WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Identity Politics, Domestic Violence, Underfunded
Document Summary
Idea of women coming together to realize a personal problem is a broad systematic issue ie domestic violence. Conflicts with identity politics: ignores intergroup differences, violence shaped by race or class, lack of intersection in politics. Intersection of race and gender: although there are more issues. How the location of women of color at the int of race and gender makes experience with violence different: a. Enter da shelter, only abuse is addressed (not poverty or other issues) Being a woman of color makes them socially or economically most marginal: b. Funding agencies will only consider difficult work to ensure protection and safety info and referral : underfunded. Feminist and antiracist politics marginalize issue of violence with women of color: women of intersectionality are a part of 2 political parties with conflicting agendas, da shielded to prevent racial stereotypes. Antiracial but not feminist: culture honor to family is priority, resistance to public intervention/police hostility.
