ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates, under the set-up of citizenship, the intersectional and intertwined processes of sexism, racism, classism, heteronormativity, settler colonialism, and imperialism are contorted into separate, competing, anti-intersectional epistemologies. It offers a different story, a troubling one, about how citizenship actually functions, not just in Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) circles, but in all realms relevant to social justice. Citizenship, as an ethic and end-goal for political change, has infiltrated and contorted the interdiscipline of WGS. The emphasis here on “interdiscipline” is purposeful, as there are interesting ways in which disciplinary priorities have directly impacted how citizenship has been taken up in WGS. Feminist political theory and women’s history, with their fixations on feminist appeals to or rejections from a fully inclusive citizenship, are used throughout our courses and programs. WGS continues to reproduce violence against non-white, Indigenous communities, through the various slippages, presumptions, and omissions in our syllabi, curriculum, and even research.
