Black and White Feminism

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Black and White Feminism

• Lecture 8

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Part 1 The Debate Whos movement, whos
liberation?

• Historically black women excluded
• Agenda set by white middle class women

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Part 2 bell hooks and Slavery

• - Slavery white and black slave women
• - Relationship of Envy, Hatred and Desire
• -Sexuality and desire
• - Black women object of hatred

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Part 3 American black feminism

• 1920s and 1960s Black American women and white
  feminism
• North vs South blacks in or out?

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Part 4 Black US Womens resistance

• 60s and 80s Black Only Movements
• Black concerns and issues
• Outside white feminist movement

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Part 5 1960s - white US womens guilt

• 1960s white American women and the civil rights
  movement
• Guilty for ignoring black women
• Not enough!

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Part 6 The European context post-colonial
studies

• Support racist structures of patriarchy?
• Challenge racist structures?
• Important for understanding race, class and
  gender

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Part 7 Feminism in the UK 1960s -1980s

• Mobilise around Powellism
• OWAAD The Organisation of Women of Asian and
  African Descent
• Unite around shared culture?
• Whose the most oppressed?

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Part 8 Is sisterhood Global?

• 1960s Radical Feminists
• Shared biology
• Critique
• Socialist Feminists
• Public Private - Shared subordination

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Part 9 Post-Modern Black Feminists

• No universal female identity
• Hazel Carby Avtar Brah
• No Grand theories
• Look at particular experiences
• Class gender and sexuality
• Women can create alliances

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Iranian women Is Subordination and liberation
Universal?
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1950s US Housewife
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Colonial Indian WomanMy body is my nation
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Business women Coalition and Diversity?
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Part 10 White Women, Race Matters

• Lack of Attention to white ethnicity in the
  feminist literature
• White women live their lives through race
• Racism not just a black issue
• White power and gender