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- Individual female freedom fighters all over the world have single-handedly struggled against patriarchy and male domination.
- In white supremacist capitalist patriarchal Western culture neocolonial thinking sets the tone for many cultural practices.
  - That thinking always focuses on who has conquered a territory, who has ownership, who has the right to rule.
- At the end of the day white women with class power declared that they owned the movement, that they were the leaders and the rest of merely followers.
  - Parasitic class relations have overshadowed issues of race, nation, and gender in contemporary neocolonialism. And feminism did not remain aloof from that dynamic.
  - They declared themselves liberated and therefore in the position to liberate their less fortunate sisters, especially those in the "third world".
  - This neocolonial paternalism had already been enacted to keep women of color in the background so that only conservative/liberal white women would be the authentic representatives of feminism.
- Radical white women tend not to be "represented", and , if represented at all, they are depicted as a fringe freak element.
  - No wonder then that the "power feminism" of the '90s offers wealthy white heterosexual women as the examples of feminist success.
- In truth their hegemonic takeover of feminist rhetoric about equality has helped mask their allegiance to the ruling classes within white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
  - Radical feminists were dismayed to witness so many women appropriating feminst jargon while sustaining their commitment to Western imperialism and transnational capitalism.
- Most American women, particularly white women, have not decolonized their thinking either in relation to the racism, sexism, and class elitism they hold towards less powerful groups of women in this society or the masses of women globally.
- To not understand neocolonism is to not fully live in the present.
- Western women, white and black, have confronted the issue of female circumcision in Africa and the Middle East. Usually these countries are depicted as "barbaric and uncivilized", the sexism there portrayed as more brutal and dangerous to women than the sexism here in the United States.
- A decolonized feminist perspective would first and foremost examine how sexist practices in relation to women's bodies globally are linked.
  - For example : linking circumcision with life-threatening eating disorders (which are the direct consequence of a culture imposing thinness as a beauty ideal) or any life-threatening cosmetic surgery would emphasize that the sexism, the misogyny, underlying these practices
  - When issues are addressed in this manner Western imperialism is not reinscribed and feminism cannot be appropriated by transnational capitalism as yet another luxury product from the West women in other cultures must fight to have the right to consume.
- Zillah Eisenstein, <<Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century>>:
  - Feminism as transnational - imagined as the rejection of false race/gender borders and falsely constructed "other" - is a major challenge to masculinist nationalism, the distortions of statist communism and "free"-market globalism. It is a feminism that recognizes individual diversity, and freedom, and equality, defined through and beyond north/west and south/east dialogues.
- The goal of global feminism is to reach out and join global struggles to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.