Peggy McIntosh | |
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| Born | Margaret Vance Means November 7, 1934 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) University College London |
| Occupation | Senior Research Scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women
Founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity) Director of the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute Consulting Editor to Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women |
| Employer | Wellesley Centers for Women Wellesley College |
| Known for | Writing on white and male privilege, privilege systems, five interactive phases of curricular revision, and feelings of fraudulence |
| Website | WCW Bio SEED Bio |
Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and senior research scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).[1] She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, hierarchies in education and society, and professional development of teachers.
In 1988, she published the article "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies".[2] This analysis, and its shorter version, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989),[2] pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States. Both papers rely on personal examples of unearned advantage that McIntosh says she experienced in her lifetime, especially from 1970 to 1988. McIntosh encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages and disadvantages as parts of immense and overlapping systems of power. Her recent book, On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning: Selected Essays 1981-2019,[3] is a collection of her essays published over her career.
- ^ SEED Project website, at Wellesley Centers for Women.
- ^ a b "National SEED Project - Peggy McIntosh's White Privilege Papers" (PDF). National SEED Project. Wellesley Centers for Women. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
- ^ McIntosh, Peggy (2020). On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning: Selected Essays 1981-2019. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0815354116.