Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Neoliberalism, Bell Hooks, Liberal Feminism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Laura Cayen

Document Summary

Challenge the eurocentrism of western colonialist thinking that works to invalidate and subjugate the contributions of women, particularly those of the. Ethnocentrism/eurocentrism: judging another culture based on the assumptions of one"s own culture. Typically refers to the privileging of western practices and modes of thought. Object to global power relations that position the world in binary terms (ex. First/third, global south/north, the west/the rest, racialized/white). (p. 104) Object to global power relations that enable the west to exploit and appropriate the resources of the south. Results in the poverty, illiteracy, poor health care and education systems that some of us identify as being inherently associated with the south. "postcolonial and transnational feminisms reject linear views of history and unidirectional flows of culture, knowledge, and social change, as well we the hierarchies of north/south" (p. 108) "transnational means that issues/people/goods/finances/ideas cross national borders and therefore, demand a global understanding " (p 109)