Women in the Global South: Representation and Resistance
Please follow the instructions carefully and answer all of the items. All return assignments are check for plagiarism prior to releasing payment. Do not use Wikipedia. Only use sources from the readings listed below.
Required Reading:
1. Chandra T. Mohanty. 2006. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. In Chandra T. Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, Duke University Press, 5th printing. Pp. 221-252.
2. http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~alexroni/IPD%202015%20readings/IPD%202015_5/under-western-eyes.pdf
3. Kumari Jayawardena. 2014 (1995). Introduction: The Noble and the Ignoble: White Women as Goddesses and Devils. In The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during British Rule. New York, Routledge. Pp. 1-18.
Assignment:
Please note that you may use the prompt questions to structure your answer. You are also free to just prepare a summary of the key points the authors of the assigned readings are making. A third option is to come up with your own questions and to address those questions in your reflection paper.
Questions:
1) What comes to your mind when you think about South Asia or women in South Asia? Why?
2) What ideas, images, and stereotypes do we often come across? In what ways are these stereotypes harmful?
3) Summarize Mohanty’s critique of mainstream feminist research. What purposes do constructions of women in the Third World as ‘Other’ serve?
4) Outline Jayawardena’s key arguments. Do these arguments overlap with Mohanty’s critiques of mainstream feminist research? In what ways?
5) browse through the website of The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) www.rawa.org and write a brief comment on one of their activities.
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