Exam 1: Chapter 1 Flashcards
What does Daly mean by “class-race-gender” as a project for feminism?
- Inequalities as intersecting, interlocking, and contingent (NOT additive)
- Focus on “matrix of domination” via individual, group, social
- Push to start deconstructing “class” and “race”
What is the method of Class-Race-Gender?
Use of narrative to show multiple inequalities
What are the pros of “class-race-gender”?
- Conceptualizes multiple relations of inequality
- it is more inclusive to the various identifies that women can have
What are the cons of “class-race-gender”?
- Condemned to be haunted by a voice from the margins
- Identifying new vocabularies to discuss multiple, intersecting or interlocking inequalities
- It is relatively new
What does “class-race-gender” contribute to criminology?
can be used to politicize and problematize knowledge with other scholars.
What do feminists mean by “doing gender”?
- Anti-rape legislation and rape trials
- Performing femininity or masculinity
What are some strengths associated with “doing gender”?
-addresses gender as something separate from sex
What are some arguments against “doing gender” research for criminology?
- ignores power, oppression, as well as, resistance and conflict
- gender (or race) could be viewed merely as an accomplishment or performance
- desire to retain structures of power’ that precede and are produced by gender as ‘accomplishments’
- retaining some semblance of social structure or materialism
- how to conceptualize a gendered line of social action w/o once again establishing boys and men as the norm, differentiating themselves from all that is ‘feminine’
What does this “doing gender” contribute to criminology?
- scholars will have to let go of thinking about gender as attributes of persons
- scholars will have to examine how situations and social practices produce qualities and identities associated with membership in particular social categories
- researchers will need to be mindful that categories taken from theorizing masculinity may be inappropriately applied to femininity
- the terms used to describe men and women are no likely to be interchangeable
What are identity politics? Give an example.
The process of naming oneself in terms of social location or identity, which is tied to a particular set of experiences and viewpoints. This means different women will have different knowledges about what being a woman entails. Examples include self-identified radical women of color and black feminists.
What is feminism empiricism? Give an example.
Feminism empiricism, refers to “improvements in knowledge by removing sexist and androcentric biases”.
Ex. methodological norms of science
What is feminist standpoint? Give an example.
Feminist standpoint refers “to how ‘women’s subjugated position provides the possibility of more complete and less perverse understandings’ than the dominant position of men”
This standpoint is formed based off of women’s experiences from the perspective of feminism, which makes it accessible to both men and women
Ex. exploited and alienated sexuality (of women)
What is feminist postmodernism? Give an example.
Feminist postmodernism is “a heterogeneous set of critiques of Enlightenment thought with its associated hierarchical dualism, disembodied claims of truth innocent of power, and assumptions of a stable, coherent self”
What is discourse?
How we think and communicate about people, things, and the society aspects of society, and the relationships among all three
