ABSTRACT
This chapter considers each feminist tendency as it bears on questions raised in Africanist circles about the existence and nature of African feminisms relative to Western feminisms. The theoretical work of Marjorie Mbilinyi, a multi-identified Tanzanian feminist, and Kathy Ferguson, a Western feminist theorist, are probed for the connections they raise and the possibilities they harbor for traveling toward a method of empathetic cooperation across, but with an eye on registering, feminist differences. The three feminist quotations offered above suggest something of what the journey entails: achieved plural identities, juggled cultures, and ambivalences turned into feminist politics rather than feminist lifestyle sanctuaries. World traveling can also affect feminist theory by illuminating the fulcrum of two of the largest contingents of feminist marchers—standpointers and postmodernists. Standpoint feminism is often accused of seeking alternative truth in the experiences of an unproblematized woman—who is usually white and Western.
