power in delineating difference need not be the power of domination instead, the source of social empowerment & reconstruction. Problem w/ identity politics = frequently conflates/ignores intragroup differences. Ignoring difference within groups contributes to tension among groups. Intersections tend not to be represented within discourses of feminism or antiracism women of color are marginalized within both. In most cases, physical assault that leads women to these shelters is merely the most immediate manifestation of the subordination they experience.