Even as great achievements have been made in writing discrimination against women in the US, people’s awareness of discrimination is owed in huge part to the activities of feminist groups dominated by average-class white women and is tilted to their experiences. So far, discrimination against racial-ethnic women is radically different, complicated, and widespread and without a chance to reach into their lives, our understanding of the full measure of inequality against women in the US will be inadequate.
In this enlightening book, the author observes the lives of women in the 3 main ethnic groups in the United States i.e. Mexican American, Native American, and African American women disclosing ways in which these ethnic groups have suffered tyranny, and the reflective effects it has had on their daily lives.
Here is a challenging examination of the past racial ethnic women, the one that provides not only encouragement into their lives, but also a bigger perception of the history, culture, and politics of the US. For example, the author examines the fight between the U.S. government and the Native American tribes (mainly in the west and in the plains).
The book also explains how the forced acculturation of Red- Indian women caused the desertion of traditional cultural roles and values (in various tribes, women held powerful positions which they had to surrender), subordination to and financial reliance on their husbands, powerful positions, and the loss of meaningful power over their children. (Pg, 96)
Changing Woman provides the first history of women within each racial-ethnic group, tracing the meager progress they have made right up to the present. Indeed, the writer concludes that even as white average-class women have made steps toward liberation from male supremacy, Black women have not yet found any political remedy to their problems. In this book, the author looks into the following:
- The thought of challenging the history of women in three main ethnic groups in the U.S.
- The lives of Mexican-American, Native-American, and African-American women
- Gives a full picture of discrimination against women in the U.S.
Anderson’s rich emphasizes specific women’s problems such as how racism weakens their fight at achieving equality and gives a historical perspective for an enhanced understanding of the present situations of these women. The author understands completely the difficulties and intricacy of the triple and double binds that have formed the lives of minority women in the US. The book provides a magnificent chance to review the rich diversity of women’s experience and to know with more exactness how the structural limits of class race, and gender have work to form women’s lives.
Changing Woman imitates the phrase’s meaning in (Navajo) a sign of cyclical transformation and improvement, a beneficent idol. Her profound treatment of the ethnic situations through history of Mexican American, African American, and Native American women is a fortune of information and insight. This is another magnificent resource for readers of history women.
In signifying that there is no one sample in the ways black women have made effort for equality. The author places African American, Native American, and Mexican American women at the heart of her study. The author offers, thereby a clear picture of both the successes and failures of the feminist group movement. The author’s perceptive attention on the ‘women who survive at the edges of cultural and political power’ makes us change things we thought we understood about the history of women in 20th-century America.
Work cited
Karen Anderson, Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern, New York Oxford University Press US, 1997.