Sisterhood and "Doing Good": Asymmetries of Western Feminist Location, Access and Orbits of Concern

Sisterhood and "Doing Good": Asymmetries of Western Feminist Location, Access and Orbits of Concern

There are a variety of discourses and practices that position Western feminists (and Western political subjects more generally) as people who have a moral and political obligation to concern themselves with the welfare, suffering, or empowerment of non-Western subjects, often women, and intervene t...

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Main Author: Uma Narayan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Ontario 2019-07-01
Series:Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
Subjects:
adaptive preferences, capillary power, democracy, criteria for development aid, dictators, doing good, gender essentialism, human rights, imperialism, liberalism, Alison Jaggar, neoliberalism, NGOs, non-Western feminists, non-Western women, patriarchy, resource privilege, Saving Amina, Western feminism, Western women
Online Access:https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/7299

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