Review of: Gabriele Dietze: Weiße Frauen in Bewegung. Genealogien und Konkurrenzen von Race- und Genderpolitiken. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2013.

Abstract

Gabriele Dietze traces the relation of the categories of race and gender within US-American history from the middle of the 19th century up to the presidential elections of Barack Obama. In doing so, she, based on central figures of the white feminist movement, illustrates their ambivalent positions that often stand for progressive contents like the advocacy of women’s rights but at the same time do not articulate the concerns of African-Americans or even put them to silence. Additionally, using texts by some black authors as well as famous lawsuits, Dietze shows that black emancipation did not necessarily go hand in hand with feminist positions but that rather a competitive situation between race and gender developed.