"White feminism" refers to a form of feminism that primarily focuses on the issues and experiences of white women, often excluding the perspectives and struggles of women of color. It fails to acknowledge and address the intersectionality of various forms of discrimination and marginalization that affect women from different racial backgrounds.
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It won't make you angry if you're a man and it won't make you feel alienated
from white feminism if you're a woman of color.
This encapsulation, moreover, has social roots in the history
of white feminism in America.
What I read was an account
of white feminism, which is a particular kind of feminism that fails to be intersectional (a theory by Critical Race Theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw which analyzes how different types of oppression often intersect).
Following calls by Seattle University student groups for a «physical space for healing,» the school's Office of Multicultural Affairs hosted an event aiming to deconstruct «
white feminism.»
White feminism is problematic in its exclusivity and should be avoided, and is perhaps why it feels wrong.
But
white feminism is not the only type of feminism — intersectional feminism (called this by women who live an intersectional life of racism and sexism, and other - isms) is something I encourage you look into and read more about.
Lady Bird has been called out by some publications for featuring purely «
white feminism» while some conservatives were put off Steven Spielberg's movie due to the timely comment on Donald Trump's negative view of the press.
Topics like intersectionality and sex positivity are also broached, though, at times the novel falls to
the White Feminism tropes it attempts to evade.
The project wishes to extend its scope beyond Western,
white feminism and to trace the beginnings of a transnational and intersectional perspective in Belgian feminism and beyond.