ENG215H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White Privilege, Experience 7, Intersectionality
Document Summary
Atwood has a knack for exploring women"s rights and gender issues: likes to talk about female psychology that underlies the politics in the news. Page 28 she is as plain as bread she is not a rival to her sisters the guys to some extent accept her. She has internalized these male values so much, that she has to an extent turned on other women: in a way, this internalization, helps her police other women. Doesn"t fit in with the stereotypes, yet she kind of wants to. Even if you don"t think you have internalized it (other people"s values), you more than likely have: professor hill says be kinder to yourself". Page 31-32: the police have been called, but she is still defending her stalker. Page 30: she feels smaller the internalization of others opinions about her as a person have made her feel weak. Talked about (the racial gaze) side by side with the gendered gaze.
