WOMENST 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Islamic Feminism, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Grammatical Gender

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 2AA3
• Professor: Dr. Craig Jennex

Document Summary

Distinguished professor of women"s and gender studies at syracuse university. Most influential work is under western eyes (first published in 1988) Key figure in postcolonial and transnational feminist theorizing. Important works of feminist theory include: third world women, and the politics of. Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity (2003) Decolonizing feminist theory and decentering western hegemony in feminist discourse. Exploring the everyday and articulating feminist theories that allow for collective political action in everyday life. Here, and in her writing more broadly, mohanty identifies problematic direction feminisms interested only with women"s advancement up the corporate ladder. Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses . Mohanty argues that transnational feminist or third world feminism must: internal critique of western feminism especially that which assumes, production of feminist thought that is geographically, historically, and. It is in this process of discursive homogenization and systemization of the.