The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents
Özge Savaş,
Lauren E. Duncan,
Hanna M. Smith
et al.
Abstract:We examined how locally situated and transnationally circulated meanings of feminism interact forming implicit cultural meanings, and how these meanings about feminism appear in women's accounts of their own work and identifications. Using twenty‐four oral histories, we identified four implicit cultural meanings about feminism: (1) “Mainstream” feminism is/as white and middle‐class; (2) Feminists are lesbians; (3) Feminism is/as hostile to men; and (4) Feminism is/as a “western” ideology. In addition, we ident… Show more
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