More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
concomitant
Indeed, it might sound absurd or obscene to some readers. Middle-class het white women (in particular) have rightly been criticized for doing feminism in ways that illicitly over-generalize, even universalize, on the basis of our own experiences. (Audre Lorde’s [1979, repr. 2007] “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” is a justly famous call to action in this connection.) But, although my limitations will have me daubing at the small corner of the overall canvas I can reach without overextending myself and inevitably (as opposed to potentially) making a mess of it, I do
...more
But in a way, I do want in particular to understand what white women face at the hands of white men not only because it is a moral problem in its own right, though that is part of it, but because I believe it feeds directly into moral problems still more serious: the misogyny faced by more vulnerable women, in being, for example, nonwhite, trans, and otherwise less privileged.
The incident began with Bannon getting angry with his then wife, Mary Louise Piccard, for being too noisy. She had gotten up to feed their seven-month-old twin daughters. She made some noise in the process and woke up Bannon, who had fallen asleep on the sofa. It was New Year’s Day, 1996 (Gold and Bresnahan 2016). They had been married seven months earlier, three days before the twins were born, after amniocentesis confirmed that they were “normal” (the condition for Bannon’s going through with the marriage)
I propose taking sexism to be the branch of patriarchal ideology that justifies and rationalizes a patriarchal social order, and misogyny as the system that polices and enforces its governing norms and expectations. So sexism is scientific; misogyny is moralistic. And a patriarchal order has a hegemonic quality.
priori
posteriori.
