FEM 3106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Complex Analysis, The Exploited, Cultural Relativism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 3106
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

The work of transnational feminists work to introduce post-colonial discourse into previous discussions in and among feminism. Us policies and construction of oppressed muslim women (abu-lughod, 2011) Western feminist discourse and (cid:494)othering(cid:495) (cid:523)mohanty, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:883)(cid:524) (cid:498)under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. (cid:499) (cid:523)mohanty, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:883)(cid:524) Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others(cid:499) (cid:498)the (cid:494)gender lens(cid:495)(cid:499) a racial blinder? (cid:499) (cid:523)white, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:883)(cid:524) Western feminist discourse and (cid:494)othering(cid:495) (cid:523)mohanty, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:883)(cid:524: use the west as their reference point in (cid:494)othering(cid:495) non-western women, are trapped in a dualistic /binary representation (cid:523)the (cid:494)other(cid:495)(cid:524) based on. But no one challenges the western world: western feminists are too focused on non-western women, and non-western women are often not given the space/platform to use their voice to critique. In this way, the west remains un-critiqued; essentially untouchable sociological and anthropological generalizations. The lack of recognizing race can lead to the collapse of a social project.