What is Feminism across the world
A complete guide to Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Postcolonial Feminism
What is feminism?
Feminism is a theory that believes in the equality of sexes especially women in economic, political, and social order. Various theorists wrote various things about this term and till now, feminism has divided into various branches. But in this article, you will find the impacts of colonialism and post colonialism on women as marginalized gender in colonized countries all over the world.
Feminism: a connection between Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Feminism is a fabulous field of study across the world. It is simplistic to believe that Western feminists can represent and justify the status of female gender living in once colonized societies. Since lives, experiences, and circumstances of postcolonial women differ utterly from that of Western women, so feminists of postcolonial origin should come forward and make differences visible and acceptable across cultures; otherwise get ready to take on colonized garbs of identity. Ifs lives, experiences, and circumstances of women in postcolonial settings are divergent, they should be judged, evaluated, and treated as such hence ‘postcolonial feminism’ consolidated. Postcolonial feminist brought the view of universal sisterhood under threat.
How Tsitsi Dangarembga explains fundamental issues of Post-Colonial Feminism?
The Postcolonial feminism is an exploration of colonialism and neocolonialism with gender distinction, race, class, nation, and women sexualities in the various contexts of women’s lives, their subjectivities, work, sexuality, and torture”. Tsitsi Dangarembga explains the fundamental issues of ‘postcolonial feminist’ endeavor: Postcolonial feminism has never operated as a spare entity from post-colonialism; but it has inspired the other forms and the force of postcolonial power politics.
Colonialism- Redefining the indigenous culture
In numberless colonialist texts, papers, articles, and documents, it is sought hard to project the negative pictures or images of orients which Westerners never use for themselves and as such, to inculcate inferiority and meanness in oriental minds. This is what Western scholars call ‘civilizing mission.' Moreover, indigenous culture, language, tradition never found attention and respect in the eyes of the West. Of course, it was aimed to prepare defective robots. However, it was overvaluing dream of the West. In colonial hands, language throughout played very crucial roles, and purposefully wreaked havoc on Orientals. In this way, Orientals during colonial rule were victims of cruelty, brutality, and so-called ‘civilizing mission’ of the West.
Why Third world feminism encounters all the problems?
Post colonialism throughout seeks to counter every type of oppression, injustice and traces left by the West. Next, postcolonial feminism sometimes also referred to as ‘third world feminism’ born out of the critique aimed towards Western feminism which is mainly a white discourse. Indeed, the history of Western feminism is predominantly covered by West European and North American women experiences.
Women of Color Feminists have created clear what's disclosed regarding extreme violent exploitation and domination once the epistemological aspects focus on the intersection of these classes. But that has not appeared satisfactory to arouse in those men who have been the targets of the passive domination and exploitation, any recognition of their guiltiness or collaboration with the coercive power of women of color. Specifically, theorizing world domination continues to proceed as if no betrayals or collaborations of this type need to be acknowledged and resisted.
Social disorder is because of western colonial exposure! How?
How social disorder has penetrated into colonized women due to Western Colonial exposure? I pursue this investigation by inserting together one framework of research that I have not seen sufficiently and collectively explored. I’m referring, on the one hand, to the vital work on gender, race and colonization did, not completely, however significantly by Third World and women of Color feminists, together with influential race theorists. This work has emphasized the idea of intersectionality and has exposed the historical and the theoretic-practical exclusion of non-white women from strains of struggles within the name of “Women.”
Author:Khizar Hayat
The Author of this article is a M.Phil in English Literature