Postcolonial Feminism and Intersectionality

Abstract

“Sisterhood Is Global,” “The Personal Is Political” or “Wages for Housework,” all these are slogans of the second wave of the women’s movement in the West. But despite its good intentions and the diversity of the various strands of feminism developed at that time – with their decidedly different political aims, models for gender identities and envisaged ways to change society as well as the existing power relations – the women’s movement was not as ‘global’ as it tried or claimed to be. Already at the very beginning, women of color as well as LGBTQ people rightly criticized that they were not visible and did not feel properly represented in a women’s movement that seemed to occupy mainly the essentializing speaking position of White heterosexual middle-class women.