American Journal of Islam and Society (Oct 2005)

The Orientalization of Gender

  • Md. Mahmudul Hasan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v22i4.460
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 4

Abstract

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Said’s critique of Orientalism provokes a comprehensive review by post-colonial theorists of the bulk of western knowledge regarding non-western countries. This Orientalist literature buttresses the colonial notion of a civilizing mission, which is also supported by many western feminists who provide theoretical grounds to such colonialist perceptions. Such post-colonial feminists as Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, and Rajeswari Rajan analyze western feminism’s ideological complicity with Orientalist and imperialist ventures.