Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Global Feminism, Intersectionality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Kim Verwaayen

Document Summary

Today"s terms: feminism and global relevance, third worlds, third world women, discourse; colonialism; imperialism, selfie humanitarianism, global feminism. First being the developed counties, and then third is everything else, undeveloped, underdeveloped, developing. Problem: feminism is supposed to represent women; to give women voices, support their empowerment, gender balance, intersectionality, label box; whatever you put in the box is subject to a force of exclusion, liberal concept. The third world women: construct not a reality, not real women but the idea of those women and mostly about stereotypes, she suggests that some western feminist writing works to discursively colonize women in the glo(cid:271)al south .