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dc.rights.licenseAtribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
dc.contributor.authorMohanty, Chandra
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dc.date.issued1988
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dc.description.abstractIt ought to be of some political significance at least that the term 'colonization' has come to denote a variety of phenomena in recent feminist and left writings in general. From its analytic value as a category of exploitative economic exchange in both traditional and contemporary Marxisms (cf. particularly such contemporary scholars as Baran, Amin and Gunder-Frank) to its use by feminist women of colour in the US, to describe the appropriation of their experiences and struggles by hegemonic white women's movements,' the term 'colonization' has been used to characterize everything from the most evident economic and political hierarchies to the production of a particular cultural discourse about what is called the 'Third World.'2 However sophisticated or problematical its use as an explanatory construct, colonization almost invariably implies a relation of structural domination, and a discursive or political suppression of the heterogeneity of the subject(s) in question. What I wish to analyse here specifically is the production of the 'Third World Woman' as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts. The definition of colonization I invoke is a predominantly discursive one, focusing on a certain mode of appropriation and codification of 'scholarship' and '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.
dc.description.abstractDebería tener cierta importancia política el hecho de que el término "colonización" haya llegado a denotar una serie de fenómenos en los últimos escritos feministas y de la izquierda en general. Desde su valor analítico como categoría de intercambio económico explotador en los marxismos tradicionales y contemporáneos (cf. particularmente estudiosos contemporáneos como Baran, Amin y Gunder-Frank) hasta su uso por parte de las mujeres feministas de color en los EE.UU., para describir la apropiación de sus experiencias y luchas por parte de los movimientos hegemónicos de mujeres blancas, el término "colonización" se ha utilizado para caracterizar todo, desde las jerarquías económicas y políticas más evidentes hasta la producción de un discurso cultural particular sobre lo que se llama el "Tercer Mundo". 2 Por muy sofisticado o problemático que sea su uso como constructo explicativo, la colonización implica casi siempre una relación de dominación estructural y una supresión discursiva o política de la heterogeneidad del sujeto o sujetos en cuestión. Lo que deseo analizar aquí específicamente es la producción de la "mujer del Tercer Mundo" como un sujeto monolítico singular en algunos textos feministas (occidentales) recientes. La definición de colonización que invoco es predominantemente discursiva, y se centra en un determinado modo de apropiación y codificación de la "erudición" y el "conocimiento" sobre las mujeres del tercer mundo por parte de determinadas categorías analíticas empleadas en escritos sobre el tema que toman como punto de referencia principal los intereses feministas tal y como se han articulado en los Estados Unidos y Europa occidental.
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dc.sourcehttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/feminist-review/journal203522
dc.subject.ddc300 - Ciencias sociales::301 - Sociología y antropología
dc.titleUNDER WESTERN EYES: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
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dc.publisher.departmentTeoría y pensamiento feminista
dc.relation.citationendpage80
dc.relation.citationstartpage51
dc.relation.citationvolume30
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