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Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance Theoretical Perspectives on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism

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ISBN-10: 0072882433

ISBN-13: 9780072882438

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lisa Heldke, Peg O'Connor

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List price: $77.19
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 791
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Peg O'Connor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory (Penn State, 2002) and co-editor (with Naomi Scheman) of Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Penn State, 2002).��

Preface
Theorizing Oppression Introduction
Oppression: General Theories
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
On Psychological Oppression
Five Faces of Oppression
Oppression
Something About the Subject Makes it Hard to Name
overcoming white supremacy: a comment
Overt and Institutional Racism
Occupied America
Encountering the American Holocaust
Proposed Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1997)
Racial Formation
Oppression
Sexism
Towards a Definition of Patriarchy
Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination
Sexual Terrorism: The Social Control of Women
Oppression
Inequality and Difference
Oppression
Heterosexism Homophobia
Not for Lesbians Only
Homophobia
Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities
The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Summing Up: Axes of Oppression
Blaming the Victim
Peg O'Connor, If Everyone Is Responsible, Then Nobody Is
Theorizing Privilege
Introduction
Privilege: General Theories
Privilege: Expanding on Marilyn Frye's "Oppression"
Privilege
White Privilege
White Privilege and Male Privilege
The Pathology of Racism: A Conversation with Third World Wimmin
White Women, Race Matters
Privilege
How Men Have (a) Sex
Coming Apart
Privilege
Straight Talk: Male Heterosexual Privilege
Straight Out of the Closet: Men, Feminism, and Male Heterosexual Privilege
Complicating Theories of Oppression and Privilege Introduction
Challenging Dichotomous Thinking
Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race--In Theory
A Countryless Woman
On, The Other Colors of Whiteness: A Travelogue
Notes on the Conflation of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Sterling, The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough
Recognizing Multiple Axes of Oppression
Gender & Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought
Inequality in America
Black Macho Revisited
Report from the Bahamas
Being Both Privileged and Oppressed
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categoris of Analysis and Connection
Gay Sexism
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Theorizing Resistance Introduction
Resistance Strategy One: Education
Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community
Why We Read: Canon to the Right Of Me
Face to Face, Day to Day--Racism CR
Anti-Sexist Consciousness-Raising Groups for Men
Dangers with Men's Consciousness-Raising Groups
Resistance Strategy Two: Disloyalty Disobedience Traitorousness
Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity
Indian Humor
Resistance Strategy Three: Separatism and Identity Politics
Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come
Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance
Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement
Willful Virgin or Do You Have to Be a Lesbian to Be a Feminist?
Resistance Strategy Four: Revolution
Toward a Constructive Definition of Black Power
Revolution: It's Not Neat or Pretty or Quick
Feminist Revolution: Development Through Struggle
Toward the New Frontiers of Fairy Vision
Resistance Strategy Five: Coalition
Breaking a Cycle
Manning Marable, Beyond Racial Identity Politics: Toward a Liberation Theory for Multicultural Democracy
Standing Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy
Resistance Strategy Six: Neither Nor
La Consciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness
Our Third Gender Responsibilities
Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality Is not Enough
This Quiet Revolution
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