Jessica Tipsord

Conclusion: 278-280

Tong likes forms of feminism that describe where women are now (at the margins, on the periphery) and forms that describe where women could be (in the center) because it is equally appealing to be an outsider (uncorrupted by the system) and an insider (part of the team). She used to think socialist feminism was the most inclusive form, but now she thinks ecofeminism is the most inclusive because it suggests how all systems of oppression reinforce one another. Multicultural, global, and postmodern feminists remind women not to judge one another. Tong feels stretched between women's sameness and women's differences. She is less concerned with labeling things correctly and more concerned with getting to know women who are not like her in order to learn from them. She suggests that attention to these differences will help women achieve unity. Tong says she is no longer seeking the meaning of life because she understands that change and growth are what is necessary to life. Feminist thought is liberating because of its "vitality, its refusal to stop changing, to stop growing" (280). Feminist thought is kaleidoscopic (i.e., women have many different thoughts of how to liberate themselves from oppression), but we should not see this as chaos. Tong likes the fact that feminist thought has no predetermined end because that allows each woman to think her own thoughts. "Not the truth but the truths will set women free" (280).