The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism - Kyla Schuller
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An incisive history of self-serving White feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them.
Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves.
In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the 200-year counter-history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against White feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice. These feminist heroes such as Frances Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauli Murray have created an anti-racist feminism for all. But we don’t speak their names, and we don’t know their legacies. Unaware of these intersectional leaders, feminists have been led down the same dead-end alleys generation after generation, often working within the structures of racism, capitalism, homophobia, and transphobia rather than against them.
Building a more just feminist politics for today requires a reawakening, a return to the movement’s genuine vanguards and visionaries. Their compelling stories, campaigns, and conflicts reveal the true potential of feminist liberation. The Trouble with White Women gives feminists today the tools to fight for the flourishing of all.
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This post has 22 comments with rating of 4/5
December 1st, 2021
Let’s imagine a world where I published a book balled “The problem with Black Women” (and let’s me honest.. I would have no shortage of material to work with.
how long do you think it would be before my book was banned and I was called every horrible name you could imagine?
How about a little less divisiveness? how about we begin to hold ourselves to a higher standard?
There will be no equality as long as you keep constantly perpetuating the “us” vs “them” poisonous mentality.
December 1st, 2021
There always needs to be a new enemy to keep the revolution rolling. Tiresome.
December 1st, 2021
@monkeymill: 150% right. It’s a united we stand, divided we fall kind of situation that no one has bothered to try and changed forever and a day. However, as to voice any other opinion on the matter, not for me. I’m married to a wonderful wife that is both feminine and works while we keep a nice balance at home and work. People do have to take the blinders off and, start thinking of things as a whole not in parts and, put one against the other. Stay safe folks.:) bd.
December 1st, 2021
@ monkey mill: banned? Name a similar book that was banned. RWNJs are always imagining that they’ve been banned. Not finding a publisher who wants to promote you isn’t being banned. Even Holocaust denial books aren’t banned, except in Germany. You can publish whatever hateful misogynistic or racist crap you want if you have the money. No one will want to buy it, maybe no one will want to sell it, but that is your problem.
December 1st, 2021
Why are you guys posting here? You should rather switch off your smartphone/computer and start working on … multiplication. You know, because us white folks are facing extinction. Stop crying and make some sweet sweet love. Preferably with a Karen ;-)
December 1st, 2021
I just love how it separates ‘poor’ from white women as if the two never intersect.
Divisive trash.
December 1st, 2021
And so the snake begins to eat its own tail…
December 1st, 2021
“In The Biopolitics of Feeling, Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be affected over time—to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth century. The book challenges interpretations of sentimentalism as primarily concerned with emotional feeling and cultural production, revealing sentiment to function as a widespread technology of individual discipline and species modulation that enabled the deployment of biopower and its sciences of sex and race difference.”
Why didn’t you post this one bro?
It sounds way more interesting
December 1st, 2021
Bookburners burn books. I can’t imagine a single little tome undoing the decades of indoctrination that we in the global north have been subjected to, but I’m hopeful.
Thanks for this!
December 1st, 2021
Once again, a bunch of yokels running their yaps about something they have no idea about in the comments.
I say this as a white woman: feminism has a long, shameful history of confusing what is good for white women (particularly affluent white women) with what is good for all women. White feminists tell BIPOC woman to put the concerns that specifically affect them on the back burner and concentrate on the concerns that white feminists want to focus on, and then conveniently forget about that back-burner issue once their goals have been met. Because hey, if white women get what they want, then all women are doing better, right?
Well, no. It turns out, not so much.
When “women” got the right to vote in 1920, only white women had a guaranteed right to vote. It would be years or even decades before a similar right to vote was guaranteed for Black women by the elimination of poll taxes and literary tests and other laws put in place in order to prevent the black population from exercising a purely theoretical right to vote. And when Black woman got that vote, they fought for it alone, because after 1920, the white suffragettes decided the mission was accomplished and moved on. (https://time.com/5876456/black-women-right-to-vote/)
At suffragette marches, Black women were frequently asked not to march, or to march at the end of the line. Because white suffragettes were concerned about how it would look if Black women stood beside them.
Without Googling or looking up at the description of this book, name one Black suffragette. Can’t do it? There’s a reason for that, and it isn’t that there weren’t any. It’s because their stories haven’t been told, and their contributions haven’t been valued.
When feminists say say “women only make on the dollar compared to men” they mean white women. Black women make even less than that, and Latinx woman even less. (https://www.investopedia.com/wage-gaps-by-race-5073258)
BIPOC woman live in a situation where the sexism they face is exacerbated by racism, and the racism they face is exacerbated by sexism. This is known as “intersectionality.” And unless those sorts of complicated issues are addressed as part and parcel of feminism, then feminism will never accomplish what it purportedly aims to achieve.
