This week, Eva and Emma get into an introduction to Postcolonial Feminism. They discuss the origins of postcolonial theory, examine how Western feminists frame so-called "third world" women and highlight the ways in which feminist rhetoric gets weaponized to perpetuate colonialism. 

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Reading List:

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Routledge’s The post-colonial studies reader

Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes” 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak”

Sara Ahmed, excerpt from Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

Lila Abu‐Lughod, "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?"

Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle 

Rich, Janine, “"Saving" Muslim Women: Feminism, U.S Policy and the War on Terror”

image: Leyly Matine-Daftary, PORTRAIT OF FARIDEH GOUHARI