"What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics

Brown, Elsa Barkley

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“…Elsa Barkley Brown (1995) explains that acknowledging difference between unequal groups in society is only the beginning. Looking at how difference is relational helps us to see the common basis of privilege and oppression in a system that awards some while punishing others.…”

Section: Black Feminist Organizing Recognizes Relational Differencementioning

confidence: 97%

“…From her summary of black feminist literature, Patricia Hill Collins (1991) presents this conceptual tool, utilized by historians such as Elsa Barkley Brown (1995), philosopher/activist Angela Davis (1983), and others (Dill 1983;Giddings 1984;Hooks 1981Hooks , 1984Lorde 1984;Smith 1999;Zinn et al 1986) to address a social scientific audience. Integrated analysis clearly continues to be an essential feature of black feminist and women of color organizing in the post 9-11-2001 era.…”

Section: Feature 2: Black Feminism Highlights the Importance Of Integmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Black Feminist Analysis of Responses to War, Racism, and Repression

Zerai

Salime

2006

Critical Sociology

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In March 2003, the US government launched a military invasion and occupation of Iraq. This was one more phase of the US National Security Strategy doctrine that promises militarism, war, and disruption in various sovereign states. These wars abroad and the unprecedented powers of government and police agencies in the USA represent powerful intersections of patriarchal authority, racism, militarism, and elitism. Africana communities have a long history of resisting repression both directly and indirectly related to US foreign policy. Social scientists writing from a black feminist perspective have described how such mutually constructing forces of race, class, gender, and nation have influenced the lives of people of color, women, and the poor in American society and have highlighted the historical and sociological importance of resistance by these oppressed groups. Specifically, this paper addresses ways in

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Section: Black Feminist Organizing Recognizes Relational Differencementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Feature 2: Black Feminism Highlights the Importance Of Integmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Black Feminist Analysis of Responses to War, Racism, and Repression

Zerai

Salime

2006

Critical Sociology

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“…They claim that when 'gender' is discussed by itself, it comes to mean 'White heterosexual women,' and this erasure, repeated over time, marginalizes women of color, queer women, and queer women of color (e.g. Brown, 1992;Carillo Rowe, 2000). By subsuming 'sexual violence' under 'gender,' in this interaction, Ashley and I participate in a practice that makes sexual violence about whiteness and heterosexuality.…”

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Re-situating organizational knowledge: Violence, intersectionality and the privilege of partial perspective

Harris

2016

Human Relations

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Scholars have called repeatedly for more nuanced understandings of power and organizational knowledge, but researchers have yet to integrate available critical frameworks that could link these concepts. Moreover, existing analyses of power in organizational knowledge tend to focus on role differences but do not yet consider how social differences – including gender, race and sexuality – shape knowledge. Working from a practice-based approach, I draw upon standpoint theory and intersectionality to show how whiteness, masculinity and heteronormativity are embedded in organizational knowledge. I construct this argument using a case study at a US university known for having some of the best systems for building organizational knowledge about sexual violence on campus. I argue that the university’s practices – specifically those related to interpretation and definition – mask heterogeneity in knowledge across the university. I also show how practices give the university’s knowledge the appearance of neutrality and, subsequently, can unintentionally defer important organizational actions.

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“…Lather, 2007). In my reading, voice in intersectional communication research is often conceptualized along two lines: as the manifestation of a human inner core and the marker of authenticity (Wood, 1992), or as an always-in-process call and response to multiple others (Brown, 1992). These two approaches are not entirely distinct: I draw out their overlap to invite intersectionality and communication theory to become more intertwined.…”

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Reflexive voicing: a communicative approach to intersectional writing

Harris

2015

Qualitative Research

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Intersectionality has increasing traction in interdisciplinary inquiry, yet questions remain about qualitative intersectional methods. In particular, scholars have yet to consider how to write qualitative research in the service of intersectionality. Drawing upon my disciplinary training in communication studies, I argue that the field's theoretical grounding offers useful resources for advancing intersectional writing. Because communication theory posits that symbols both reflect and make reality, it resonates with an intersectional desire to simultaneously describe and transform the world through critical analysis. Using exemplars from communication scholars, I highlight how this interplay of approaches can advance identity politics and trouble identity categories. Furthermore this approach can help qualitative writers to link what some perceive to be distinct 'levels' of analysis. By discussing techniques for coupling reflexivity and voice, I make communication theory intelligible for intersectional writing and also invite communication studies to become more intersectional.

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"What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics

Cited by 118 publications

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A Black Feminist Analysis of Responses to War, Racism, and Repression

A Black Feminist Analysis of Responses to War, Racism, and Repression

Re-situating organizational knowledge: Violence, intersectionality and the privilege of partial perspective

Reflexive voicing: a communicative approach to intersectional writing

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