WRDS 150 Lecture Notes - Sylvia Walby, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Knowledge

• School: UBC
• Department: Art Studies in Writing
• Course: WRDS 150
• Professor: Katie Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Introduction: antiracist feminist activism occurs outside the rubric of such movements. Decolonizing feminist scholarships: 1986 struggles: also, to expose the power-knowledge nexus of feminist cross-cultural scholarship expressed through eurocentric, falsely universalizing methodologies that serve the narrow self-interest of. It was also crucial to highlight the connection between feminist scholarship and feminist political. Third world feminists in order to decide what counts as difference. In fact, mohanty is claiming, via a complex and subtle argument, that she is right and that (much) white western feminism is not merely different, but wrong. In doing this she assumes a common question, a common set of concepts and, ultimately the possibility of, a common political project with white feminism. She hopes to argue white feminism into agreeing with her. She is not content to leave white western feminism as a situated knowledge, comfortable with its local and partial perspective. This is a claim to a more universal truth.