Define the following terms 100 words each
Gendered globalization
UN Women’s Decade
Gender mainstreaming
“Rescue paradigm”
Politics of location
Answer the following (500 words)
In 2021, a 23-year-old student was gang raped by six men in New Delhi bus (Times of India, 2014). The incident received widespread coverage by international media so much that the phrase “the Indian gang rape” became a shorthand descriptor for the event. When the rape was described as a cultural issue of the “backwardness” of India, many feminists in North America positioned themselves as saviors.
One of the most explicit examples of Western feminist attempt to “save their global sisters” comes from the Harvard College Women’s Center when it announced a policy task force to offer recommendations to India and other South Asian countries. Angered by the assumption that Indian women needed the North American expertise, a group of Indian feminists published online a response letter (https://kafila.online/2013/02/20/dear-sisters-and-brothers-at-harvard/). Use this letter and Chandra Mohanty’s theory to analyze the relationship between Western and Indian feminisms.
Tips: read the letter closely, what are some issues the Indian feminists are addressing here? Uneven power distribution? Troubles of global sisterhood and solidarity? Orientalism? Then perform a close reading of “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Think about how Western feminist discourse homogenizes women in the third world/global south/rest of the world. What are some of the results and effect of such homogenization? What purposes do these Western-centric assumptions serve? What are some problems of these assumptions? https://kafila.online/2013/02/20/dear-sisters-and-brothers-at-harvard/
^ please use this link to read the letter
Answer the following (500 words)
WOMEN OF COLOR
Do some research online and find a woman of color feminist (broadly defined here) who you find interesting, inspiring, or controversial. This person could be someone we covered in class readings or someone you find elsewhere. They could be a scholar, activist, artist, and/or political figure…Write a short introduction of the feminist (their bio, work and arguments/claims—appx. 200-250 words), choose one quote from them, and explain why the quote resonates with you (appx. 200-250 words). The word count does not include the quote you provide.
