“This is one of the books that stretches what you thought you knew and forces you to reexamine your motives and interactions with the world. Far too often the Western parts of the globe dictate behavior and belief to black/brown skin nations according to extraordinarily biased and incorrect information.
African Women & Feminism speaks directly to the Western ‘feminist’ and explains the differences in social dynamics and definitions of being that invalidate many requirements of 21st century United States and European women.
Feminism, initially invented with a particular demographic in mind, has only very recently attempted to include others in its ranks. In her introduction, Oyewumi asserts, “white feminists have considered their experience of womanhood in their culture as the prototypic female experience and have used it to define feminism.””
Continue Reading at the source: Review: “African Women & Feminism” edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi
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