White feminism
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"No moral magisterium will make me endorse a law conceived by and for white feminists."--Whites, Jews, and Us (2016) by Houria Bouteldja, p. 73 "As Hurtado (1989, p. 841) noted, in the nineteenth century prominent white feminists were married to white men, while black feminists were owned by white men. In a racist patriarchy, white men's 'need' for racially pure offspring positioned free and unfree women in incompatible, asymmetrical symbolic and social spaces." --Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (1991) by Donna Haraway |
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White feminism is a form of feminism that focuses on the struggles of white women while failing to address distinct forms of oppression faced by ethnic minority women and women lacking other privileges. This approach was predominantly visible in the first waves of feminism which generally centered around the empowerment of white middle-class females in Western societies.
While the term white feminism and debate around the topic are relatively recent, its critics date back to the beginning of the feminist movement, especially in the United States. By theorizing the overlapping systems of oppression in society (dependent on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, etc.), the development of Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality has recently galvanized critics of white feminism, described as restrictive and discriminatory.
