Blog #3

The two assigned readings I'd like to choose are "Theorizing Difference from Mutiracial Feminism", and "Global Women".

After reading the first essay, I was forced to think that since there are different races of women, there shouldn't be only one feminism. And also, just similar to the "mythical norm", women who fit in "white feminism" also have common characters. They are middle class, white, and so on. However, it is obviously that not all women can fit in the category, so that there should be different feminisms. Then, I thought about Audre Lorde and her view of "unorthodox " feminism. She said, "as a forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two...I usually find myself a part of some group defined as other, deviant, inferior, or just plain wrong." (245) She pointed out that there were really other feminisms and other thoughts. Thus we should view the world not only in one lens.
And in the "Global Women", what Josephine did really struck me. She left her children and went to work in foreign countries. What really amazed me is that all her children had psycological problems, and they did not live good lives. It made me to think why single mothers have to sacrifice so much and still can not get the felicitous and satisfactory lives. Also, most times, women who go out to work do not get creditable jobs. Just as the authors pointed out, "global women" often do lower status jobs such as waitress, nanny and even sex workers. However, they just want to give their children rich lives. So,these women have to struggle to get recognized by the foreign society and also by her children. Pretty hard, and very conflicting.

To Prof. Messner's question, I think that if we have a standard of truth, then the "situated knowledge" will certainly not be the impediment of knowing the world clearly. However, if we assume that truth is changing through the area and time, we can find that "situated knowledge" really stop us knowing the world. Because of this, Bruno was burnt; Galileo was circumvenced; Darwin was attacked. So, I believe that wether "situated knowledge" is an impediment or not, it depends on the definition of the truth.