Gender: Equal Opportunity and Gender Identity: Feminist Encounters with Modernity and Postmodernity in Japan

The difficulty feminists have with postmodernism is thus clear. Although feminists share postmodernism's poststructuralist tendencies in dismantling universalist claims, which for them are more specifically defined as the claims of the white, male subject, they do not see their struggle against patriarchy as quite over . . . feminists, must always begin, as the nonWestern world must begin, with the legacy of the constellation of modernism and something more. While for the nonWestern world that something more is imperialism, for feminists it is patriarchy.9