Feminism and other studies-Cause and Effect

Feminism seems to be an area of study that is tied highly to emotions. Many women feel that they do not get a fair shake in life because they are women. The areas that Donadey and Lionnet touch on are areas that are convoluted by other problems. In other words the areas of feminism studies that they are speaking of are complicated by the fact that the women in question are both women and of color, or of an alternative life style or have disabilities.

In the section on "US Third World Feminisms" the discussion is about women of color and how now instead of just looking at the women of color within the United States there is a tendency towards "transnational perspectives" (227) which allows the study to include the original culture from which these women come from to form their sense of identity and thus to exert for their rights based on their cultural as well as their feminine perspectives.

In post colonial studies of feminism it appears that they find it important to study our past and the ways in which women have been discriminated against in order to not forget the past so that it will not repeat itself.

The study of feminists with disabilities is so much today like feminists of color studies used to be at one time, it is almost non-existent. It was good to read that their are efforts being made to make that different and to include this group in the feminist studies of the present day.

I personally am not a feminist. I believe that I am just as good at what I do as a lot of men, I feel that I work harder many times than my husband :-) but never once have I felt discriminated against. In the way I have felt discriminated in, whether it be in a career or when I was trying out for parts in plays in college or whatever I have done in my life, it was more about my weight. So am I being discriminated against because I am overweight or because I am an overweight female? Are women of color discriminated against because they are of color or because they are also women? I sometimes think that in our society today women are held on a much more even plane with male counterparts unless there is an "other" issue besides being a female. Whatever that "other" may be from sexual lifestyle to the size of clothes you wear. I am not sure which brings it about more. Again this is just the perspective from my experience.