http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/ | social justice | higher education | technology | Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/#comment-22628 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:27:12 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/#comment-22628 [...] If alcohol issues “may be seen as a bar” in Frye’s “‘birdcage’ analogy of oppression,” how exactly then does alcoholism fit on the list of oppressions on the poster. Oppressions are the cage and the bars hold the cage together. Why is alcoholism, a bar, given the same status/importance, as oppressions which make up the cage? [...] […] If alcohol issues “may be seen as a bar” in Frye’s “‘birdcage’ analogy of oppression,” how exactly then does alcoholism fit on the list of oppressions on the poster. Oppressions are the cage and the bars hold the cage together. Why is alcoholism, a bar, given the same status/importance, as oppressions which make up the cage? […]

]]> http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/#comment-19228 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:04:08 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/#comment-19228 [...] Besides taking very kind notice of my article in The Freeman, Roderick Long (2008-01-18) and Micha Ghertner (2008-01-14) each also mention the epigraph that I included — a long quotation on the experience of oppression by the radical lesbian feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye. The quotation is one of my favorite passages from her essay Oppression, in The Politics of Reality. I had originally hoped to include more of it, but the epigraph had to be trimmed back in the interest of space. The full version would have been: [...] […] Besides taking very kind notice of my article in The Freeman, Roderick Long (2008-01-18) and Micha Ghertner (2008-01-14) each also mention the epigraph that I included — a long quotation on the experience of oppression by the radical lesbian feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye. The quotation is one of my favorite passages from her essay Oppression, in The Politics of Reality. I had originally hoped to include more of it, but the epigraph had to be trimmed back in the interest of space. The full version would have been: […]

]]> http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/#comment-12950 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:34:37 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2006/01/23/oppression-and-the-bird-cage/#comment-12950 [...] Continue reading about institutionalized oppression: The Common Elements of Oppressions Oppression and the Bird Cage Tags: anti racist, Class, class privilege, discrimination, feminism, gender, LGBT, Race, racism, sexism, Social Justice, white privilege [...] […] Continue reading about institutionalized oppression: The Common Elements of Oppressions Oppression and the Bird Cage Tags: anti racist, Class, class privilege, discrimination, feminism, gender, LGBT, Race, racism, sexism, Social Justice, white privilege […]

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