Negative attitudes to feminism

• it is Western

• it applies to women in industrial societies

• it is part of the Western feminist movement

• it was about not wanting babies

• it was about women wanting to be separate from the rest of society

• it would undermine the traditional power source of women in the Pacific, which is the family

• it was about women being discriminated against (women in the Pacifiic were not discriminated against)

• it was a white women's feminism which arose out of their experiences and their approach. This approach focussed on personal lives rather than looking at society as a whole

• it would segregate men and women.