A review by lauralantran_
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

5.0

What an important text. This book encouraged me to think a lot about feminism while reflecting on my own initial reluctance to its ideals and practices as a woman of color. Moreton-Robinson's razor-sharp critique of whiteness and white feminism is startling, such that I never realised how the academe severely and desperately lacks the language to talk about the invisible white privilege made normalised in (feminist) discourses. The book is so mesmerising that I was forced to critically reflect upon my own engagement with my racial identity and whiteness, contemplate on the subjectivity of the Asian feminist (influenced by the collective of specific herstories, subjectivities, epistemologies, and cultures), and questioning the lack of conflict dynamics between Asian women and feminism.

The book is intellectually stimulating and reads extremely well for a sociological theorist junkie which I am. Subversive in every sentence, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.