Charlotte Witt

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And the way I got into this project to begin with was that there was a debate going on in feminism.

about over the topic of gender essentialism, in which the predominant view was that gender essentialism was a bad thing.

And that to be a feminist you had to be an anti essentialist.

Uh, sometimes just about gender and other social categories, but also in general.

Okay.

So that um it was it's a bad

Uh both.

false and bad.

Um so an im

So, um

Elizabeth Spellman wrote a very influential book in which she talked about how

Caucasian women's ways of thinking about feminism, defining feminism.

were uh excluded

say women of color.

And there was a debate within feminism at the theoretical level about this sort of thing.

So if you tried to say what a woman was, would that be inherently exclusionary?

And false.

Because

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