The color of privilege : three blasphemies on race and feminism / Aída Hurtado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurtado, Aída.

Series:

Critical perspectives on women and gender.

Critical perspectives on women and gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--United States.

Minority women.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 203 p. ; 24 cm.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Summary:

This groundbreaking and important book explores how women of different ethnic/racial groups conceive of feminism. Arguing against the normative feminist model based on white women's experience, Aida Hurtado advances a theory of relational privilege to explain that the different responses to feminism are not so much the result of personality or cultural differences between white women and women of color, but of their differing relationship to white men. Written from an interdisciplinary, multicultural standpoint that draws from psychology, economics, political science, and feminist theory, Hurtado's analysis is enriched by selections from poems by Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldua, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Elba Sanchez, and from plays by El Teatro Campesino, the United Farm Workers theater group.

Contents:

1. Relating to Privilege and Political Mobilization Toward a Multicultural Feminism

2. The Poetics of Resistance Sexual Dynamics in the Gender Subordination of Chicanas

3. An Invitation to Power The Restructuring of Gender in the Political Movements of the 60s

4. On a Reflexive Feminist Theory of Gender Subordination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-02539-2

OCLC:

304164346