Mohanty

• Third world woman is not monolithic

• Separate gender from her context….only of importance because she fits into one category…categorized in shared oppression

• Woman’s place is not in things she does, but in meanings ascribed to what she does

• Reductive cross-cultural comparisons = colonizations of the specifics of daily existence = women in the 3rd world have “needs” and “problems” but no “choices

• Category of womanhood = ahistorical unity

• Can say that there are tons of women wearing the veil, but the meaning ascribed to it is different across different contexts

• Sexual division = meaning ascribed to it is an assumed gender imbalance

• Third world Women as just one group of people are looked at as subjects without social relations

• Ethnocentric universality