WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Role, White Privilege, Intersectionality
13 Apr 2015
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Koyama; need to look at how feminism can broaden their definition to include transgender women as well women coming from different standpoints with different backgrounds. Feminism and women"s studies have challenged our notions of what normative is: The categories we work with race, class, gender, sexuality, etc run the risk of being define by difference alone. This would assume a norm of male, white, heterosexual, middle-class. Mcintosh and kimmel: say that normal is a fiction; how you do gender/ normative is up for negotiation. If we acknowledge that women are disadvantaged (underrepresented in curricular, underpaid in workforce, overworked in family, etc) then we must also acknowledge that men are correspondingly privileged. We must also acknowledge that male is a gender is culturally created and curated and not neutral or the norm . Over-representation of men in culture doesn"t correlate to real-world benefits for actual men. Male privilege and over-representation isn"t systematic, its idiosyncratic.
