Multicultural Feminisms

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Multicultural Feminisms

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Identity Politics

• Women of Color Lesbians
• based upon differences from white, heterosexual,
  mainstream society
• Their fundamental concerns are the same

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• In this chapter we review Group of minority,
  black feminist, and gender studies some
  important lesbian feminist
• Latina and Chicana, Asian American, Native
  American? have own cultural issues
• Feminist of color recognize the ways woman and
  race are both constructs in society

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Black Feminist

• Reject the traditional Western literary canon and
  targets its exclusion of black women
• They say that the majority of feminist wants to
  be members of power structure
• counted as men, share the bounties, equal
  wages, other social rights.

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• Black/ Lesbian feminist see heterosexual white
  woman ?more common with men
• Maggie Humm p.232 p2 L14
• Michael Awkward makes black feminists concerns
  clearer
• black women writers? relationship of
• motherhood
• different from ?relationships of fatherhood,
  with the traditional Oedipal conflicts

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More interest in black feminism

• Black feminismproblematic
• Alice Walkerreplace feminist? womanist
• As in Everyday Use? female creativity was
  defined as early folk arts like quilting
• Alice walker looks to her own literary mother
  Zora Neale Hurtson
• Slave/ Captivity narrativeold American forms of
  discourse.

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Related among woman in color

• The area of postcolonial studies
• Gayatry Chakavorty Spivak examines the effects of
  political independence upon subaltern or
  subproleterian woman in third world countries
• Clearing the difference could depend upon class
  and political structure