Under Western Eyes (boundary 2, 1984)

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Feminist scholar Chandra Talpade Mohanty criticised Western feminist research for presenting “Third World women” as a single, passive, oppressed group, erasing the differences in their histories, struggles and agency.

A founding text of transnational and postcolonial feminism, it connects with questions we raised in our Persepolis and The Patriarchs sessions about the colonial gaze in Western feminism.

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