Feminism and the Risks of High Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20052616 |
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| Authors | Taoufiq Sakhkhane (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 148-152 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Spivak and Postcolonialism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230349414_13 |
| OpenAlex | W2501344820 |
| ISBN | 9780230349414 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Spivak's critique of First World Feminism on the basis of the parochiality of its concerns may lead us as well to wonder if this condemnation of High Feminism can turn into a condemnation of Spivak herself; for her theorization of the clitoris as the site of woman's liberation hides the hideous truth that in the Third World, whereof she is taken as a proxy in the West, other concerns and preoccupations haunt women. Moreover, it displays how living in the bosom of the superpower and trying to grapple with its issues, Spivak sometimes tends herself to homogenize the Third World into the Third World woman whose sexual oppression and patriarchal subordination are the two major axes for self-identification. Sometimes, Spivak tends to conflate the agendas and blueprints of the First and Third World Feminists in a gesture to establish a common ground between the sisters in the two hemispheres.KeywordsHigh TheoryBuddhist MonkPredominant PoleWorld WomanDisparate DisciplineThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Feminism · Feminist theory · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Superpower · Third world · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Highly cited | No |
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