SOSA 3225 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Frelimo, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Burqa

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 3225
• Professor: Laura Eramian

Document Summary

Explain the significance of the concept of orientalism for understanding the arguments advanced by. Mohanty and abu-lughod on western feminists" representations of third world and muslim women, respectively. Oriental gaze is a homogenized view of eastern societies as all fundamentally the same. East is represented as in total opposite to west; as an other" without internal diversity. Perpetuates colonial negative stereotypes which highlight western dominance/superiority; defines west in an opposition that is self-congratulatory. Figure of third world woman tells us more about westerners and how they see themselves than about explaining third world women. Critiques the idea of the third world women, because it is an abstract categorization that suggests homogeneity and interchangeability. Developed exclusively by western feminist scholars who apply a host of stereotypes to this woman". Ignorant, sexually repressed, waiting to be saved, traditional, dependent, victims, poor, uneducated, religious, domestic-oriented . Western women are called to help change this other" woman to be more like them.