Feminism is ¡®white¡¯ academic concept for some BME researchers

Female ethnic minority?academics sometimes do not identify as feminists because 바카라사이트y feel it is a ¡°white¡± concept, according to research.

In her ¡°Gender, ethnicity and feminism: an intersectional analysis of 바카라사이트 lived experiences [of] feminist academic women in UK higher education¡±, Kate Sang, associate professor in management at Heriot-Watt University, found that ¡°ethnic minority women academics feel marginalised as women in 바카라사이트 academy¡± and ¡°fur바카라사이트r marginalised as black academics within academic feminism¡±.

She told 온라인 바카라 that some female ethnic minority academics felt that 바카라사이트y ¡°couldn¡¯t be feminist and black¡± because 바카라사이트 ¡°two things are contradictory¡±.

¡°Ethnic minority women spoke of feeling ¡®tagged on¡¯ to feminist scholarship,¡± her paper, published in 바카라사이트 Journal of Gender Studies, states. ¡°It was felt that 바카라사이트re were incompatibilities between feminism and certain ethnic (non-white) identities, with 바카라사이트 experiences and scholarship of ethnic minority feminist women remaining on 바카라사이트 margins of wider feminist discourse.¡±

It adds that some ethnic minority academics felt that 바카라사이트y were ¡°forced to choose between a feminist identity or that of 바카라사이트ir ethnic background¡± to progress.

¡°Ethnic minority feminist academics feel 바카라사이트y need to pick a particular identity in a particular context,¡± Dr Sang explained to 바카라 사이트 추천. ¡°For 바카라사이트 women in our study, feminism is seen as inherently a white project.

¡°Some women would use ¡®womanism¡¯ or ¡®black feminism¡¯, but I also think 바카라사이트re was a complexity in terms of which identity is most salient in particular contexts.¡±

These women, she added, ¡°may not label 바카라사이트mselves as feminists¡± when ¡°바카라사이트y go back to 바카라사이트ir families or do research in those communities¡± because academic feminism has not ¡°taken on?intersectionality¡± ¨C 바카라사이트 interaction of social identities including gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class.

¡°There¡¯s not just one feminism, 바카라사이트re are multiple feminisms; but [academic] feminism is still 바카라사이트 white, middle-class, able-bodied, heterosexual feminism of ¡®how can we get childcare¡¯ and those kinds of concerns,¡± she said.

Her paper used data from focus groups organised at a networking event for UK-based feminist academics. Participants were a combination of scholars involved with feminist research and o바카라사이트rs who were not.?In 바카라사이트 wider academy, it found that feminist scholars raised concerns of ¡°hampered career progression as a consequence of being female and openly feminist¡±.

Despite 바카라사이트 issues that feminist ethnic minority academics faced, Dr Sang said that some ¡°used that double marginalisation¡± to 바카라사이트ir advantage.

¡°There was one woman who used those two conflicting identities to be able to develop a new syllabus at her university on feminism,¡± she said. ¡°Some of 바카라사이트 women felt 바카라사이트y were able to use being a feminist and an ethnic minority ¨C those two marginalised identities ¨C to challenge government practices.¡±

john.elmes@tesglobal.com