Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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so that all people, especially women, could reclaim their r...
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in the ...
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From our peripheral position in the movement we saw t...
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radicalism of feminist ideology was being undermined by wome...
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lip service to revolutionary goals, were prim...
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with gaining entrance into the capitalist patriarchal...
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made women’s liberation synonymous with women obtaining
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the right to fully participate in the very system they identified as oppressive.
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Their anger was not merely a response to sex...
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It was an expression of their jealousy and envy of white men...
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of power in the system while they were denied access t...
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appropriation of feminist ideology by elitist, ra...
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We were unable to usurp leadership positi...
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movement so that we could spread an authentic message of f...
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We could not even get a hearing at women’s groups because they were organized and c...
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Along with politically aware white wo...
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feminists, began to fe...
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organized feminist struggle rea...
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We dropped out of groups, weary of hearing talk about wom...
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could change the world when we had not cha...
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Some black women formed “black feminist” groups which resembled in almost every way ...
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I have been working to destroy the psychology of
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dominance that permeates Western culture and shapes female/male sex roles and I have
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advocated reconstruction of U.S. society based on human rather t...
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Initially I believed that the women who were active in feminist activities were concerned
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about sexist oppression and its impact on women as a collective group.
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But I became disillusioned as I saw various ...
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appropriating feminism to serve their own opp...
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it was evident that eliminating sexist oppression was not the primary concern.
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While their rallying cry was sexist oppression, they showed little concern
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about the status of women as a collective group...
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primarily interested in making feminism a forum for the expression of their own self-c...
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Not once did they entertain the possibility that their concerns might not represent the c...
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clung to the hope that increased particip...
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from different races and classes in feminist activit...
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re-evaluation of feminism, radical reconstruction of feminist ideolo...
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of a new movement that would more adequately address the concerns o...
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Yet as I moved from one women’s group to an...
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offer a different perspective, I met with hostilit...
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as “their” movement and resisted any efforts by non-white women to critique, challenge...
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remained imprisoned in the very structures they hoped to change.
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the women’s movement we envisioned would have a transformative effect on U.S. culture has not emerged.
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the hierarchical pattern of sex-race relationships already e...
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capitalist patriarchy merely assumed a different for...
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Women liberationists did not invite a wholistic analysis...
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in society that would take into consideration the varied aspect...
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