Intersectionality
The Definition of Intersectionality.
What is a framework for conceptualizing a person, group of people, or social problem as affected by a number of discriminations and disadvantages?
The definition of Standpoint Theory
What is a feminist theoretical perspective that argues that knowledge stems from social position?
What is a mode of knowledge production which uses language, subjectivity, social processes and institutions to understand existing power relations and to identify areas and strategies for change?
The positivist views of emotion (The Dumb View).
What are the physical feelings or involuntary bodily movements that typically accompany them and the subduing of physiological function or movement.
Those who are Intersectional.
Who is everyone?
"Some feminist scholars insist that intersectionality refers to all subject positions (... race, gender, sexuality, class, ect.)..."
Achieving Standpoint requires this.
What is scientific work in order to see beneath the ideological surface of social relations we’ve all come to accept as natural?
The assertion of Poststructuralist Theory
What is that one’s sense of self is constituted in the same process through which one learns language, and it is reconstituted each time one thinks, speaks, or acts?
The two components of emotion in Cognitivist accounts.
What is an affective or feeling component and a cognition that interprets/ identifies the feelings.
The person who coined the term Intersectionality.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Important Theorists of Standpoint Theory
Who are Dorothy Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock, Alison Jaggar, Hilary Rose, and Sandra Harding?
Important theorists in Poststructuralist Theory.
Who are Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Sandra Bartky, Lata Mani, and Judith Butler?
Definition of Assemblage.
What is an awkward translation of the French agencement. Means design, layout, organization, arrangement, and relations (focus on relations, relations of patterns.)?
Purpose of Intersectionality.
What is 1) Overthrows race/gender binaries to theorize identity on a more complex level; 2) Provides vocabulary to respond to critiques of identity politics; and 3)Invites people to come to terms with legacy of exclusions of multiply marginalized people from activism?
The purpose of Standpoint Theory
What is picking out and amplifying the liberatory possibilities contained in the experience./ Allowing analysis of a problem through the lens of experience?
Focus of Poststructuralist Feminists.
What is the operations of power in any/every articulation of a feminist subjectivity. Knowing and asserting that notions of a stable gender identity or stable unity among women involves an exclusion of some kind. (AKA the ways that power relations shape gendered social categories and subjectivities).
Affects are considered to be ___.
What are innate and universal responses that create consciousness and direct cognition?
The short fall of Intersectionality in application.
What is leaving unexamined cross-boarder dynamics and processes beyond the local level of analysis that are integral to unfolding of local processes, especially over there. (Falls short of potential)?
The contentions carried by standpoint. (i.e The 5 claims related to posting of levels.) pg. 267
What are 1) Material life not only structures but sets limits on understanding of social relations, 2) if material life is structured in fundamentally opposing ways for two groups, one can expect that the vision of each will represent an inversion of the other, 3) the vision of the ruling class structures the material relationships forced on all parties, 4) vision of the oppressed group must be struggled for and represents an achievement, and 5) the understanding of the oppressed points beyond the present and carries a historically liberatory role?
Groups among which Poststructuralist theories were developed.
What are literary critics and media/ cultural studies scholars.
Affect Theory definition
What is the idea that feelings and emotions are the primary motives for human behavior, with people desiring to maximize their positive feelings and minimize their negative ones?