· 2019· Book chapter
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1989) 1
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Short summary
Men often deny or resist acknowledging male privilege, even when they concede women's disadvantages, protecting this unearned advantage from being addressed or dismantled.
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Key points
- Men often grant women's disadvantages but resist acknowledging their own overprivilege.
- Denials surrounding male advantages act as taboos, protecting privilege.
- The concept of an 'invisible knapsack' represents unearned male advantages.
- This resistance prevents male privilege from being acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
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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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