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Amyaz Moledina

Feminism and Postcolonialism - 1 views

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  • Firstly, both discourses are predominantly political and concern themselves with the struggle against oppression and injustice.
  • Moreover, both reject the established hierarchical, patriarchal system, which is dominated by the hegemonic white male, and vehemently deny the supposed supremacy of masculine power and authority. Imperialism, like patriarchy, is after all a phallocentric, supremacist ideology that subjugates and dominates its subjects. The oppressed woman is in this sense akin to the colonized subject. Essentially, exponents of post-colonialism are reacting against colonialism in the political and economic sense while feminist theorists are rejecting colonialism of a sexual nature.
  • Both women and ‘natives' are minority groups who are unfairly defined by the intrusive ‘male gaze' , which is a characteristic of both patriarchy and colonialism.
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  • Both peoples have been reduced to stereotypes
  • to what extent this affects the lives of colonial subjects who also happen to be female,
  • In the 1980s, feminist critics Hazel Carby and Sara Suleri began to sense that Western feminism was rooted in a bourgeois, euro-centric prejudice that had to be remedied in order to avoid the continued neglect of the so-called 'Third World woman'. Chandra Talpade Mohanty for one is severely critical of regarding all women as a homogeneous group, without taking into account inevitable differences in ethnicity and circumstance. I would agree that this failure to acknowledge historical specificity is as damaging as other assumptions based in chauvinism and ignorance
  • Amyaz Moledina on 21 Feb 13
     
    A nice summary that relates feminism to post colonial discourses. A few questions come to mind. How have women in the experience of micro finance been "colonized"?
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