1. Western feminists often frame women's issues in contexts of the "third world" and "developing countries." This creates a monolithic picture of women in the two-thirds world.
Mohanty (1984) is concerned here with generalizing about issues faced by women around the globe. She argues that Western feminists tend to look at women's experiences in the two-third world outside of the context of economic issues. Instead, feminism should look at the ways that women are constituted within those circumstances.
2. Methods that promote this type of essentialism have a colonizing influence. Western feminists should not ignore the complexities of intersection oppressions like class and ethnicity.
Mohanty (1984) urges feminist scholars to consider the complex interaction of many factors in contributing to women's oppression in the two-thirds world and elsewhere. She argues that scholars should include analyses of:
A. concrete historical and political practice,
B. specific local contexts, and
C. contradictions inherent in women's intersectional identities.
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