I Struggled to Self Identify as a Feminist When I Was Growing Up

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Many black women are intimidated by feminism as it currently exists. They perceive it to be conflict with the equally pressing issue of race and ethenicity. A new political party was founded, the women's equality party. But i noticed when it was launched there were no black women from the launch. What concerned me was the idea that it didn't start with that voice. If you see feminism as something that affects women, and black women, or non white women, as a separate thing, then you're undermining the very essence of this cause. To me, it's absolutely fundamental. It's not an adon. It’s not an extra a. I'm a feminist, but

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Washington power player who upset the feminist applecart. At the peak of her career — as first female Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department — she turned her back on her dream job with Hillary Clinton in order to spend more time with her teenage sons. How, cried her contemporaries, could she have sacrificed her high-powered career for her family? Slaughter’s ensuing article for The Atlantic, ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’, went viral, sparking furious debate about how men and women juggle their working lives. Having it all, Slaughter argued, remained a mirage. Women who managed to be both mothers and top professionals were either ‘superhuman, rich or self-employed’. On January 26, Anne-Marie Slaughter came to the Intelligence Squared stage, together with Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and presenter of the recent BBC documentary series The Ascent of Woman, which charts the role of women in society over 10,000 years. They were joined by...

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