Mainstream Feminism
This term describes feminism that focuses on advancements of already privileged, often white, women.
What is "glass ceiling feminism"?
The term for having mutual respect for each other's differences, learning about another's culture, and acknowledging and respecting other differences.
What is sisterhood?
According to Lorde, why can “the master’s tools” never truly dismantle “the master’s house”?
Because using the same systems or methods that built an oppressive structure cannot truly dismantle it.
What is intersectionality?
Interconnected social catagorizations that lead to overlapping layer of disadvantages and discrimination
The term for feminism that focuses more on fighting for the rights of white women than women of other color.
What is racist feminism?
What social class and racial group of women is mainstream feminism primarily shaped by?
Who are white bourgeois women?
The term for when women come together to fight against sexist oppression, racism, and other prejudices.
What is political solidarity?
What does the "Master" represent in this reading?
patriarchal, racist, and heteronormative systems
What is the modern-day feminist movement really referring to?
White feminism
Describe Bourgeois Feminism according to Angela Davis's Speech
According to Angela Davis, Bourgeois Feminism is unfortunately the most represented form and focuses on the advancement of individual women within the existing structures of capitalism.
Angela Davis highlights this group's historical exclusion from mainstream feminism.
Who are women of color and working-class women?
The term for a belief primarily made by Bourgeois White Women that all women are equally oppressed.
What is "common oppression"?
Lorde says feminism is weakened when it ignores what key factor?
Difference—race, class, sexuality, and age
How did early feminist ideologies ostracize Black women from the movement?
de-feminization by equating them to animals or portraying them without dignity in media
This word describes a system ruled by men, where power and authority are centered in male dominance — a key structure Lorde says feminism must dismantle
What is patriarchy?
What form of feminism aims to dismantle racist and patriarchal systems entirely?
What is abolition feminism?
The term for the ideas of male domination which leads to creating the discrimination, exploitation, or oppression of women.
What are male supremacist values?
What warning does Lorde give to feminists who use the master's tools?
That they'll only create surface-level reform, not true transformation
Rank the median weekly earnings from most to least: White women, black women, Hispanic/Latina women, and Asian women
White women > Asian women > Hispanic/Latina women > Black women
What is inclusionary feminism?
Feminism that seeks inclusion, especially within oppressive institutions, like capitalism rather than transforming them.
As long as oppressive systems like capitalism and patriarchy exist, these movements will continue to emerge.
What are revolutions?
What was a problematic issue expressed by contemporary feminist activists?
The issue that they did not acknowledge multi-racial women faced oppression by white women.
What example does Audre Lorde give of how the “master’s tools” continue to be used within feminist spaces?
When privileged feminists expect women of color to educate them about racism and exclusion instead of doing the work themselves.
What is it called when people of color undermine their own abilities?
Imposter phenomenon
This word, used by Lorde, means making only small or surface-level improvements instead of real structural change?
What is reformism?