Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial      Discourses.” Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. 17-42. Print.

“Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” is an essay by Chandra Talpade Mohanty reprinted in the 2003 book, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing by Duke University Press, in which she criticizes the practices in Western Feminist Theory. She claims Western Feminists have provided a very superficial and ethnocentric analysis of feminist issues in Third World and have thereby created a stereotypical and ultimately useless image of the Third World Woman. As a solution she attempts to persuade Western Feminist Scholars to better meet the needs of each woman by contextualizing all the history, practices, legalities, and economic issues of Third World women within their respective countries and identities. In order to persuade her audience she first defines the misrepresented Third World woman and then points out where in the most common forms of feminist theory analysis the fallacy occurred that led to a poor representation of third world women.

The topic of Mohanty’s paper fits with our research topic of Feminism because it attempts to address the issue of intersectionality within feminism, which says that people have multiple identities that lead to a difference in grievances that need to be addressed. I am using it as my main scholarly text and providing my concurrence while criticizing her intense level of desired intersectionality which makes its nearly impossible for the movement to move forward effectively.