Five Faces of Oppression Essay Questions

1. How, according to Young, is the relationship between women and men or between racial minorities and whites similar to the relationship that Marx describes between workers and capitalists? Do you agree that women and minorities are really exploited in this Marxian sense? Why or why not?

2. Young claims that many groups suffer more than one form of oppression. Pick a group that you think is marginalized and state which of the five forms of oppression you think it suffers. Explain how it suffers those forms of oppression.

3. On Young’s view, does powerlessness come from a lack of respectability, or is it the other way around?