Feminism

‘We are the men in this situation’

Item: White Feminism
Author: Megan Clement

Overcoming feminism’s racial distortion

by Megan Clement •

April 2021, no. 430

White Feminism: From the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind by Koa Beck

Simon & Schuster, $32.99 pb, 319 pp

Feminism

‘We are the men in this situation’

Overcoming feminism’s racial distortion

by Megan Clement •

April 2021, no. 430

The most difficult thing for white, straight, able-bodied, middle-class, cis women to accept seems to be that feminism was designed for them. But the reality is that from a suffrage movement that forced Black marchers to walk at the rear to the ‘girlboss’ CEOs who bully their poorly paid underlings, the cause known as ‘feminism’ has long been dominated by the aspirations of an élite group of women.

Megan Clement

Megan Clement is a journalist and editor specialising in gender, human rights, international development, and social policy. She also writes about Paris, where she has lived since 2015. Her reporting has appeared in the Guardian, Bloomberg, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Al Jazeera among other publications.