| Peggy McIntosh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret McIntosh |
| Occupation | Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women Founder and Co-Director 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 College Center for Research on Women |
| Known for | Writing on white and male privileges |
| Website | |
| http://www.wcwonline.org/content/view/653/214/ | |
Peggy McIntosh is an American feminist and anti-racist activist, the associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women,[1] and a speaker and the founder and co-director of the National S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).[2]
McIntosh is most famous for authoring the 1988 essay "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies."[3] This analysis and its shorter form, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,"[4] "have been instrumental in putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of gender, race and sexuality".[5]