Barriteau

After recently watching the speech Emma Watson made to launch the new campaign she is backing, "HeForShe" and along with reading this article by Barriteau, it stirs many feelings. Feelings that are more like a call to action. Watson said that if she was not meant to act, who would? And if not now, when?
Barriteau also addresses these issues through her work in the Caribbean, granted these women are speaking of very different demographics, but they both want the same thing. Barriteau writes, "To unravel the knot that surrounds power, and to investigate how our difficulty with power influences what issues receive our attention; to grapple with feminists’ ambivalence over power, how we come to power, claim it, respect it, and use it" (13). Women deserve to have power and need the tools to obtain them. Having that power is not easily made and like she says people often ignore what feminist have to say, especially black feminist.

Barriteau is saying that the Caribbean is stuck in a political discourse and because of this political unrest people, women, are unable to move forward. Barriteau calls for black feminist to stand up for what they want and in a way leave white feminist behind.  She also writes, "I believe that African and Caribbean feminists can benefit from assessing the conceptual tools offered by the vast body of work that comprises black feminist theory, and by examining the factors surrounding its relative absence in our intellectual and activist work (26). Barriteau wants women of the Caribbean to obtain, be provided with knowledge on black feminism. It should be available to everyone, especially the people it is affecting the most.

While Watson's speech and Barriteau's words might be wrong to compare side by side, the two both want action. Theories may push against motives of what each is saying but both in right in their beliefs to want women to want more.