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LISTEN: Colonialism and Gender Today

Mar 29, 2018 Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

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March 27, 2018

Against the Grain

 

 

Can we understand gender relations in today’s neoliberal world without understanding colonialism? As Raka Ray points out, colonialism put in place new understandings about gender and gender relations, many of which continue to affect how people in countries like India think and interact and are governed. Colonialism and its legacies have also influenced how feminists in the Global South and their counterparts in the Global North view and treat each other.

 

 

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