Everything that minimizes patriarchy or consciousness of its existence flies in the face of feminism, both theoretically and in action. Refusing it is simply to evade reality itself and the cost of that is to renounce any ability to affect it. But this constraint is the condition of all struggles against any kind of oppressive system. It’s not easy to accept this constraint: we worry that we’ve lost even before the struggle begins. In real life, we don’t choose our battlefield.
There is no neutral terrain where we can confront patriarchy in a one-on-one joust in the spirit of fair play. If we want to change the world, we can’t just ignore it, acting as if it didn’t exist. Taking racism seriously: a necessary condition for prosecuting the struggle against patriarchy Here Delphy discusses how the racist claim that patriarchy is limited to the global south and migrant communities serves to buttress patriarchy in the liberal democracies. Delphy's manifesto lambasts liberal hypocrisy and calls for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place struggles against racism and sexism in false opposition. She calls for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.ĭelphy's other books include The Main Enemy and Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression. In the lead-up to International Women's Day on 8th March, we present an edited extract from Christine Delphy's Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror.
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