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Western Feminism: The Lovechild of Gender and Orientalism

Radtke, Sofia Bianca
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This thesis confronts the lack of universality in mainstream feminism given its dedication to gender and as its unit of analysis. This Western social, arguably cultural, construct has been enforced onto non-western cultures as a form of epistemic colonialism. As a result, I endorse the establishment of alternative feminist movements and examine the African rebuttal to feminism, Africana Womanism. I use philosophical, sociological, psychological, and historical approaches to investigate the aspects of gender and the “west” to see the interplay of these two constructs in the form of feminism. I assert that the fluid, dominant identities formed in the name of gender and the west (men and western society) are dependent on otherization to define themselves to form institutions of power, echoing Edward Said’s postcolonial theory of Orientalism. My goal in the research is to encourage universal awareness of one’s social position to potentially make schools of thought like feminism more inclusive, if possible.
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Thesis (B.A. in Humanistic Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.
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2023
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Feminism, Womanism
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Radtke, Sofia Bianca. "Western Feminism: The Lovechild of Gender and Orientalism". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.
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