Word: genders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feminist fascists, first of all, want gender purity. Women must shake off the ideologies and mores of masculine kultur. Secondly, they yearn for "A Place in the Sun," a separate but equal set of values for women. Women must be respected not just as equal persons, but simply and existentially for being women. Women must be represented and treated positively. Here, pornography is an obvious target. Ideally, men should look past a women's potential for a night of funzies, to the real qualities that make a woman a woman...
Published to coincide with the final U.N. conference on women in Nairobi, this cross-cultural document involved the efforts of literally hundreds of women from all over the world and provides multiple perspectives on the social and economic practices of gender-based oppression...
...Women" focus on ideological questions of family, education, work, politics, and sex as they relate to women's condition. Two women writers from contrasting ethnic and economic backgrounds exchange views, bearing witness to the other woman's experience from their respective sides of the First World/Third World fence. The gender question is not isolated but recognized as only part of the broader model of race, gender, and class...
...complexion, "Do you then blame us for being careful in following the white woman's footsteps?" Her historically-based critique points out that minority women are often held in a status of double- and even triple-faceted oppression that prioritizes issues of race and economic class over those of gender. She challenges the assumption that mainstream women's groups speak for or even recognize the plural demands presented by minority women's groups...
Author Angela Davis, professor of Black Philosophy at San Francisco State University, expresses wariness of "the white women's burden," as she labels the chauvinistic tendencies of Western feminists. Caught up in the question of gender, they can be colorblind to the crucial ethnic and cultural differences among women, succumbing to imperialist logic in the domain of female sexuality...