fatma's Reviews > White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Strategic White Womanhood makes personal what is political. It reframes legitimate critiques as petty gripes. It takes the onus off the structures and systems that hold back racialized women and places it firmly on the behaviour of these same women."

hamad makes some great points throughout (especially in regards to maternal colonialism and imperialism), and her argument is strong and well-defined, but i cant help but feel like something was missing from this book. i think i wanted more of a critical and in-depth analysis of a few specific examples rather than a broad overview of the intersection of race and sexism through many, but less in-depth, examples. i also felt like sometimes hamad's points got repetitive and seemed tangential or unrelated to the topic at hand (e.g. a whole chapter in the end that talks about the history of slavery without really relating it to gender in any way).