International Feminism

I took the most from Nnaemeka’s article on Nego-feminism. I’m always interested in hearing people’s feelings on theory, experience, and the often discordant feelings people hold about the two, and this provided a new perspective and internationalized those ideas for me in a way that they hadn’t been before.

While the veiling articles I think added to the knowledge and discussions of the class as a whole, there wasn’t a lot of new information there to me; I do think it was interesting to look at it from a perspective of capitalism; putting that article in conjunction with the veil article next to the Waring article about economics was interesting, and looking at capitalism in the context of a close reading of these two articles side by side would be interesting.

However, I don’t know if I’d have pursued that paper, because in the end I do think I still would argue that anti-capitalism is a  primary ways to interact with the world.

If I had to write a paper on a subtopic of international feminism, I would probably use the Nego-feminism article and Nnaemeka’s ideas, especially of the chameleon, and use that to discuss ways that feminism can be expanded and adapting, with the veil as a primary example; this would include some of the previously mentioned capitalism concepts (that while anti-capitalism is important, different people often express their counter-culture and/or feminism within the boundaries of capitalism and that’s important too), but also how the views of the veil – both within these countries mentioned in the veiling articles and in Western countries – should be adapted to create a more inclusive, chameleon-like version of feminism that is disruptive to the system but not imposing itself when in an environment that isn’t its own.