Postcolonial feminism?

Chambers, Claire; Watkins, Susan

doi:10.1177/0021989412456167

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“…What this chapter does however seek to achieve, is to challenge Western liberal feminist scholarship for its universalising and colonising tendencies. It furthermore calls for all feminisms to be historically and geographically grounded and to engage productively with difference (Chambers & Watkins, 2012…”

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A postcolonial feminist critique of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A South African application

Struckmann

2018

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By submitting this thesis electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the sole author thereof (save to the extent explicitly otherwise stated), that reproduction and publication thereof by Stellenbosch University will not infringe any third party rights and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification.

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A postcolonial feminist critique of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A South African application

Struckmann

2018

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“…This chapter's theoretical lens assumes anchorage upon Chambers and Watkins' [16] remark that, it is axiomatic that most significant work in Postcolonial Theory and Criticism deals with questions of gender and sexuality. Therefore, the theoretical fulcrum of this paper is Postcolonial Feminism, by which it is meant a sketching out of the "processes by which gender and sexuality are necessarily imbricated in colonialism and its legacies", which "cannot be neglected by postcolonial critics ( [16]:297). Clearly, "feminists collide with postcolonials on the understandings of the 'third world women' and the overruling of gender hierarchies in racialized spaces" ( [17]:371).…”

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“…Postcolonialism and Feminism merge successfully because they both "stand resolutely in support of subversion and change in the political, cultural and social landscape; not just to bridge the distance between the centre and the margins but also to bring the knowledge of and from the margins to the centre" (Parashar, ibid). Postcolonial Feminists thus essentially "argue for the historical and geographical specificity of feminisms, and their capacity to engage productively with difference" ( [16]:299). Put more tersely by Parashar, Postcolonialism offers Feminism the conceptual tool box to see multiple sites of oppression and to reject universalisms around gendered experiences of both men and women ( [17]:371).…”

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Perspective Chapter: The Female Body on the Phallocentric Altar – Appropriations of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Feminist Manifesto

Sebola¹

2023

Feminism - Corporeality, Materialism, and Beyond

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This chapter reflects on how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in multifarious ways, projects and confronts a nuanced (and blatant) exaltation of maleness over femaleness in her fiction. Adichie’s fiction mainly presents (Black) women as constantly living in patriarchal and repressive spaces characterised by multifaceted discriminations, marginalisation, abuse, commodification and censorship, all of which are protracted by the notion that femaleness should live in total subjection to maleness. To instantiate her opposition to this practice, Adichie accords authoritative roles and voices to her female characters, despite their living under repressive and constraining spaces. Reliant on the postcolonial feminist theory, this chapter analyses some of Adichie’s prose works, namely; Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and The Thing Around Your Neck to foreground appropriation of her feminist manifesto. The analysis positions Adichie’s prose as one that falls within the ambits of contemporary literary works that project women confronting and contesting hydra-headed manifestations of patriarchal repression, its attendant practices and ideologies, and gender inequality. Adichie’s prose is herein appraised as a literary space within which varied socio-cultural trajectories and gender inequalities in particular are expressed in a postcolonial context.

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“…All this points us back to JCL ’s founding principles. First with Susan and then Rachael, I have been eager to publish articles that scrutinize the involvement of gender and sexuality in colonialism (see Chambers and Watkins, 2012: 297; Chambers and Watkins, 2015: 260; Chambers and Gilmour, 2016: 4). Another of our most pressing concerns over the last decade has been the progressively more marketized neoliberal conditions in universities worldwide, which impact disproportionately on women and on ethnic-minority and younger colleagues.…”

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