Multicultural Feminisms

1. Multicultural Feminisms 9653030 田御

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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. More interest in black feminism • Black feminism—problematic • Alice Walker—replace 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 narrative—old American forms of discourse.

7. 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