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Overview
Definition of Terms
Postcolonial Feminist Theories
Chandra Mohanty
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Terms Colonialism- control by one power over a
dependent area
Imperialism- the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation by direct territorial acquisition or indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas
Hegemony-The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others
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Terms Ethnocentrism- based on the attitude that
one’s own group is superior
Third World- specific geographical areas and “imaginary spaces”
Latin America, the Caribbean, African, Southeast Asia, China, Oceania
Also includes people of color in the US, Europe and Australia- black, indigenous, Latino, Asian
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Postcolonial Feminist Theories Thinkers: Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Gayatri Spivak,
Chandra Mohanty, Maria Fernandez-Kelly, Maria Mies, Ester Boserup, Uma Narayan
Description of Problem:– Undercutting of women’s traditional
economic base by colonialism– Exploitation of women workers in the post-
colonial economy– Lack of education for girls– Inadequate maternal and child health care
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Postcolonial Feminist Theories Analysis:
– Sexism, racism, imperialism, capitalism, colonialism
– Patriarchal family structures– Traditional cultural practices that are
harmful to women Remedies:
– Protection of women’s economic resources in modernization
– Education, health care, family planning– Community women’s organizing– Eradication of practices such as female
genital mutilation
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Postcolonial Feminist Theories Contributions:
– Gender analyses of modernization and economic restructuring
– Data on exploitation of women and children workers
– Women’s rights as human rights– Understanding of connection between 1st
and 3rd world Shortcomings:
– Western ideas of women’s independence can undercut community
– Cultural diversity vs. universal women’s rights (micro vs. macro change)
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Chandra Mohanty “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing
Theory, Practicing Solidarity”
“Discursive colonization” of much Western feminist theory and scholarship
– Global hegemony of western scholarship
She provides:1. A critique of how Western feminists construct
the 3rd world and 3rd world women2. Creation of feminisms that are historically and
culturally grounded
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Chandra Mohanty Critique of Western Feminist Theory about 3rd
world women– Western feminists have created a binary of
Western vs. non-western– Produced work that has created a
monolithic, singular, universal 3rd world woman
– This 3rd world woman is uneducated, traditional, powerless, family-oriented, outside history, evolutionarily backward, and has no choices
– This conception limits knowledge of women globally and limits coalition-building
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Chandra Mohanty Invisibility of 3rd world feminism in
literature Creation of new types of feminisms and
feminist theories that include:– Local, cross-national, cross-cultural
analyses– Race, class, state, liberation struggles
• Examples/immigration laws, multinational companies and labor forces participation
– Imagined community- horizontal comradeship
• Political alliances rather than biological or cultural