Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Attention Philadelphia Folks!
Shade: A Panel Discussion of Race and Feminism
Wednesday 16 April at 7:00pm
"Black Feminism and Intersectionality"
This article explores what "intersectionality" is and why it is necessary in the context of feminism. For the purposes of this article, intersectionality requires that when speaking of social ills through a feminist lens we also consider race and class. Without a discussion of intersectionality, we can only explore the experiences of women in a limited and exclusionary way; what immediately comes to my mind is the Twitter hashtag "feminism is for white women." This article should be a required read in Women's Studies classes and for anyone who subscribes to feminism.
Tl;dr
"Black legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 'intersectionality' in her insightful 1989 essay, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. The concept of intersectionality is not an abstract notion but a description of the way multiple oppressions are experienced."
"[Crenshaw] argues that Black women are frequently absent from analyses of either gender oppression or racism, since the former focuses primarily on the experiences of white women and the latter on Black men. She seeks to challenge both feminist and antiracist theory and practice that neglect to 'accurately reflect the interaction of race and gender,' arguing that 'because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated.'"
"Because of the historic role of slavery and racial segregation in the United States, the development of a unified women’s movement requires recognizing the manifold implications of this continuing racial divide. While all women are oppressed as women, no movement can claim to speak for all women unless it speaks for women who also face the consequences of racism—which place women of color disproportionately in the ranks of the working class and the poor. Race and class therefore must be central to the project of women’s liberation if it is to be meaningful to those women who are most oppressed by the system."
Tl;dr
"Black legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 'intersectionality' in her insightful 1989 essay, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. The concept of intersectionality is not an abstract notion but a description of the way multiple oppressions are experienced."
"[Crenshaw] argues that Black women are frequently absent from analyses of either gender oppression or racism, since the former focuses primarily on the experiences of white women and the latter on Black men. She seeks to challenge both feminist and antiracist theory and practice that neglect to 'accurately reflect the interaction of race and gender,' arguing that 'because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated.'"
"Because of the historic role of slavery and racial segregation in the United States, the development of a unified women’s movement requires recognizing the manifold implications of this continuing racial divide. While all women are oppressed as women, no movement can claim to speak for all women unless it speaks for women who also face the consequences of racism—which place women of color disproportionately in the ranks of the working class and the poor. Race and class therefore must be central to the project of women’s liberation if it is to be meaningful to those women who are most oppressed by the system."
Saturday, April 12, 2014
"Rape Culture is Real"
Read the article here. Another great article is this one, Rape Culture is When...
Finally, see this, which looks at a study that finds that girls view sexual violence as normal.
Tl;dr (first linked article)"Last week, in an essay, Caroline Kitchens wrote that rape culture as a theory over-hyped by 'hysterical' feminists. Emboldened by a disappointing and out of touch statement by the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), Kitchens writes, 'Recently, rape-culture theory has migrated from the lonely corners of the feminist blogosphere into the mainstream. In January, the White House asserted that we need to combat campus rape by ‘[changing] a culture of passivity and tolerance in this country, which too often allows this type of violence to persist…’ Tolerance for rape? Rape is a horrific crime, and rapists are despised.'"
"'If so many millions of women were getting carjacked or kidnapped, we’d call it a public crisis. That we accept [rape] as normal, even inevitable, is all the evidence I need,' Jacyln Friedman, author Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape told me, in response to Kitchens’ piece. 'If we already despise rapists, why are they so rarely held accountable in any way?,' Friedman asks. An analysis by RAINN found that 97% of rapists never spend a single day in jail for their crimes. 'What we really despise is the idea of rapists: a terrifying monster lurking in the bushes, waiting to pounce on an innocent girl as she walks by,' Friedman says. 'But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don’t despise them nearly as much as we should.'"
Tl;dr (second linked article)
" The rape culture frame has helped me explain feminist ideas about sexual assault to lots of non-feminist types over the years. For instance, the entire social expectation that women are supposed to reluctantly “give” sex to men who aggressively demand it is a big facet of rape culture. I always note that norms like that one encourage all sorts of bad phenomena beyond assault, like the sexualization of younger women, the damaging myth that men can’t be rape victims, and even false rape accusations (which remain rare). "
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