Abstract
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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Chandra Talpade Mohanty
(1988).
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.
Feminist Review
, 30
(1)
, 61-88.
https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.1988.42
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- 10.1057/fr.1988.42