White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies

by Peggy McIntosh

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D. is an American feminist and anti-racism activist, the associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, and a speaker and the founder and co-director of the National S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).

McIntosh is most famous for authoring the 1988 essay "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies."

Reviews

[Joel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just about the stupidest piece of drivel I've ever read.

At least the author acknowledges that her analysis is not scholarly, which is readily obvious, because her assertions have no basis in fact, and are instead a product of her personal observations, i.e. imagination.

The paper could be summed up in the following excerpt:
"They may say they will work to improve women's status... but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's"

That's exactly it. The author is not at all interested in lifting up the status of women and minorities; she wants to bring everyone's status down to the lowest common denominator. I believe they tried that in Russia about a century ago. Didn't work out too well.

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely holds up. Surprisingly well in fact.

[shaball]

i fucking hate sociology

[Darrel Creary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for audiences trying to unlearn their biases👱👱‍♀️ but also great for POCs who want to dissect the opposite spectrum of thought.

[Momodu Kamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author did so well in this article

[Kuluk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insightful, easy to read and grasp - def recommend reading it, it's quite short (I read it in less than 2hrs)