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• W2299304694 abstract "Introduction I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat ... (Rebecca West, 1993, The Clarion, Nov. 14) I am a PhD student and a Black feminist. That does not mean I share precisely same perspectives informing my identity as others who may also name themselves as I do. In seeking to understand women's oppression and subordination, my own developing feminist frames acknowledge that women have variable experiences that differ in extremism and also in form. Like most other feminists today, I try not to generalize. But as a young Black woman from Kenya, my dissatisfaction with some existing forms of feminism has led me to concentrate on problems faced by other Black women from my own country through my own theoretical sense making. As stated by Rebecca West in vignette, I feel constant pressure to justify my views from those of people around me, which is difficult when I am still trying to understand and come to terms with them myself. The more familiar I become with a range of feminist theories, more difficulty I have in naming my perspectives clearly. Nevertheless, I hope that this paper will provide a dialogue to help other budding intellectuals to find their own feminist self. In having moved from Africa to Australia to complete a PhD, I am now living in a predominantly white developed country, in a white middle class suburb. While I struggle to conceptualize all dimensions of oppression experienced by Black women in Kenya, I now also have an appreciation of both Western and non-Western world views informing Black women's lives. As a result, I have created an independent, viable, yet subjugated knowledge concerning my subordination. For first time, I am on a personal journey of discovering and interpreting experiences of black women, including of Black women intellectuals, through my own knowledge and observations of race, class and gender oppression. I have a Black feminist perspective that draws its origins from United States. I intend to use this theoretical framework in my PhD to conceptualize unjust structural, socio-economic and cultural practices that affect Black women's wellbeing and experiences in post-colonial Kenya. My purpose is to explore significant aspects of oppression effecting people in non-Western nations, such as Kenya, which deserve investigation. But my concern with some Black feminist perspectives is their susceptibility to misunderstand or ignore Black African women's experience and to conceptualize third world Black women as being in need of a 'second epoch of colonization' (Soyinka 1976). Black African women are too often positioned as needing rescue from their own culture by their more enlightened black or white Western others who seek to revolutionize Black Africa. My intention is not to exploit or revolutionize my own kind, but I question how I may be respectful of my sister-other now that my identity and worldview extends beyond Kenya. Not all Black African women intellectuals embrace term 'feminism' due to its associations with radical versions of Western feminist thought (for example, see Dosekun 2007, Arndt 2002, Santoru 1996). But rather than absolute rejection of feminisms of African Americans, I intend to exploit them to my advantage when exploring various manifestations of oppression. While embarking on my PhD thesis, in which I examine lived experiences of Kenyan women living with vaginal fistula, I am trying to understand implications of the supposed objectivity of male-dominated scientific establishment, and omission of African women's perspectives and experiences from scientific study (Bortin et al. 1994, 142). My endeavor is to listen to women, and understand women's perceptions and co-create meaning with support of my Black feminist lens. …" @default.
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• W2299304694 title "Discovering My Own African Feminism: Embarking on a Journey to Explore Kenyan Women's Oppression" @default.
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