WOMENST 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Islamic Feminism, Heteropatriarchy, Lorde

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 2AA3
• Professor: Dr. Craig Jennex

Document Summary

Next thursday guest lecture nisha is coming in. Concerned with theorizing how race and gender intersect when it comes to. Transnational ( third world or postcolonial feminism) women"s oppression. Example) audre lorde"s age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference . Concerned with addressing the (often-unacknowledged) dominance of whiteness, Critiquing racist/ eurocentric/ western underpinnings of feminist theory. Developing new theories that take racial and cross- cultural difference as well as global inequalities into account. Big thing developing coalition and collaboration with feminists across the (1984) Concerned with theorizing how imperialism and colonialism shape global relations, gender, and patriarchy. Seeks to build political coalition across differences of geography through overt attention to (western) privilege in feminist movements/thought world not ignoring differences or forcing a homogeneous outlook. Critiques ways third world women are produced in western discourse. Examples) chandra mohanty"s, under western eyes: feminist scholarship and. Colonial discourses (1986) and thobani"s article sexism inform women"s oppression.