Feminist society
Published on Feb 09, 2016
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LGBT History Month: Out and feminist
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Working Class "done good"
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Shaped by our context
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Echo chamber
Ideas are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an "enclosed" system
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Third World Feminism
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The tendency of Western feminism to see itself as feminism per se, and not to give due regard to indigenous movements is not unrelated to the tendency of those hostile to feminist movements in the Third World to characterise feminism as by definition "Western".
Women from communities of colour in Western contexts - diaspora
Photo by Peter Rivera
And not only am I talking about my sisters here in the United States-American Indian, Latina, Asian American, Arab American - I am also talking about women all over the globe. . . Third World feminism has enriched not just the women it applies to, but also political practice in general' - BARBARA SMITH
Photo by ξωαŋ ThΦt (slowly back...)
As Third World women we clearly have a different relationship to racism than white women, but all of us are born into an environment where racism exists. Racism affects all of our lives, but it is only white women who can "afford" to remain oblivious to these effects. The rest of us have had it breathing or bleeding down our necks.
CHERRIE MORGANA & GLORIA ANZALDUA
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"COLOUR BLIND" AND LIBERAL
"By and large within the women's movement today, white women focus upon their oppression as women and ignore differences of race, sexual preference, class and age. There is a pretense to a homogeneity of experience covered by the word sisterhood that does not in fact exist" - AUDRE LORDE
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"we cannot enter the struggle as objects in order later to become subjects" - bell hooks
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A feminist living and functioning in a third world country.
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"The oppressed third world woman as an object of rescue"
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The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
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"For many third world feminists, our consciousness is not a hot house bloom grown in the alien atmosphere of "foreign" ideas, but has its roots much closer to home" -
UMA NARAYAN
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We realise the importance of our own voice when we are silenced.
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The agency of the "Other" is effaced
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Saviours - a postcolonial language?
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"horizontal comradeship"
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To see the Third World feminist as intellectual collaborator and political ally on a wide range of issues that mark our common and fractured world.
UMA NARAYAN
Photo by HerryLawford
