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an uneasy history of white and black women in the feminist movement
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Breines, Winifred
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, tweede feministische golf, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwenbewegingen, etniciteit, sociale klasse, identiteit, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an .integrated movement remains a sensitive and contested issue. In this book Winifred Breines explores why a racially integrated women's liberation movement did not develop in the United States. .Drawing on flyers, letters, newspapers, journals, institutional records, and oral histories, Breines dissects how white and black women's participation in the movements of the 1960s led to the development of separate feminisms. Herself a participant in these events, Breines attempts to reconcile the explicit professions of anti-racism by white feminists with the accusations of mistreatment, ignorance, and neglect by African American feminists. Many radical white women, unable to see beyond their own experiences and idealism, often behaved in unconsciously or abstractly racist ways, despite their passionately anti-racist stance and hard work to develop an interracial movement. As Breines argues, however, white feminists' racism is not the only reason for the absence of an interracial feminist movement. Segregation, black women's interest in the Black Power movement, class differences, and the development of identity politics with an emphasis on 'difference' were all powerful factors that divided white and black women. By the late 1970s and early 1980s white feminists began to understand black feminism's call to include race and class in gender analyses, and black feminists began to give white feminists some credit for their political work. Despite early setbacks, white and black radical feminists eventually developed cross-racial feminist political projects.
black, Chicana, and white feminist movements in America's second wave
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Roth, Benita
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5813 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwenbewegingen, etniciteit, mensenrechten, tweede feministische golf, Afrikaans, Spaans, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, 1970-1979
- Description
- Roth investigated the reason why very few women of colour belonged to the feminist organisations. Roth explains that although Black and Chicana women shared a common interest in feminism with white women during the 1960's and 1970's, they pursued it apart from white women because of their distinct histories and cultures. The three groups of women that Roth researched differed not only on a socio-economic level, but also in the way that they organised their movements and in the ideologies that they embraced. She also noted that Black and Chicana women were inclined to link their cause for gender equality with demands for racial and ethnic parity.
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