Multicultural and Global Feminism

When reading the book Feminist Though by Rosemary Putnam Tong , it was interesting to hear about all the different types of feminism that exist. When you think feminist you don't necessarily think of all the different categories of feminism that may exist. The section on Multicultural feminism was superficial. It did not go into enough detail in my opinion. It did not talk at all about Hispanic/Latina feminism which I found to be a significant omission being that Hispanics are the largest minority group in the U.S. Based on this fact, it would have been good to have at least a page or two on the subject. The book also did not address the issues faced by bi-racial or bi-cultural feminists, which may be different than the issues faced by people of only one culture or race.

One section of the Global feminism chapter that I found interesting was the quote by Nawal el Saadawi "Western women often go to countries such as Sudan and 'see' only clitoridectomy, but never notice the role of multinational corporations and their exploited labor." Basically, the author talks about how we recognize other people's oppression of women, bot not how indirectly we oppress omen by support for certain multinational corporations. This made me think of how much damage we can do to the world through our shopping.