Lastly, women of color recognize the issue of class and insist that any wisdom must begin with the poor. Howell uses Whiteheadian analysis to respond to these criticisms. Both are situated, making imperative discussions of race, class, disability, sexuality, etc. White feminists need to recognize the tension that has resulted from preoccupation with separatism which, in fact, has resulted in white feminists separating from other women. Howell takes the Whiteheadian notions of proposition, internal relations, causal efficacy and contrast as being particularly helpful.
Female friendship is a propositiona lure for feeling, a beckoning to a response.
Even the early lesbian feminists saw separatism as giving alternative possibilitiesa lure to genuine self away from female gender stereotypes. Women of color add to this. Delores Williams sees God as a way makerthe one who shows how to make a way out of no way. The Whiteheadian notions of internal relations and causal efficacy say that we are not wholly determined by our past but have freedom in the way we respond. Some relations can be trivialized.