POLS20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intersectionality, Bell Hooks, Black Feminism
28 Jul 2018
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Has it always included all women: why did (some) black women leave. That gender equality is important, but that non white women have experienced other kinds of discrimination (race as well as class) that present different experiences and challenges to equality (this is an intersectional analysis) These women who started identifying as black feminists in the 1960s were also simultaneously involved with other racial causes such as civil rights. Black nationalism and the black panthers (angela davis being a key example). The women who would become the black feminists felt disillusions with both mainstream feminism and black activists movements: they felt the two concerns were inextricably linked. Bell hooks (in her book feminist theory: from margin to center goes so far as to argue that white feminists had contempt for the concerns for black women) For black women, survival and liberation are concern which, largely, have never impacted on women as a hole.
