Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface/Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Emergence and Development of Racial/Ethnic Feminisms in the 1960s and 1970s
- 1 To Whom Do You Refer?
- 2 The “Fourth World” Is Born
- 3 The Vanguard Center
- 4 “We Called Ourselves ‘Feministas’”
- 5 Organizing One's Own
- Conclusion: Feminists on Their Own and for Their Own
- Appendix: The Interviews/Living After the Second Wave
- References
- Index
Conclusion: Feminists on Their Own and for Their Own
Revisiting and “Re-Visioning” Second-Wave Feminisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface/Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Emergence and Development of Racial/Ethnic Feminisms in the 1960s and 1970s
- 1 To Whom Do You Refer?
- 2 The “Fourth World” Is Born
- 3 The Vanguard Center
- 4 “We Called Ourselves ‘Feministas’”
- 5 Organizing One's Own
- Conclusion: Feminists on Their Own and for Their Own
- Appendix: The Interviews/Living After the Second Wave
- References
- Index
Summary
We ought to be able to find a few hours somewhere along the line to continue the revolution, because I think we are in a revolution and we need to do it.
Aileen C. Hernández San Francisco, California July 2000Second-Wave Feminisms, Plural
The social divisions – the social inequities – of race/ethnicity, class, and gender that structured feminisms into organizationally distinct movements – Black, Chicana, and white – operated at several levels. The macrostructure of postwar American society created unequal sets of resources, privilege, and opportunity for feminists situated in different racial/ethnic communities, and these inequalities created obstacles to cross-racial/ethnic organizing. Feminists in oppositional movement communities organized in specific intramovement contexts that shaped their visions of what they could and should do. As they organized, they kept a sense of themselves as leftists who wished to do their politics the right way.
In previous chapters, I have shown that organizing within oppositional political milieus was never simply a question of feminists co-opting resources and splitting off from parent movements. Instead, the historical record gives us discussion, debate, and ambivalence about how to organize as feminists.
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- Separate Roads to FeminismBlack, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave, pp. 214 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003