DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Downton Abbey, Antonio Gramsci, Hegemony

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

Document Summary

There is a relation between diagnoses and social identity. Intersectionality: oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined separately. Kimberl crenshaw coined the term in 1989. Term important, used in critical theories when discussing oppression. Bilge and denis ~concept ~1800s from black women. They pioneered it to address exclusion from discussion e. g. race - black men. Make invisible groups visible by paying attention to points of intersection. Sojourner truth - ain"t i a woman? speech. 3 key points with intersectional analysis: not an additive analysis. There is no hierarchy of oppressions--e. g. a gay, low income white man is less oppressed than a gay, disabled black womanetc etc. Race + disability + age = not necessarily more oppressed than you. Someone can"t be 4x more oppressed than another. Man diagnosed as mad = oppressed, becomes a mad scholar = authority and. The same diagnosis is differently experienced in different contexts: be specific. How particular identities gain meaning = context.