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Women's Realities, Women's Choices : An Introduction to Women's Studies (Hunter College Women's Studies Collective)
by Hunter College Women's Studies Collective

25 pages with references to oppressed in the Paperback edition (1995):

1. on Page 30:
"... fear of women in social conditions (Ember, 1978). Some conclude that fear of women is greatest where women are most oppressed. Expressed fear of women may or may not be universal; it is certainly variable in its manifestation. Venerated Madonnas While ..."

2. on Page 37:
"... color. Such an omission can never be benign, as Patricia Hill Collins notes, since suppressing the knowledge produced by any oppressed group makes it easier for dominant groups to rule because the seeming absence of an independent consciousness in the oppressed ..."

3. on Page 76:
"... possible. But socialist feminists also recognize that traditional socialism has failed to understand the specific ways in which women are oppressed as women and not merely as workers (Gould, 1976; Sargent, 1981; Jaggar, 1983). Socialist feminists emphasize that the traditional gender ..."

4. on Page 78:
"... women, for example, all have some interests in common with the men of our groups because we have also been oppressed as a group. Some feminists consider themselves radical because they see the overthrow of gender domination as the most fundamental ..."

5. on Page 151:
"... and community held by a cultural and ethnic group are imposed upon one's attitudes and responses to lesbianism. For racially oppressed groups, lesbianism may seem like a betrayal of our ethnic community. Among African Americans and Native Americans, for example, reproductive ..."

6. on Page 176:
"... do not conform to the historical experience of many within the dominant group but also exclude absolutely the realities of oppressed women who are exploited by the power of the dominant group. This has never been expressed more clearly than in ..."

7. on Page 180:
"... racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes, those that apply to gender promote subordination . Women may be in triple jeopardy, being oppressed on the basis of gender, race or ethnicity, and class. As a result of being discriminated against and excluded because ..."

8. on Page 181:
"... describes these social relations , and reflects the image of reality held by the dominant group in society. Women in oppressed groups, whose sense of ourselves and the dominant group may differ radically from the stereotyped versions offered by the dominant ..."

9. on Page 182:
"... to the resources by which to shape what we can do and how. Individuals and groups in subordinated positions are oppressed by the force of the dominant culture, and in the end, this process places real limits on self-realization. As women ..."

10. on Page 184:
"... others form a base of power that The Psychology of Racism in White Feminists The fact is, white wimmin are oppressed; they have been "colonized" by white boys, just as third world people have. Even when white wimmin "belonged" to white ..."

11. on Page 193:
"... order that promotes the relationship. Resistance, like the Black Power movement of the 1960s, fought back against the negative stereotypes. Oppressed groups find it difficult to express their own versions of themselves, however; they are "muted" by the dominant discourse. Women, ..."

12. on Page 195:
"... constrain access to resources? How does gender factor into these identities? 4. If society teaches negative stereotypes to members of oppressed groups, how can members of such groups support each other and recapture self-esteem? 5. What specific projects in your area, ..."

13. on Page 250:
"... almost never enough to pay the actual costs. From the figures given above, it is clear that the most economically oppressed ethnic groups in this country are those experiencing the most severe negative economic effects of divorce. However, economic setbacks may ..."

14. on Page 306:
"... women of Ladyland in that there is no trade conducted with other countries if the women in those countries are oppressed . Other utopias we consider challenge the institution of marriage and the practices of childrearing; in both cases, the solution ..."

15. on Page 326:
"... ascribed to groups of people by virtue of race, religion, ethnic origin, or gender, it has been difficult for the oppressed group to gain sufficient power to alter the status quo. This pat- 326 ..."

16. on Page 331:
"... of behavior. But in simple societies, and often in new religions or the religions of the very poor and the oppressed, these specialists are like ordinary people in most other ways. Women or men, they have to do what others do ..."

17. on Page 366:
"... children to read and write? Why should the dominant group in any society fear education in the hands of an oppressed subgroup? Does literacy bring power? UNESCO defines literacy as "the ability to read and write a sentence in daily life" ..."

18. on Page 440:
"... care of all the "dirty work," unless there are lowlier aides and orderlies to assume these tasks. That nurses are oppressed may be less obvious, but equally true. Nurses are treated as inferiors by physicians, often addressed by first names by ..."

19. on Page 453:
"... in the Later Years, edited by Lois Grau and Ida Susser. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1989,105-19. Roberts, Susan Jo. "Oppressed Group Behavior: Implications for Nursing." Advances in Nursing Science (July 1983):21-30. Rodin, Judith, and Ickovics, Jeannette. "Women's Health: Review and ..."

20. on Page 543:
"... power structure and its victims and have acted on behalf of children, the poor, workers, and other groups of people oppressed by the system. Economically advantaged women have assisted women from different social classes, and women in all social classes have ..."


21. on Page 552:
"... to such rhetoric as the liberation ethic, which holds that men as well as women have deplorable lives and are oppressed by the present structure. Thus the system must be transformed to provide humane lives for all (Freeman, 1976). Some feminists ..."

22. on Page 558:
"... discipline of feminism. They enable students to become aware of what women have accomplished and of how we have been oppressed. Once we become conscious of the issues feminists are raising, the world may never appear the same as it did ..."

23. from Front Matter:
"... are working to replace ignorance and fantasy with views that have greater validity. Realizing that discriminatory laws and customs have oppressed women, that this oppression is disgraceful and harmful to all human beings, and that we can through our persistent and ..."

24. from Front Matter:
"... it difficult to arrive at a consensus. Those of us who were brought up as or find ourselves members of oppressed groups may find it particularly difficult to see what we have in common with those whom we have learned to ..."

25. from Front Matter:
"... of our gender who have suffered other types of oppression. And those of us who have been part of groups oppressed for reasons other than gender may have to face the fact that sexism exists in our own group. Fighting discrimination ..."

Such repetition, 25 times just in the intro, is oppressive in itself. It is an hypnotic mantra. The reader has little explanation of what the oppression is that is being spoken off and no time to consider the scope or depth or appropriateness of the word before it is repeated again several times. The objective of the repetition is to build up a resentment and an anger, a sense of victimhood without allowing the reader the opportunity to determine if it is true or not.