For comps, I read Clarie Moses’s “What’s In a Name?” On Writing the History of Feminism” this weekend. What is fascinating is that she discusses the history of the word feminism, what exactly do we mean when we use the term feminism to describe women’s organizing activities and is it legitimate to call someone a [...]
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On the History of the Word “Feminist” and How It is Used.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011The Removal of White Feminists
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Earlier in June Linda Hirshman wrote a piece in theWashington Post about the feminist movement is fracturingby paying too much attention to the “other”, and that the movementneeds to focus. Hirshman writes, A movement that uses intersectionality as a lens but banishes white, bourgeois, corporate older women might be a vehicle to glue what remains [...]
