FEM 2109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Corporate Capitalism, Heteronormativity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Ishara Mahat

Document Summary

Under western eyes resisted: feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles. Was to expose the power-knowledge nexus of feminist cross-cultural scholarship. Drew attention to the political implications of western analytic strategies and principles. Cross-cultural feminist work must be attentive to the micro politics of context, subjectivity, and struggle. Historical materialism was used as a basic framework. Argued the tw needed to be recognized and de ned through oppression and in terms of historical complexities. Believed in the importance of the particular in relation to the universal. Drew attention to the dichotomies identi es by the universal framework and the critique of. Wished to build a non colonizing feminist solidarity across borders. Wanted to create a space for tw, immigrant and other marginalized scholars who saw themselves erased within dominant euro-american scholarship. Native/indigenous struggles were not addressed in the rst edition. These struggles cannot be easily address under the purview of tw and western categories as they don"t follow a postcolonial trajectory.