What about the women-only and women-led villages in Kenya: does this version of separatism empower women, or does it simply provide an escape from an oppressive culture?

2. Frye argues that feminism requires as one of its many features ‘an element of separation’. What does she mean by separation, in both theoretical and practical terms? How does this differ from patriarchal sex-segregation (as described, for example, by Abu-Rabia-Queder)? What about the women-only and women-led villages in Kenya: does this version of separatism empower women, or does it simply provide an escape from an oppressive culture? Or, perhaps, is the escape the point? Is something like the Jane collective to provide abortions a separatist endeavor? Or, from the opposite perspective, are Kelly’s crisis pregnancy centers a form of separatism? How so? Finally, do all forms of identity politics necessitate some kind of separation? If so, what does that mean for those with “compound identities” (Crenshaw)?

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