So, and I say this again, I AM a white woman (in fact, I’m related to Amelia Bloomer, inventor of the Bloomer costume that was so popular with the suffragettes) and there is nothing wrong with this book. Because the first step in solving a problem is acknowledging it exists, and recognizing the harm it has done. The fact that it engenders so much knee-jerk defensiveness just shows just how unwilling white people (even white progressives) are to address the issue.
December 1st, 2021
@ChazWylde448
“There is nothing wrong with this book. Because the first step in solving a problem is acknowledging it exists, and recognizing the harm it has done. The fact that it engenders so much knee-jerk defensiveness just shows just how unwilling white people (even white progressives) are to address the issue”
Thanks for your comment widening my view on this issue.
Thanks a lot as always, daenigma100.
December 1st, 2021
“Kyla Schuller”
“Schuller”
Hmmmmm…
December 1st, 2021
i just love people who are essentailly stealing books here getting all sanctimonious in these comment sections lol.
5 stars
December 2nd, 2021
Feminism has wrecked the lives of so many. I guess it’s time for POC to get in on the destruction too.
December 2nd, 2021
This is such a stupid premise. Also, you can tell when someone is not a serious person, when they include “trans women” in their list. THERE IS NO SUCH THING. Only mentally ill men.
December 2nd, 2021
@Dolfboy “I just love how people who are parsnips are getting all rhinoceros.”
There. Made that flow more logically for you.
@lisiva5995
*looks at my spouse of 20+ years, who only began transitioning about five years ago* Gee, honey, did you know you don’t exist? Some ignorant rando on the internet says there’s no such thing as, well, you.
*looks at the 14yo child I’ve had with this transfeminine person* And where the heck did you come from?
December 2nd, 2021
@Chaz - I have to say, I do like that logical correction. Discursive kudos.
December 2nd, 2021
@caesar963 Mostly I just wanted to use the word “parsnips”.
Also, I felt giving the whole lecture on how absurd it is to assume a person who torrents audiobooks has no moral/ethical/logical ground to stand upon when discussing a point that is in no way related to the ethics of torrenting books would be a bit typographically long-winded, even for me.
December 2nd, 2021
We all have a hinterland - even the beloved parsnip. Not so sure about turnips, however.
December 3rd, 2021
While the common people might not know the history of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ women fighting for equality, this entire debate revolves around the book’s propensity to create divisiveness within the movement. Speaking as someone who watched the Democratic party eat itself alive when young progressivists like myself voted for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the primaries in 2016, I can easily tell you that liberals will use this material as fuel to attack other liberals for not being liberal enough. And we need unity, not infighting. Hell, my sentiment is evidenciary even in these comments, where a commenter pointed out the wording the author used to indicate that white people can’t be poor people. I’ll give it a listen, but my faith in humanity after the past four years has dwindled to zero. Books that divide the people who need to stand together leave me nauseous.
The real culprit is anonymity on the internet. There are no consequences to how harsh we speak to each other, but we can still take that disposition with us into the real world.
December 4th, 2021
lol propaganda for the retarded identoty politics is just dumb
October 1st, 2025
This is not some kind of new identity politics as some of the commenters claim. See for example the Combahee River Collective statement, which is freely available online and it’s included in the 2017 book, How We Get Free.
The facile identity “politics” of recent years, exemplified by exclusionary practices and naive cultural and ethnic essentialism, should not be confused with the historically-accurate critique of feminism as being far too oriented toward white women, especially white professional women. This conception and practice of feminism was exemplified to an extreme degree by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Now in the Trump 2.0 era, it is very clear that white professional women live and work in a different world than black women, even well-educated professional black women. Just consider how white women are appointed to high ranking positions in the Trump administration, while highly accomplished black women are denigrated in openly racist ways by people like Charlie Kirk (a college dropout) and fired from their jobs by the Trump administration.
So if a “colorblind” feminist does not consider race, and just looks at women as one homogeneous category of people, then this feminist could claim (with empirical evidence) that women have been making great progress in terms of securing more powerful positions in government and corporations, even under the second Trump administration.
But that empirical evidence would actually represent the progress of white women and hide the fact that black women are losing ground. This colorblind feminist might have the best of intentions, yet this would still be the outcome. If the empirical data does not include race as well as gender, then even a well-intentioned researcher cannot see that black women are losing ground.
So it really matters if the feminist movement considers women as one homogenous group of people typified by the likes of Hillary Clinton, et al.
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