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- Title: Women at the Boundaries (Race and Gender Issues in Universities) (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 290 KB
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Introduction Feminist authors have discussed the intersections between race and gender (1) and the connections between race, gender, and class, (2) as well as multiple intersections. (3) Intersections are examined within the context of the relations of power and the affect on knowledge. (4) Intersectionality considerations also raises the issues of patriarchy within the institution, and how this affects possibilities of change and empowerment. Race and gender are subjects that are often silenced in the discourses of higher education institutions, whereby there is an avoidance of the issues of race and gender, because they are seen as issues that do not count. (5) While some of the literature has challenged dominant discourses of patriarchy within institutions, I suggest that the intersection of race and gender has rarely been taken up within higher education analysis and praxis. In everyday terms, there is also difficulty for racialized women to speak out because of personal vulnerability and the dynamics of power. (6) Mechanisms of power are evidenced in practices of silencing and having voice.