WGS Midterm Scholars
Combahee River Collective
"A Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment"
Patricia Hill Collins
"Black Feminist Thought"
Laurel Westbrook & Kristen Schilt
"Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System"
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
"Disabled Women and Reproductive Justice"
Zakiya Luna
"From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of US Reproductive Rights Organizing"
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
"Incarcerated Women and Reproductive Justice"
Lisa Wade
"Introduction: Sex and Gender Through the Prism of Difference" & "The New Science of Sex Difference"
Raewyn W. Connell
"Masculinizes and Globalization"
Abigail C. Saguy & Kirstin Gruys
"Morality and Health: News Media Constructions of Overweight and Eating Disorders"
Heather Hlavka
"Normalizing Sexual Violence: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse"
Allan G. Johnson
"Patriarchy, the System"
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
"Racism without Racists"
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
"Reproductive Justice Issues for Asian and Pacific Islander Women"
Victor Rios
"The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline ob Black and Latino Masculinity"
George Lipsitz
"The Possessive Investment in Whiteness"
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thorton Dill
"Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism"
Peggy McIntosh
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack"
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
"Yearning For Lightness: Transitional Circuits in the Marketing and Consumption of Skin Lighteners"
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
API access to health care is low and also hazardous low wage employment
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
API exposure to environmental toxins
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Abortions often restricted against will for women in prison
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Abstract liberalism= involves using ideas associated with political liberalism and economic liberalism in an abstract manner to explain racial matters
Raewyn W. Connell
An understanding of the world gender order is a necessary basis for thinking about men and masculinities globally. We can trace the emergence of globalizing masculinities at different stages of the history of the world gender.
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Anti-immigrant policies (backlog, deportation, prevent family reunification)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Argues that in many areas of the work, light skin tone is a form of symbolic capital
George Lipsitz
Argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment
Lisa Wade
Biologically determines; socially constructed
Patricia Hill Collins
Black feminist thought usually involves black intellectual women
Patricia Hill Collins
Black women feminists are critical of how black culture and may of its traditions oppress women
Combahee River Collective
Civil rights, black nationalism, black panthers movement
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Color blind racism
Combahee River Collective
Contemporary black feminism= an outcome of generations of personal sacrifice, militancy, and work by out mothers and sisters
Victor Rios
Criminal justice pipeline encourages hyper masculinity; Police, incarceration, and probation make environments force young men to emphasize their masculinity
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Cultural racism= frame that relies on culturally based arguments such as "Mexicans do not put much emphasis on education" or "Blacks have too many babies" to explain the standing of minorities in society
George Lipsitz
Describes weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination, and school segregation
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Disabled women have the right to parent (forced sterilization)
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Disabled women often referred to as asexual
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Discusses colorist, beauty, skin bleaching, globalism, and discrimination
Lisa Wade
Evolution and Natural Selection
Abigail C. Saguy & Kirstin Gruys
Examines how such social and moral meanings of body size inform new reporting on eating disorders and overweight
Abigail C. Saguy & Kirstin Gruys
Examines how widely shared cultural values shape social problem construction and, in return, can reproduce social inequality
Laurel Westbrook & Kristen Schilt
Explores "determining gender", the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories
Abigail C. Saguy & Kirstin Gruys
Fatness is linkes to low status and seen as a sign of sloth and gluttony
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Few resources available for women in prison
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Four main frames: abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, minimization of racism
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thorton Dill
Goes beyond just recognizing diversity and difference among women to examine domination (specifically race in understanding gender social constructions)
Heather Hlavka
Harassment is not reported because young women feel they are not important enough and or ignored by the law
Raewyn W. Connell
How do you participate in masculinity? -behavior, appearance, advertisements from kid's toys
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Human trafficking
Victor Rios
Hypermasculinity= "exaggerated exhibition of physical strength and personal aggression"; "expressed through physical and sexual domination of others"
Peggy McIntosh
Just as men are willing to admit women are disadvantaged but unwilling to admit they are privileged, the same goes for whites and blacks
Peggy McIntosh
Lists ways that white privilege affects her daily
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Maintaining relationships with children is hard for women in prison
Combahee River Collective
Major topics discussed: genesis is contemporary black feminism, what we believe (the specific province of our politics), the problems in organizing black feminists, and black feminist issues and practice.
Raewyn W. Connell
Masculinity- showing off
Heath Hlavka
Mens aggression is often just referred to as "boys being boys"
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Minimization of racism= suggests discrimination is no longer a central factor affecting minorities life chances
Victor Rios
More people of color are incarcerated; results in mistrust of police, has negative effects on families and communities
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Naturalization= frame that allows whites to explain away racial phenomena by suggesting they are natural occurences
Patricia Hill Collins
One distinctive feature is its insistence that both the changes consciousness of individuals and the social transformation of political and economic institutions constitute essential ingredients for social change
Lisa Wade
Oppression in genes
Allan G. Johnson
Patriarchy is about standard of feminine beauty and masculine toughness, images of feminine vulnerability and masculine protectiveness, the core value of control and domination in almost every area of human existence
Allan G. Johnson
Patriarchy=system of govt in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Pre natal care is sub standard
Zakiya Luna
Quote: "A human right implies that any system of government is unacceptable if it denies the full expression of the natural, inalienable rights of human beings. On the other hand, civil rights are merely adjustments to a systemic structure that us otherwise entirely acceptable"
Combahee River Collective
Quote: "As black women we see black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all when of color face"
Victor Rios
Quote: "As the criminal just system perpetuates gender violence on young men to 'teach them a lesson', young men develop a hypermasculinity that symbolically attacks the system"
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thorton Dill
Quote: "Difference and diversity infuse contemporary feminist studies"
Peggy McIntosh
Quote: "It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all"
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Quote: "Like all women of color, Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women in the United States are negatively impacted by policies and practices that aim to control their bodies, sexuality, and reproduction"
Heather Hlavka
Quote: "Many regard harassment and violence to be a normal part of everyday life in middle and high schools, yet most of these crimes go unreported"
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thorton Dill
Quote: "Multiracial feminism is an evolving body of theory and practice informed by wide-ranging intellectual traditions"
Peggy McIntosh
Quote: "My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make"
Laurel Westbrook & Kristen Schilt
Quote: "Transgender equality has never been more visible as a key issue than it is today, and with the development of every new trans-sportive law or policy, there typically follows an outbreak of criticism"
Peggy McIntosh
Quote: "White privilege is an invisible package... a weightless backpack"
Patricia Hill Collins
Represents black women's emerging power as agents of knowledge
Zakiya Luna
Reproductive justice=attaining human rights
Lisa Wade
Reviews 3 subjects scientists have documents clear biological differences between men and women: genetics, hormones, and brain structure/function
Heather Hlavka
Sexual reputation matters to girls and they don't want to be labeled as a hoe or slut
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Sexual violence of disabled women
Zakiya Luna
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Collective
Combahee River Collective
System of white male rule; American political system sexual identity and racial identity make their whole life situation and political struggles unique
Patricia Hill Collins
Term: "Afrocentric"
Patricia Hill Collins
Term: "Eurocentric masculine epistemologies"
Laurel Westbrook & Kristen Schilt
Trangender equality
Allan G. Johnson
Uses Monopoly analogy to complicate an understanding pf social systems
Allan G. Johnson
We should all participate in patriarchy
Georg Lippitz
Whiteness is structures advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing and health care for minorities
Zakiya Luna
Women of color reproductive justice
