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Title: | Overcoming the Sisterhood Myth |
Author: | Fouche, Fidela |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 23 |
Pages: | 78-95 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | race relations class relations women Women's Issues Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations Equality and Liberation Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights organizations Status of Women |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/230/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Drawing upon American feminist writers' insights, the present author analyses gender in its relationship to race and class, and the relationship between white and black women both in its historical dimension and in the ways it is being perpetuated. Set in South Africa, a country with a multiplicity of cultural, ethnic, race and class groups, she analyses the sisterhood myth, encompassing the myth that women share the same gender, the motherhood myth, the view that black women are 'triply oppressed', and the view that women in general are oppressed. The article shows that these views vary from one social context to another; that the ways women of different classes experience oppression are very different. The article continues by outlining the historical differences between black and white women in the South African context and the role of apartheid in sex oppression. The conclusion is that the tendency to 'white solipsism' and 'white guilt' on the part of white women, and the anger which has been felt by black women, will hamper the building of a women's movement in South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |