The Unity of All Women: Horizontal Feminism by Maura Hennessey
Posted by catkisser
http://radicalbitch.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/the-unity-of-all-women-horizontal-feminism-by-maura-hennessey/Another guest blog and I am opening this blog up to others who also wish to guest blog in the hopes this might become yet another community nexus of those of us who wish to promote this new (old) vision of feminism. It should be apparent that Maura and I share a similar vision here.
"It was a true sisterhood. What bound us together was the spirit within, the spirit of the feminine. Equals."
We were walking together on the grounds of the Complutense University in Madrid when my mentor and former profesora spoke those words to me. We were discussing the feminist movement of the last years of the Spanish Republic, known as "feminismo." Feminismo gave rise to the Mujeres Libres, the Free Women of the Civil War.
"The Americans are crazy, Maureen. They will replace the Patriarchy of men with a Patriarchy of women. Who speaks for the poor or for the Moors(her word for African)? No one. It is a vertical feminism, and it will oppress and marginalise in the name of liberation, and I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. They will, you watch." Her lesson of the day to me had begun.
also
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=12653
