Abstract
Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
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Privilege (computing)DisadvantagedWhite privilegeWork (physics)Subject (documents)CurriculumUnpackingRest (music)SociologyWhite (mutation)Gender studiesPolitical scienceLawPedagogyEngineeringRacismMedicineLibrary scienceComputer science
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Peggy McIntosh
(2019).
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1989) 1.
, 49
(2)
, 29-34.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351133791-4
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- 10.4324/9781351133791-4