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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Mohanty, Chandra·1988·Feminist Review
DOI 10.1057/fr.1988.42
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knowledge' about women in the third world by particular analytic categories employed in writings on the subject which take as their primary point of reference feminist interests as they have been articulated in the US and western Europe.My concern about such writings derives from my own implication and investment in contemporary debates in feminist theory, and the urgent political necessity of forming strategic coalitions across class, race and national boundaries.Clearly, western feminist discourse and

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  • Analyses of 'male violence' must be theorised and interpreted within specific societies in order to better understand it and effectively organise to challenge it.

    “As Mohanty (1988) and others argue, analyses of 'male violence' must be theorised and interpreted within specific societies in order to better understand it and effectively organise to challenge it.”

    From Teaching about Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Africa: complex questions of culture, “development” and human rights (2020) · cites this paper as Mohanty (1988)

  • Rights-based interventions on FGM/C and other harmful cultural practices affecting women in the Majority world are in danger of being based on neocolonial attitudes that lack understanding for 'non-Western' cultures unless they are led by women and men (and girls and boys) from communities where these customs are practised, and are connected to broader structural issues of education, health, and贫困

    “unless rights-based interventions on FGM/C and other harmful cultural practices affecting women in the Majority world are led by women and men (and I would add girls and boys) from communities where these customs are practised, and are connected to broader structural issues of education, health, and poverty reduction programmes, such interventions are in danger of being based on neocolonial attit”

    From Teaching about Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Africa: complex questions of culture, “development” and human rights (2020) · cites this paper as Mohanty (1988)

  • FGM/C rights-based interventions may also be criticised as being driven by 'Western' donor concerns that 'lack respect' for particular cultures and perpetuate colonial and modernist discourses that construct culture and tradition as 'backward'.

    “FGM/C rights-based interventions may also be criticised as being driven by 'Western' donor concerns that 'lack respect' for particular cultures and perpetuate colonial and modernist discourses that construct culture and tradition as 'backward' (Mohanty, 1988; see also Potter et al, 2012).”

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Authors
Mohanty, C.
Corresponding author
Mohanty, Chandra
Venue
Feminist Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1988-11
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
61-88
ISSN
  • 0141-7789 (ISSN-L)
  • 1466-4380
DOI
10.1057/fr.1988.42
OpenAlex
W1987351853
Cited by
4,855
References
1
Citations by year
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FWCI
12.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
correction (1989-03-01)
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Feminist Review (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
Keywords
feminist scholarship, colonial discourse, women in the Global South, Western feminism, feminist theory, knowledge production, race and class, decolonization

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