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Sex Lex: Creating A Discourse, Gerald Torres
Understanding Patriarchy As An Expression Of Whiteness: Insights From The Chicana Movement, Gerald Torres, Katie Pace
Understanding Patriarchy As An Expression Of Whiteness: Insights From The Chicana Movement, Gerald Torres, Katie Pace
Gerald Torres
Race, of course, is but one aspect of the self or of political or social categorization. Class and gender relations (in addition to other considerations) also combine to structure social relations and individual consciousness. One of the questions that feminists like Catharine MacKinnon and Marylyn Frye asked early on was whether patriarchy has a color. This is not as simple or as odd a question as it might first appear. What this question asks is whether the pattern of racial management is structurally similar to or part of the system of gender management, and vice versa. This Essay examines this …