Keywords: Feminist Studies, Race, Multiracial Feminism
The article “Theorizing Difference from Multiracial feminism” something that sticks out to me are the racial profiling that was done back in the day. The quote that stuck out to me is ” U.S. multiracial feminism encompasses several emergent perspectives developed primarily by women of color: African Americans, Latinas , Asian Americans, and Native Americans, women whose analyses are shaped by their unique perspectives as “outsiders within”-marginal intellectuals whose social locations provide them with a particular perspective on self and society. Although U.S. women of color represent many races and ethnic backgrounds-with different histories and cultures-our feminisms cohere in their treatment of race as a basic social division, a structure of power, a focus of political struggle, and hence a fundamental force in shaping women’s and men’s lives,”(Zinn, Bonnie, pg.324). I agree with this quote because they shouldn’t be called outsiders based on the color of their skin and that women were not equally treated as good as the men were for they later on say say in this prompt. ” But socialist feminism’s concept of capitalist patriarchy, with its focus on women’s unpaid (reproductive) labor in the home failed to address racial differences in the organization of reproductive labor. As feminists of color have argued, “reproductive labor has divided along racial as well as gender lines, and the specific characteristics have varied regionally and changed over time as capitalism has reorganized” (Zinn, Bonnie, pg.325). Which to me this is just mind blowing they wanted women to carry the children’s but no paid time off due to labor that is mind blowing.
Keywords: Gender and Western Cultures
The article “The Prism Gender” this articles starts off explaining that in western culture, people grow up learning that there are only two genders, male and female. The western culture has developed what is called the quote on quote pink and blue syndrome in the article it stats that. “We are taught that a real woman is female -bodied , feminine , and heterosexual ; a real man is male-bodied , masculine , and heterosexual ; and any deviation or variation is strange , unnatural , and potentially dangerous” (Valentine, pg.3). I’m gonna say that this is true, this is the way of life but I will also kind of tie this with our song of this week “Androgynous by The Replacements” . In the song they say “Mirror image, see no damage See no evil at all Kewpie dolls and urine stalls Will be laughed at the way you’re laughed at now”. I personally feel like they are talking about gender revolution in the 1980’s which is something that wasn’t talked about much during that time, and that it was okay no matter what or who your liked same gender to trans-gender that people should respect it. I looked up the word Androgynous and it basically means the opposite roles of the western culture. What I mean is that men had women tendencies and women want to be more masculine if that makes any sense.
Question: Who are we to say that someone cant be accepted because of who or what they love in their peroneal life ?
