COMM 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29 : Dualism, Essentialism, Standpoint (Magazine)
16 Dec 2016
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Feminism: focusing on women"s social position and desiring to end oppression based on gender. Material life (or class position) structures and limits understandings of social relations. When material life is structured in two opposing ways for two different groups, the understanding of each will be an inversion of the other. When there is a dominant and a subordinate group, the understanding of the dominant group will be both partial and harmful. The vision of the ruling group structures the material relations in which all groups are forced to participate. The vision available to an oppressed group represents struggle and an achievement. The potential understanding of the oppressed (the standpoint) makes visible the inhumanity of the existing relations among groups and moves us toward a better and more just world. Standpoint: an achieved position based on a social location that lends an interpretative aspect to a person"s life.
