Western Feminist Scholarship
What is the main review Mohanty has about the Westen feminist scholarship?
She views it for the likelihood to normalize the experience of the third world woman who often views them as systemically marginalized without thinking about the harsh reality
What is the central argument of Ahamed "Affective Economies"
Ahmed argues that emotions are not psychological or personal states they are produced and circulated within cultural and social context.
What is the main focus of the essay?
The essay is centered on emotions that are a part of political practices.
Give an example of how Western feminist scholarship might impose Western standards on nonwestern women?
Criticizing cultural practices in non-Western societies without the understanding of the cultural significance of the woman within the society.
How does Ahmed's concept of affective economies challenge traditional views of emotion?
Ahmed's concept of affective economies challenges traditional views of emotion by having emotions of pure intention, rejection, and your own experience.
How does Narayan suggest emotions are the impact of political practice?
solidarity, able to unstedand and have empanty within one another, and influencing trust
What does Mohanty mean by the "homogenization of their world woman"?
Mohnety mentioned the likelihood of Western feminist scholarship to treat women from the South as a single, undifferentiated group, ignoring their social, cultural, and historical context.
What does Ahamed mean by the term "Affective economies"?
The term "Affective economies" means the way emotions spread around cultural and social contexts.
Name three challenges she identifies when working with differences
resentment, anger, distrust
How does Mohanty address the issue regarding power dynamics in feminist scholarship?
Mohanty says that the Western feminists have to be aware of the power dynamic within their own scholarship due to it being incidentally perpetuated by colonist attitudes and structured of oppression by the Western perspectives and women out of the West.
How does Ahamed talk about the role of emotions in shaping social and political life?
Name an example of how emotions can ease political alliance
Soildarity in the feminist movenment
Why does Mohanty advocate for an intersectional approach in feminist analysis
Mohanty advocates for an intersectional approach in feminist analysis because it allows for a better understanding of different factors, for example, race, culture, class, and history which are what shaped the experiences and identity of women in different contexts.
Public opinion, opinion on immigration, social, policies
How does Narayan adress the emotional challenges within political pracrtice?
Empathy, creaticing safe spaces for honesty, having space for no judgement, communication