in:
Feminist social thought
New York:
1997
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161 - 179 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Spelman, Elizabeth V. info |
| In: | Feminist social thought |
| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Spelmen challenges the thesis that gender is separate from race by inviting her readers to imagine James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Spelman herself, and Spelman's brother lined up on a stage. What, she asks, do she and Angela Davis have in common, apart from the fact that they are both gendered as women, that distinguishes the two of them from both of the men? The answer is far from obvious since experiencing gender as a Black woman differs in many salient respects from experiencing gender as a white woman: Now, it may seem that we need more facts about Black women and white women in order to settle this question. But Spelman denies that empirical studies can establish what these two groups of women have in common. Empirical research rests on normatively conditioned beliefs about what similarities and differences are worth studying, criteria of sameness and difference, and the significance of the similarities and differences that are found. Objective investigation that transcend social power relations and cultural values is not possible. Thus, Spelman turns to an examination of the way in which different classification systems locate individuals in a social order. Spelman models social classification schemes as a customs hall where people are rquired to pass through doors labeled according to gender or race. This model shows that differences among women are obscured when gender is considered primary, and that the self-understandings of white women then tend to be privileged. Also, the customs-hall model exposes the artiviciality and alterability of classification schemes and opens up the possibility of politically resisting and reshaping them. | |
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