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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
Abstract Mohanty critiques how Western feminist scholarship constructs 'Third World women' as a singular, homogeneous group through specific analytical categories. She argues this discursive colonialism ignores geographical, historical, and cultural differences, reducing non-Western women to images of tradition, powerlessness, and oppression. The article calls for autonomous feminist theories grounded in specific historical and cultural contexts while critiquing hegemonic feminist discourse.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty / Read paper