Feminist theory offers disaffiliation from whiteness as a way out of the double bind.

Evidence

Hill is particularly interested in the way that some feminists responded to these charges. Marilyn Frye, for example, faced what she saw as a double bind inherent in white critique - a kind of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. Her solution, as he reads it, is to call for disaffiliation from the structures of white privilege without losing sight of the way that gender and class compound identity and complicate the idea that individuals can simply choose to opt out of a category that they consider problematic: “It might indeed be said as a feminist lesson that ‘disaffiliation’ from the white race, its categorical disintegration, is perhaps a form of gendered interrogation already in progress” (Hill, 1997:7). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 781 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black students have long viewed feminism as a white movement irrelevant to racial struggle. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 208; White critique faces a double bind that disaffiliation from whiteness cannot simply resolve — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 781; Feminist politics must resist both white supremacy and patriarchy simultaneously — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 363

Broader Connections

• White critique faces a double bind that disaffiliation from whiteness cannot simply resolve #complicates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 781