White women
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"In this connection, it has recently come to my attention that the white woman is the issue here, so I decided I better find out what one is [...] She is Miss Anne of the kitchen, she puts Frederick Douglass to the lash, she cries rape when Emmett Till looks at her sideways, she manipulates white men's very real power with the lifting of her very well-manicured little finger. She makes an appearance in Baraka's "rape the white girl," as Cleaver's real thing after target practice on Black women, as Helmut Newton's glossy upscale hard-edged, distanced, vamp,' and as the Central Park Jogger, the classy white madonna who got herself raped and beaten nearly to death. She flings her hair, feels beautiful all the time, complains about the colored help, tips badly, can't do anything, doesn't do anything, doesn't know anything, and alternates fantasizing about fucking Black men with accusing them of raping her. As Ntozake Shange points out, all Western civilization depends on her.'"--"From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway?" (1991) Catharine A. MacKinnon |
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"From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway?" (1991) is an essay by Catharine A. MacKinnon.
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Richard Rorty, Feminism and Pragmatism, 30 MICH. Q. REV. 231, 234 (1991) ("MacKinnon's central point, as I read her, is that 'a woman' is not yet the name of a way of being human-not yet the name of a moral identity, but, at most, the name of a disability.").
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See also
- White women (mythology)
- Missing white woman syndrome
- White people
- White male
- White slave
- White Women, a 1976 photo book by Helmut Newton
- The White Goddess, a 1948 book-length essay by Robert Graves
- Don't Touch the White Woman