Feminist critique of cultural practices requires attending to intra-group power dynamics and intersecting identities

Evidence

As Floya Anthias suggests, to navigate between the poles of feminism and multiculturalism two things must be borne in mind: relationships between dominant and subordinate groups and ‘the need to attack this unequal relationship at national and global levels’ and similar relationships of inequality within groups. Key to keeping these things in mind is remembering that women are agents with multilayered identities who need to resist class exploitation and racial domination and be free from violence and gender inequality. Anthias stresses that we must avoid homogenizing and totalizing cultures, just as we must avoid treating gender as a unitary category that stands apart from all other things. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 352

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out Anthias’s framework for navigating feminism vs multiculturalism without either homogenizing culture or treating gender as an isolated category.
• XREF: connects to: Women of color zines challenged the whiteness of mainstream feminist zine culture — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 93; Female zinesters pioneered sharing personal struggles as political community practice — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 93