POLS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peggy Mcintosh, Critical Race Theory, Judith Butler
17 Feb 2017
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Queen"s university is on traditional anishinaabe and haudenosaunee territory. Agenda: positionality, supreme court example, gender and politics overview, critical theory, colonialism in canada, literature, policy windows, missing and murdered indigenous women, highway of tears, documentary clip. Positionality: positionality, privilege and reflexivity, drawn from sociology, significance: speaking for/about others, reflect on your own positionality. Gender and politics overview: centering considerations of sex/gender in political issues, significance: different understandings of the issue and different solutions, sex = male/female, biological, gender = men/women, feminine/masculine, social, non-binary: spectrum. Intersex: identity = self-identification versus legal/political/social identification. Judith butler gender and sex are reformed. Looks at existing racial structures which are based off of white privilege. Indigenous people experience racism in our society which is structured in our society: intersectionality. They experience those things together and cannot separate them. They experience both sexism and racism: indigenous feminism.
