Feminist View on Ethnic Inequality

Question 1

What are Black feminists critical of

Answer 1

Mainstream feminism for being dominated by White middle-class feminists. Black feminists claim that feminism neglects the needs for ethnic minority women

Question 2

What does Abbott et al. claim

Answer 2

That liberal, Marxist and radical strands of feminism are:
- Ethnocentric
- Portray women mainly as victim and ignore the ways in which Black women have resisted oppression

Question 3

What does Brewer suggest

Answer 3

That ethnic minority women face a triple disadvantage because they experience sexism and racism, and because they are working class.

Race, class and gender simultaneously shape the lives of ethnic minority women

Question 4

What does Mirza argue

Answer 4

That Black feminists have challenged dominant stereotypes of Black and Asian women as the passive victims of racism, patriarchy and social class. They have drawn the ways in which women in the developing world have resisted exploitation and oppression

Question 5

What does Connell challenge

Answer 5

That the dominance of Western feminism and has accused it of acting in a colonial way because it assumes that the experiences of women living in the developed world are typical

Question 6

What does Black feminism neglect

Answer 6

Important aspects of inequality such as age, sexuality and disability