Relation of the Concept of Colonization and Feminist Theory

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Final Paper: Question #3
Please Use Bell Hooks, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, And/Or Meyda Yegenoglu (Please Use At Least Two Authors) To Discuss Black and Postcolonial Women’s Critiques of White and Western Liberal Feminism. What Is Their Critique? How Do These Authors Reformulate, From the Historical Experiences Of Women Of Color And Women From The Non-Western World, The Definition Of Feminism?
Feminist theory has developed and evolved over the years in an attempt to describe the experiences and challenges that women experience in society as well as providing mechanisms that will place women on a competitive level with their male counterparts. Nevertheless, different women experience different challenges in their specific environments. For instance, African American or Black women have gone through numerous challenges in trying to raise their status in the community. Moreover, for several years, these challenges and experiences have had no place in academic discussions. As such, the feminist theory of black women was somewhat construed as similar to that of women of other races. However, this general interpretation and application of feminism have not done any justice to Black women.
The trajectory of emancipation of women is a journey that has taken several years through several generations. The emancipation of women is a struggle to attain equality and freedom for women in society. As a result of cultural traditions and beliefs that have characterized the patriarchal English society, women have traditionally been treated as second-class citizens. They have been denied rights and certain fundamental freedoms. Women have gone through several hurdles and challenges. For instance, women have been victims of social, political, and economic exclusion, which made it difficult for them to participate effectively in socio-economic and political development. Consequently, women who braved to stand against the social status and congestions that were prevented in the colonial times sacrificed themselves to craft a new way for women to attain a significant level of freedom. Women have come so far in encouraging each other to fight for their freedom in expressing themselves, especially in written literature. Literature traditions and talents have been established due to the common goals and experiences of different women who have fought for the recognition of feminine literature. The emancipation of women is a prominent feature of women writing. While women made significant progress in fighting for equity in other spheres of life, most of the non-Western Women feminists remained unappreciated for a long time. Women have struggled to be given the literary space they deserve to express themselves. Pioneer non-Western Women feminists encountered several challenges in gaining acceptance in the Western society.
Nevertheless, black and post-colonial feminist theory also understands that in as much as there are commonalities in terms of perceptions of feminism among black women, differences in class, age, religion, and social orientation may also give rise to different perspectives on their feminist theory. Therefore, the broader themes covered in black and post-colonial feminist theory can be expressed differently by different black women on the basis of the distinctions identifies above. As a result, black and post-colonial feminist theory puts together a theoretical framework that can be used to understand black women in general as well as in the specific ways in which they express themselves. This makes this new philosophy tenable in terms of its approach in demystifying the issues affecting black women.
Post-colonial feminism is a branch of feminism that emerged as a response to the wider feminist theory that primarily focuses on the experiences of women in the Western cultures and their former colonies. Ideally, post-colonial feminism looks at the ways in which racism and the socioeconomic and political impact of colonialism on non-white, non-Western women, peculiarly from the developing world in the post-colonial era. This new form of feminism developed in the 1980s as a critique to the established feminism theories from the developed world. The proponents of post-colonial feminism argue that women in non-Western countries are largely underrepresented and misrepresented in the dominant feminism theories. For instance, post-colonial feminists argue that by using the term woman in its broad sense does not capture the unique experiences of different women that have been shaped by other factors such as social class, ethnicity, race, or sexual preferences. These post-colonialist feminist seek to incorporate the ideas and experiences of women from the third world and indigenous women into the wider mainstream discussion of feminism.
Black and post-colonial feminism is anchored on the fat that there is need to look at the challenges and experiences that women in nonwestern countries face in the post-colonial era. The challenges and experiences, despite being unique and significant to the struggle of women in the developing world, are conspicuously left out of the broader debate on feminism and excluded from mainstream feminist theories. Therefore, post-colonial feminism was developed as a critique to the Western understanding of feminism. Post-colonial feminists do not agree that women should be looked at as a universal group with similar experiences and challenges in the sense of a global sisterhood that brings together women from all over the world. The primary objective of postcolonial feminists is to reject and criticize the traditional understanding of feminism by promoting the understanding that women have different simultaneous experiences and challenges that are all intertwined in a singular battle for emancipation. The post-colonial feminists hope that the broader feminist movement will incorporate their ideas and theories to enrich the feminist discourse and expan...