Sumários
Val Plumwood and ecofeminism
11 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Second part of the discussion on Val Plumwood's chapter. The construction of otherness as negation: a feminist critique of classical logic, namely the principle of non-contradiction. Application of classical logic to the linking postulates.
Crenshaw and intersectionality
6 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Crenshaw's article "Demarginalizing the intersection of sex and race" (second part). The role of Sojourner Truth’s speech, «Ain’t I a woman?» (1851) for Black feminism and the fight against patriarchal assumptions about womanhood. White feminism and the «authoritative universal voice». Separate-spheres literature: a case of «overgeneralization» of gender roles and its contradiction within Black communities following racist assumptions. Domestic work / labor and rape statutes: examples to illustrate the shortcomings of anti-discrimination laws.
Crenshaw and intersectionality
4 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Crenshaw's article "Demarginalizing the intersection of sex and race". Intersectionality and the legal context: the presentation of three legal cases that highlight the limits of anti-discrimination law in addressing the experience of Black women. The single-axis frame and its limits compared to an intersectional approach. Rethinking discrimination through analogy: the metaphor of the intersection and the metaphor of the basement. Issues of privilege within the discriminated groups (White feminism).
Bettcher, "Evil deceivers and make-believers"
29 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Moving from the murder of Gwen Araujo in 2002 in California, Bettcher "examines the stereotype that transgender people are "deceivers" and the stereotype's role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence. The stereotype derives from a contrast between gender presentation (appearance) and sexed body (concealed reality). Because gender presentation represents genital status, Bettcher argues, people who “misalign”the two are viewed as deceivers. The author shows how this system of gender presentation as genital representation is part of larger sexist and racist systems of violence and oppression." (Abstract of the article)
Owens, "Torture, Sex, and Military Orientalism"
27 Novembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Today, we discussed the topic of patriarchy through Owens' article "Torture, Sex, and Military Orientalism": the text "revisits the debate about recent American torture practices, particularly the use of discredited anthropological texts to validate long-held Orientalist assumptions about the sexual vulnerability of Muslim males. Such practices are placed in an historical context of older imperial constructions of sexually deviant Muslims as well as of more general forms of gendered and sexual subordination required for war." (From the abstract of the article)