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What is Imperialism? |
Any system of domination and subordination organized with an imperial center and a dominated periphery Ex: Empire: ruled by one supreme being |
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What is Colonialism? |
The practice of acquiring political control overanother country/territory, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting iteconomically
- European colonial Period was the longest periodof colonial rule - Expansion of empire was an economic (Sugar plantations were exploited) |
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How did the colonial trade routes affect the world? |
They caused major evolutionary jumps were made – animals/horticultural trade across the globe They stole indigenous knowledge – quinine protect from malaria and they also spread diseases across the world |
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What is neocolonialism? |
The practice of using capitalism, globalization, and cultural forces to control a country (usually former European & U.S. colonies in Africa or Asia) in lieu of direct military or political control -Existing or past international economic arrangements created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movement of the post-World War II period -The colonies that were exploited are usually the most disadvantaged |
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What are some of the methods of control that neocolonialism uses? |
- Multinational corporations -NGOs & development schemes -International financial institutions o The world bank o The international monetary fund o The world trade organization o The group of eight o The world economic forum |
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What are transnational feminists? |
-Intersectional Concerns: how globalization &capitalism affect people across nations, genders, sexualities, classes,ethnicities -Strategy for bringing together questions ofidentity with material conditions -Support liberal feminist emphasis on rights, butidentifies western cultural imperialism in some responses (Western feminism overemphasizes gender roles asthe sole reason for women’s oppression) |
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What are the prominent themes in transnational feminism? |
- Organization - Borderland identities - Education disparities by gender - Health and Reproduction (economics & public health) - Violence against sex/gender minorities - Global Economy * Environment (development schemes, food & farming, conservation) * Gender division of labor * Care/Affect economies (comfort women, domestic service, sex tourism) - Decentering western feminism & limits of comparative feminisms * "global sisterhood" * speaking for * media representation (veil debates, voyeurism) |
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What did Stoler talk about in "Carnal Knowledge & Imperial Power"? |
The consequences of colonial expansion - How the indigenous people are 'Othered' - examines how Europeans imagine themselves based on asymmetries of race, class, and gender |
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What did Bell Hooks talk about in "Sisterhood is Still Powerful"? |
- How the slogan was initially very powerful as the feminist movement was about creating a foundation of solidarity - However, there became internalized sexism and classism |
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What was Stoler's thesis in "Carnal Knowledge & Imperial Power"? How was it intersectional? |
- she said that the gender inequalities and sexual control were essential to the structure of colonial racism and imperial authority |
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How did Stoler argue that colonial authority was constructed on false premises?
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1) Europeans in colonies are made up of an easily identifiable and discrete biological and social entity; a 'natural community of common class interest, racial attributes, political affinities, and superior culture 2) The boundaries separating colonizer from colonized were thus self-evident and easily drawn |
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What is the colonial race-sex-gender binary system? |
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By what means and in what ways was sex controlled in order to delineate race and class? |
Sexual sanctions and conjugal prohibitions were rigorously debated and carefully codified 1. European female emigration was discouraged 2. Concubinage established and preferred 3. Marriage prohibitions 4. Reinvigorating racial stratifications with European women emigration 5. Confinement of european woemn |
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Who is Chandra Talpade Mohanty? |
She is a transnational feminist whose mission is to build non-colonizing feminist solidarity across borders through intersectional analyses |
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How does Chandra Talpade Mohanty use vision as a metaphor in Under Western Eyes? |
Vision is a metaphor to described the colonial lens, western hegemony, surveillance and paternalistic concern Used to describe how Third World Women are portrayed as politically immature women who need to be versed and school in the ethos of Western feminism. |
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What problems in feminism does Mohanty critique? |
The singular, monolithic, ahistorical, decontextualized productions by some western feminist 1. The 'Third World Women' : that they lead sexually constrained lives and are uneducated, domestic, ignorant, poor, victimized 2. Patriarchy: argue against the sole sexual difference in the form of a singular notion of male domination that reality is always constructed by exclusive divisions of victims and oppressors 3. The 'Third World Difference': That these regions are not progressive, traditional, ignorant, and backwards |
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How is the “Third World Woman,” Patriarchy, & The “Third World Difference” are re/produced? |
- Womenas victims of male violence -Women as Universal Dependents -Married Women as Victims of Colonialism -Women & Familial Systems -Women & Religious Ideologies -Women & Development |
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Who said, “Itis only insofar as ‘woman/women’ and ‘the East’ are defined as others, or asperipheral, that (Western) man/humanism can represent him/itself as the center”? |
Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
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Who said, “Withoutthe overdetermined discourse that creates the Third World, there would be no(singular and privileged) First World”? |
Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
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Who said, "Westernfeminists construct selves as “normative referent” in binary “First Worldwoman-Third World woman” analytic"? |
Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
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Who said, “Westernfeminist scholarship cannot avoid the challenge of situating itself andexamining its role in such a global economic and political framework. To do anyless would be to ignore the complex interconnections between First and ThirdWorld economies and the profound effect of this on the lives of women in allcountries”? |
Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
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What is the global sisterhood as defined by Hooks and Mohanty? |
Hooks: - feminist sisterhood is rooted in the shared commitment to struggle against the patriarchal injustice no matter the form - We need to have a renewed commitment to political solidarity between women, we are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood Mohanty: - Analysis of women as a stable category assumes a universal unity based on generalized notion of their subordination but this completely bypasses social class and ethnic identities - The sisterhood prioritizes gender over everything else |
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How does Mohanty argue that we can overcome the colonial lens? |
-By using careful politically focused and local analysis -Identifying that woman is a contextually constructed category - By making no easy generalizations - Making sure women are not cast as passive or obedient - avoiding victimized narrative - By applying friendship and reciprocity from personal to transnational contexts - By being reflective and dominate women relinquishing power (listening to other women) |
