Feminist Aliens, Memoirs from the Margins. A Caribbean “Feminist’s” Experience in Western Feminism
Feminist Aliens, Memoirs from the Margins. A Caribbean “Feminist’s” Experience in Western Feminism

Summary/Abstract: Feminist scholars from the developing world have long written about the fracture between Western and developing world feminisms, where women from the developing world are often depicted as one monolithic group of oppressed “third world” women by feminists from the West. I posit in this article that there is power in this depiction, which implicitly categorizes women from the developing world as “other” and this power allows Western feminisms to determine whose scholarship is relevant to the development of feminist epistemology. I also make the point that for feminist scholarship to grow there needs to be an acknowledgement that feminists from everywhere possess knowledge and experience which should be viewed as valuable contributions to feminism. I ask the question, can there be a shift in the way feminist knowledge is produced, one that can transcend the current boundaries and bring about solidarity in practice within feminism?

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