Original Text:
The article is a reaction to criticism and feedback, as well as misunderstandings regarding Mohanty's introductory post, "Behind Western Eyes." The Women Studies program has been thoroughly discussed in this paper. Furthermore, the article touches on the political knowledge of globalization and “deglobalization.” Mohanty has defined three separate models to assist in interpreting these variables.
The "Feminist as a Visitor Model"
The first is the “Feminist as a Visitor Model,” and is illustrated on page 455 of the article. Mohanty dismisses this model as a Eurocentric kind of thinking which casts the Third World Women as victims of certain foreign oppression, and she gives examples of the Indian dowry deaths. In a nutshell, the model can be viewed as add and mix types.
The "Feminist as an Explorer" Model
Another model is the “Feminist as an explorer” on page 456 where Mohanty presents that both global and local are Euro-American. She further notes that the problems which are affecting women today are historically located abroad.
The "Comparative feminist studies model"
Lastly, she discusses the “Comparative feminist studies model” as in page 458.
In a close view, the author of this essay seems to be a feminist and tries to explain to the world through writing that indeed women’s problems are caused by “something” which is controllable but only if there is a collaboration between all.
Vora, K. (2015). Life support: Biocapital and the new history of outsourced labor. University of Minnesota Press.
In the Vora’s monograph, materials and components of life have been differentiated into global capitalism. Vora applies several questions raised in the studies conducted in the post-colonization, racial studies, as well as feminist materialists and scientists. She also puts side by side the figures and facts of the outsourced labor in India through methods such as ethnographic accounts, IT workers, literature, and gestational surrogates and continues to argue that the current relations staged by the global capital needs a well-sustained attention to various aspects such as subjectivities, imaginaries, and technologies which shape the anticipated capacities and extractability of various parts of humans and lives in service for others.
Vora’s work is that which tries to link the past and the contemporary world. The article reviews the several and different ways in which capitalists were viewed before, during, and after colonialism in India with regards to feminist capitalists as the main subjects. Vora is, therefore, one of the feminists who have worked hard through writing to enlighten the world about the space of women in the economy or as a special aspect of capitalism that should not be overlooked.
Glenn, E. N. (1985). Racial ethnic women's labor: The intersection of race, gender and class oppression. Review of Radical Political Economics, 17(3), 86-108.
In this article, Glenn is trying to bring to light how labor system as well as other oppressions emanating from racism during colonial period shaped both reproductively and productively, the labor of racial ethnic women. This made their experiences to be very different from those that were undergone by women feminists conducting analyses about women’s oppression. The basis of the article therefore is historical examination of evidences of work done by women from the C19th to the contemporary world by the Black, Chinese-American, and Mexican-American females. All these have been discussed using Marxist-feminist and colonial labor theories.
The author of the article is also another feminist just as the previously discussed, who was concerned about the labour women offered the colonial rulers and the oppressions they went through under those regimes. In other words, the author tries to assert that during the colonial period, it is women who suffered more particular those who came from the other races who were viewed weaker such as the Blacks, Mexican-American, and the Chinese-American women.
References
Mohanty, C. T. (2003). “Under western eyes” revisited: feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles. Signs: Journal of Women in culture and Society, 28(2), 499-535.
Vora, K. (2015). Life support: Biocapital and the new history of outsourced labor. University of Minnesota Press.
Glenn, E. N. (1985). Racial ethnic women’s labor: The intersection of race, gender and class oppression. Review of Radical Political Economics, 17(3), 86-108.
