Critique of Sherene Razack’s article about multicultural feminisim in Northern countries such as Canada.
Sherene Razack, in her article Your Place or Mine: Transnational Feminist Collaboration, slaughters sacred cows at a truly phenomenal rate. As this review will demonstrate, her article represents a brilliant and insightful challenge of the tokenism with which liberal, multicultural Canada – and the liberal, multicultural academy – represents women from the Third World. While the logic of her argument is, I would argue, flawed in spots, the power of her arguments nonetheless reflects a mature feminist discourse that has come of age in our transnational era essays online to buy. Sadly, her arguments – and particularly her analysis of the subtle racism and social constructions of the asylum/refugee process in Northern countries such as Canada – are not likely to be reprinted in the mainstream media where they deserve a wider audience and provoke public debate.