Lesbians and White Privilege

Interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and identity are three overarching themes that connect the chapters in this interdisciplinary compilation. The book includes contributions from scholars in cultural studies, social work, English, psychology, anthropology, and education and uses empirical research and personal reflections to explore the critical significance of intersectionality in understanding privilege and oppression within larger social systems and institutional structures. By taking whiteness seriously, the chapters challenge, recognize, and question it, with the intention of encouraging explicit antiracist efforts and dismantling structures and hierarchies that enable only some to speak as 'just humans.'

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 102 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and identity are the three overarching themes that unite the chapters in this interdisciplinary compilation. Contributions from scholars in cultural studies, social work, English, psychology, anthropology, and education make up this comprehensive collection. Essays include empirical research, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as personal reflections and interpretations. Each chapter emphasizes the critical importance of intersectionality, locating privilege and oppression within larger social systems and institutional structures, as an "interlocking matrix of relationships."

These chapters challenge, recognize, and question whiteness, with the ultimate goal of encouraging us to do the same in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines. By taking whiteness seriously, we can begin to make explicit antiracist efforts, dismantling the structures and hierarchies that enable only some to speak as "just humans."

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367695064