SOCI 3P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sex Assignment, Glaad, Trans Woman
28 Mar 2017
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Best known for her work on the subaltern. Under western eyes : intervention: critique of and challenge to western feminism"s tendency to flatten or erase the heterogeneity (made up of parts that are different) of third world women"s experiences. Post-colonial critiques of western feminism & the third world woman . The third world woman (mohanty: victim discourses, homogenization / universalism, the importance of context. Stressing the importants about talking about geography, etc specific context of womans lives. Ex: someone living in a rural area compared to an urban area. Critiques: critique of victim discourses, move against universalism. Nothing univercal about women the genetic makeup and. Experieances or essentail about woman that makes them in a. Feminist killjoys: getting in the way of peoples joy, its important to celebrate diversity, someone who has critical consciousness. Think in arendts perspective you have to think from the perspective of the other to be able to fully understand the misogony.
