"Women must fight and realize the system that is controlling and denying them, that system is patriarchal and phallocratic. Many were unconscious whether to rebel against this system that exploits them or accept it and remained in slavery. So many women were confused on what they should do because if they rebel they were dehumanized and disposed of."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Women's rights activistsWomen politicians in SenegalWomen academics from SenegalAuthors from Senegal
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Awa_Thiam
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Awa Thiam
Awa Thiam was born 1950 and is a Senegalese politician, academic, writer, and activist. She serves as Senegal's Director of the National Center for Assistance and Training of Women under the Ministry of Women and Children. She is an advocate against female genital mutilation (FGM), which she speaks on in her 1978 book La Parole aux négresses (also published in English in 1986 as Black Sisters, Speak Out: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa). She has a body of work published internationally,
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Awa Thiam →
Related Quotes
"The European view point of exploitation of women in Europe compared to the African American women shows an inaccurate…"
"Phallocratic and patriarchy maintained sexual violence and controlled women. Their way of controlling was to rape, fe…"
"In the phallocratic system European women and African women suffers oppression and exploitation by the capitalist as …"
"The European feminist imposed the false argument “Rape is to women what lynching is to Blacks”. Women in the text suf…"
"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangl…"
"Our laws then will be uncompulsory rules, Our prisons converted to national schools."
"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will …"
"Her death was the loss of a dedicated anti-racist, a valued sister, and a friend we loved...Andaiye's anthology, publ…"
"...this volume will occupy a vaunted place alongside the writings of C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Sylv…"
"For us, here, a key aspect of anti-austerity organizing we would need to take back up is the search for an alternativ…"