Peggy McIntosh
| Peggy McIntosh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Margaret Vance Means November 7, 1934 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Alma mater |
Radcliffe College, BA Harvard University, MA and PhD |
| Occupation | Senior Research Associate of the Wellesley College Centers for Women Founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity) Director of the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project Co-founder 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 privileges, privilege systems, phases of curricular revision, and feelings of fraudulence. |
| Website | WCW Bio SEED Bio |
Peggy McIntosh is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and Senior Research Associate of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for thirty years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, and professional development of teachers.
In 1988, she published the ground-breaking article White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work on Women’s Studies. This analysis, and its 1989 shorter form White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States. The papers rely on personal examples of unearned advantage as McIntosh says she experienced in the 1970s and 1980s. McIntosh encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages and disadvantages as parts of immense and overlapping systems of power. Her better known works include Feeling Like a Fraud Parts I-III (1985, 1989, 2000); Interactive Phases of Curricular Re-Vision: A Feminist Perspective (1983); Interactive Phases of Curricular and Personal Re-Vision with Regard to Race (1990).
McIntosh was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New Jersey, where she attended public schools in Ridgewood and Summit, before attending George School in Newtown, PA. After studying English at Radcliffe College and at University College, London, she became a teacher at Brearley, an all-girls school in New York City, where she taught an “all-male curriculum.” McIntosh went on to receive her Ph.D. at Harvard University, where she wrote her dissertation on Emily Dickinson’s Poem's About Pain. She has held teaching positions at what was then Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in Washington, D.C., University of Durham in England and the University of Denver, where she was tenured and experimented with “radical teaching methods in English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies.” With Dr. Nancy Hill, McIntosh cofounded The Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, which gave "money and a room of one's own" to ten women each year for thirty five years who were not supported by other institutions and were working on projects in the arts and many other fields.
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