Women, Development and Empowerment: A Pacific Feminist Perspective
Negative attitudes to feminism
Negative attitudes to feminism
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it is Western
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it applies to women in industrial societies
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it is part of the Western feminist movement
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it was about not wanting babies
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it was about women wanting to be separate from the rest of society
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it would undermine the traditional power source of women in the Pacific, which is the family
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it was about women being discriminated against (women in the Pacifiic were not discriminated against)
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it was a white women's feminism which arose out of their experiences and their approach. This approach focussed on personal lives rather than looking at society as a whole
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it would segregate men and women.