These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened or ended. Denials which amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages which men gain from women’s disadvantages. They may say they will work to improve women’s status, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can’t or won’t support the idea of lessening men’s. 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 over-privileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group. These articles may not be electronically posted except by the National SEED Project. McIntosh's lists must not be taken out of their autobiographical contexts. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.įor use in a bound volume there will be a copyright fee. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
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