Perspectives on the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

To a greater or lesser degree, each philosophers fails to see how race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexual identity, physical and psychological status, and age affect any and all gender-based analyses. Indeed, it has become painfully clear that the "feminist perspectives" professors and students tend to teach and learn reflect the interests of the white, extremely well-educated, and otherwise privileged Anglo-American or European women who have conceived them. The present body of feminist thought must expose itself to the healing touch of fingers whose pressures it has resisted until recently. Specifically, women who have been advantaged on account of their race or class must agree to abandon their privileged position and to move to the margins, so that those women who have been disadvantaged on account of their race or class have more space to grow.

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