“Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.” EndsCultureLevelsStruggleFeminismWesternVariousOppressionIdeologyDominationSexistWestern Culture Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.” IfsThinkingWorldMadeAbleSleepFeminismWesternEnormousChecksAppropriateTonightStride Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.” KnowsWayKindHouseBoysGrowing UpGrowingFeminismWesternMalesBunchSuitsPantsCostumesAppropriationWorkspace Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.” ThinkingWorldImportantCountryPoorFeminismWesternFeminist Author:Doris Lessing
“I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and for American feminism, it not so surprisingly continues to center Western feminism and American feminism. And I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.” ThinkingWorldKindCountryHelpingTermFeminismWesternFeministPoint Of ViewHurdleCondescending Author:Jessica Valenti
“The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.” MenWellsMadeChristianFeminismLogicWesternMalesFeministGreekArenaExclusion Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.” HumansSpiritCultureFeminismHuman NatureMovementMoralityMeetingsWesternFeministTraditionalRadicalRevolutionaryDestructiveSixtyProposeRadical FeminismWestern CultureRestructuring Author:Robert Bork
“The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.” WorldLittlesTodayTurnsCareersIssuesFeminismAreasThirdsWesternInjusticeMissionsProtectionLife And DeathExploitationWoeThird WorldSpotlightAffluentRural AreasCareer WomenCarp Author:Camille Paglia