Culture wars are people trying to live out their ideals together in union while still divided among themselves due to differing ideas or goals. These culture wars set feminist advances back, everyone is fighting within a common ground however at the same time people of color are being set back in their third wave feminism which has to work through constant drawbacks unlike white feminists of the second waves. In Leslie Heywood’s ,” Third Waves Agenda” she states,”White U.S. feminism has a long history of borrowing from, allying with, and betraying African American liberation movements, and a consciously multicultural third wave feminism must continuously work with and through these tensions.”(Page 10). White feminism stems from a place of privilege which at many times undermines people of colors advances within the feminist movement. For people of color or black people to have advances they would have to fight harder for their goals and work through ignorance and lack of proper allies or “tensions” as Heywood states. Once white feminism actively recognizes and supports people of colors feminism and does not overshadow the struggles that are faces, that’s when feminism would be able to move forward.
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I really appreciate your explanation. It makes it easier to understand your topic. I had a similar definition, but more broad. I saw it ass the general struggle between multiple groups on opposing groups. For example when it comes to feminism… the fight that takes-place when society, cultures, bodies constructs a notion about women or feminism that brings conflict. There now becomes this “war” on what it needs to be and what it already is.
I agree with your view on culture wars. I think that feminism on its own has a culture. Culture wars definitely play a role in third wave feminism and create drawbacks for those of color and those that are unprivileged.
I agree with your explanation of culture wars. I feel that society still has these social standards held up to what it means to become a woman and the only way to gain equality is by breaking down those standards.