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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial

                                            Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Western Feminism: " Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses " is an essay that addresses how Western feminist scholars characterize women of the third world as a single cohesive group. Mohanty further explains that grouping all third-world women together is not an effective way to tackle problems or create change. " Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses " is an academic essay written from the third-person point of view by feminist scholar Chandra Talpade Mohanty . She explains that she is not against the practice of generalization altogether because it is necessary to conduct studies. She says, " The assumption of women as a ... coherent group with identical interests and desires, regardless of class, ethnic or racial location or contradictions, implies a notion of gender or sexual difference.”  Mohanty gives an

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