![]() ![]() Mohanty challenges the notions that over-categorize non-Western women without considering the class, ethnic, and racial contexts to which they belong to. ![]() This approach is keen, she argues, to label women in the Third World countries as “poor, uneducated, tradition-bound, and victimized,†i overlooking the extant complexity, diversity, and multiplicity of women in the non-Western world. ![]() She argues that the universal categorization of a large group of women in non-Western countries is mostly done through constructed monolithic terms and classifications. According to Mohanty, these writers draw attention to the codification of scholarly writings that discursively colonize and ghettoize non-Western, “Third World†women as the collective Other. More specifically, the author anchors her accounts of Western feminism in a select group of texts produced by Fran Hosken, Maria Cutrufelli, Juliette Minces, Beverly Lindsay, and Patricia Jeffery published by Zed Press in what is entitled the Third World Series. ![]() In Under the Western Eyes, Chandra Talpade Mohanty criticizes homogeneous perspectives and presuppositions in some of the Western feminist texts that focus on women in the third world. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, in Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. ![]()
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