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Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955) is a prominent postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist.

She became well-known after the publication of her influential essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" in 1986. In this essay, Mohanty critiques the political project of Western feminism in its discursive construction of the category of the "Third World woman" as a hegemonic entity. Mohanty states that Western feminisms have tended to gloss over the differences between Southern women, but that the experience of oppression is incredibly diverse, and contingent on geography, history, and culture.

In 2003, Chandra Mohanty released her book, "Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity". I...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 507 ratings · 29 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity 4.15 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editor), Ann Russo (Editor), Lourdes Torres (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Third World Feminism. 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Feminism and War by Robin L. Riley (Editor), Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editor), Minnie Bruce Pratt (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jaquai Alexander (Editor), Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	The Slate of Life: More Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India by Laura Kalpakian, Kali for Women, Kali for Women Editors 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sage Handbook of Identities by Margaret Wetherell (Editor), Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Quotes by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.”
― Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

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