[Dwan W.]

Why is it that even in the 21st century there continues to be separation in the women’s liberation movement? Have you noticed that when it comes to minority groups, white women are classified by themselves (the term ‘women and minorities’)? Why don’t they just say WHITE women and minorities, because that’s what is implied?

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[T27537]

The reason why women are stressed as a minority in and of themselves (even within a minority context) is that ‘minority’ does not automatically imply a culture that is beneficial to women. Many minorities show a strongly patriarchal culture, making minority women a doubly suppressed group. So the term ‘white women and minorities’ would only cover up the suppression of women within minorities themselves. Patriarchy is not limited to one racial context.

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[Cynthia31733]

‘Woman’ equals human adult female. So I think when people see ‘women and minorities,’ they really mean ‘all women and minority men.’

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[Cheryl32323]

Why can’t they just say minorities. That encompasses everything. When you include the ‘women’ it makes it blatantly obvious that you are seperating us from everyone else. As far as women as a group being a minority, I haven’t read any stats but I doubt that women are in any shortage at all.

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[PaleRider19857]

Double standards honey.

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[Denise]

it is simply because the issues vary within different races. a white woman is not in pursuit of the same things as a chicana woman or a black woman. a main issue in whhite womens movements has been the right to have an abortion, while women of color sometimes dont even have access to birth control and contraceptives. i feel that the issues are very different, and that is why there is such seperation.

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[Sue]

The term ‘women and minorities’ aims to include women of all backgrounds and to mitigate the isolating effects of the word ‘women.’ Up until not so long ago, the term ‘woman’ in the women’s movement denoted middle class and white. As such, women of color attempted to forge their own movements based on experiences that were overlooked and/or pushed aside by the dominant (white) women of the movement. While the term ‘women and minorities’ attempts to include all women, its language indicates division and quite possibly that women of color aren’t considered to be true women. One explanation to the term’s existence may be the continued absence of unity and harmony within the movement. Studies show that women do not identify with each other on the basis of gender as much as they do of race, implying that racial lines are stronger than gender lines.

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