blog 2: Third World Women

After reading the article “Feminism Without Borders”, I came to a clearer understanding that feminists can not all be named under one category because a lot of women outside of the United States do not have opportunities to act upon it. Mohanty explains that the third world women and politics are imagined together, linking all of these women together by divergent histories and locations. I think she calls this “imagined” because that’s all we can do, imagine it. You cannot put all of these people under one category because some women in one country have different privileges than women in another country. For example, women in some countries do not have the right to give birth to as many children as they want, an issue known to be fertility. That is a huge privilege taken away from a woman. Also, their divisions of class, religion, and history makes each of these women think of their problems internally, so they do not speak of their deprivations and do not show their feminism. A group of these women would be from the British Third World, where they struggle with racist immigration and naturalization laws. Mohanty also states that these Women of Color have not had the opportunity to publicize their feminism because they are not in the proper economic conditions to do so with some of these issues being welfare and sterilization programs. The end of the articles says how Third World Women have demanded that history be rewritten so that they are integrated and learned about in education. I totally agree with this because I think there is a lot that women of the United States, and other privileged women, can learn from them.