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Gender and North/South Divide - Coggle Diagram
Gender and North/South Divide
Key Terms:
Development
Gender
Western Feminist
North/South Divide
NGOs (non-government organizations) started to be seen as less naive, but seen as showing discrimination concerning the institutional, discursive, economic and political constraints with how they work
The volunteers for this study weren't operating in the correct way, because of that there was discrimination and perpetuated gender and racial stereotypes
In "Under Western Eyes", the author writes about "that I wish to analyze here specifically is the production of the 'Third World Woman' as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts."
The similar effects of various analytical categories and strategies that codify their relationship to the Other in implicitly hierarchical terms. It is in this sense that to use the term 'western feminist'
Women in the North want to "do good" by supporting the women in the South
They try to help either by getting involved in international work, or by working for national and local projects in European states targeting female migrants
Issue is that ".. it reflects the critique articulated by the black women’s movement in the 1980s, which asserted that their experiences were not taken into account by the mainstream white, middle-class feminist movement ." (Complicit Sisters)
"Complicit Sisters" talks about the experiences of female development workers or offered reflections on gender dynamics at work
Uses an intersectional perspective
The book is attentive to different categories, like gender, “race,” class, and nationality, intersect in the lived experience of the women
"for the purpose of this study, which was to gain insight into the perspectives and reflections of women who support women across North–South divides, the interviewed women—though selected on the basis of their work for certain organizations—spoke in their personal capacity and not as representatives of their institutions"(Complicit Sisters)
Feminist writing in the US is still marginalized (except from point of view of women of color addressing privileged white women), western feminist writing on women in the third world "must be considered in the context of the global hegemony of western scholarship, like the production, publication, distribution and consumption of information and ideas." (Under Western Eyes)
These writings have effects on more people than just their intended audience
Which is why the need for understanding the implications of the writings and their effects towards people