FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patricia Hill Collins, Cardinal Virtues, Islamic Feminism
22 Jan 2020
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Just fighting for a seat at the table vs thinking more radically. Racism emma experiences was sexualizes, sexism emma experienced was racialized . Systems of power intersecting to produce an intersection of oppression based on identity. Liberal feminism as fighting gender oppression but not taking into account oppression on the basis of other identities. From patricia hill collins (2000) black feminist thought . The cult of true womanhood where [white] women possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity. White women controlled by images of domesticity. Propertied white women and those of the emerging middle class were encouraged to aspire to these virtues. African-american women encountered a different set of controlling images (72). The mammy domestic servant to white families; asexual; mother figure; good . The matriarch domineering and controlling black mother; often single; bad . The welfare mother poor, working-class black women imagined/imaged to be playing the system; bad .
