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Lecture: "Can Women be Sexists?"

When: March 13, 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM Add to Calendar
Tagged: Women's History Month
Filed Under: Activities

Dr. Stephen J. Sullivan, Philosophy Department
Hendricks Hall, Room 200 

"It's a commonplace in feminist theory (e.g, in Allan G. Johnson's important book The Gender Knot:  Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy) that sexism is so tied up in male supremacy that it makes little sense to speak of women being sexist. This view parallels the widespread notion in sociology of race that it makes little sense to speak of racial minorites being racist. Speaking as a liberal feminist I find both claims to be highly implausible and poorly supported. In my talk I will focus on the issue of sexism."