PAP 3325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Deconstruction, Presupposition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3325
• Professor: Ishara Mahat

Document Summary

Sept. 15 lecture - mohanty, t. c. , (2003) under western eyes feminist. Scholarship and colonial discourses , in feminism without borders, decolonizing. Discussion of the intellectual and political construction of third world feminisms must address two simultaneous projects: o. Internal critique of hegemonic western feminisms and the formulation of autonomous feminist concerns and strategies that are geographically, historically, and culturally grounding: first project = deconstruction and dismantlement o. Colonization almost invariably implies a relation of structural domination and a suppression -- often violent -- of the heterogeneity of the subject(s) in question. In terms of feminist scholarship, it"s not the mere production of knowledge about a certain subject; a directly political and discursive practice in that it is purposeful and ideological o. Inscribed in relations of power -- relations that they counter, resist, or even perhaps implicitly support. Woman - cultural and ideological composite other constructed through diverse representational discourses. Women - real, material subjects of their collective histories.