Colleen Mack-Canty's Three Different Types Of Feminism
Colleen Mack-Canty discusses three different types of feminisms Youth Feminism, Postcolonial Feminism, and Ecofeminism. She advocates for Ecofeminism because it includes nonhuman nature and allows women to take back their bodies. She explains that third wave feminism is attempting to get rid of dualities such as racism, sexism, and classism, she is disusing how embodiment can help gain a better understanding of the issues and can help over come them. She explains that Youth Feminism is the first generation to grow up with feminism, and to her she believes this makes these women a tad naïve when it comes to the realities that women went through to get them their rights. Although she did say that being somewhat sheltered actually causes these
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She then turns to other authors to look at alternative metaphors that could be used. The idea of waves can make talking about feminism in the past eairser yet it also has down sides. As we disscused in class the waves have a start and a stop, they build up but ultimately crash, this can be problematic because it suggests that the feminist movement isn’t fluid and that it has a start and stop not being continual. Laughlin looks at Elizabeth brown’s idea of strands she said get rid of the wave metaphor altogether its too exclusive and leaves out too many voices. Then looking at Dorothy Sue Cobble she said keep the wave metaphor but if its being kept we must be aware of how complex the metaphor really is. She thinks the best way to be aware of this is to define feminism again, over the years the deffinintion has seemed gotten a liitle lost for some. Eileen Boris simply stated no waves, just stick with the strands, because there are multiple feminism and the all intertwin like strands. Then there was Permilla Nadasen who liked the idea of waves but said that if we kkep it to simple we loose the complexity and offered the idea of the river. In my opinion these were the biggest points made throughout the article, I personally like the strand idea because it interconnects all the feminisms and has no end, there can be a stagent part in the strand maybe where its flatter or dips down if there is a
She then turns to other authors to look at alternative metaphors that could be used. The idea of waves can make talking about feminism in the past eairser yet it also has down sides. As we disscused in class the waves have a start and a stop, they build up but ultimately crash, this can be problematic because it suggests that the feminist movement isn’t fluid and that it has a start and stop not being continual. Laughlin looks at Elizabeth brown’s idea of strands she said get rid of the wave metaphor altogether its too exclusive and leaves out too many voices. Then looking at Dorothy Sue Cobble she said keep the wave metaphor but if its being kept we must be aware of how complex the metaphor really is. She thinks the best way to be aware of this is to define feminism again, over the years the deffinintion has seemed gotten a liitle lost for some. Eileen Boris simply stated no waves, just stick with the strands, because there are multiple feminism and the all intertwin like strands. Then there was Permilla Nadasen who liked the idea of waves but said that if we kkep it to simple we loose the complexity and offered the idea of the river. In my opinion these were the biggest points made throughout the article, I personally like the strand idea because it interconnects all the feminisms and has no end, there can be a stagent part in the strand maybe where its flatter or dips down if there is a