7) Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles” Feminist Theory Reader. Eds. Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim New York: Routledge 2101. 446-462.

Mohanty discusses the Women Studies curriculum and the politics of knowledge in bringing the local and the global, and there are three models that do so. ‘Feminist as tourist model’ (455) which Mohanty dismisses as an addictive and Eurocentric casting the third world women as victims of exotic oppression such as dowry deaths in India, in other words it’s the add and stir model. In this case, students and teachers are able to comprehend a clear difference between the local and global. This strategy perpetuates notion of power inequality and hierarchies that are produced by Eurocentric thinkers. It also crafts the image of third world women as monolithic, while Euro-American women are considered vital, ever-changing, complex and central subjects.

Next is the ‘feminist as explorer model’ (456) takes an adequate separate by equal approach marked by cultural relativism. In this case the local and global are both defined as non Euro-American. This is where the non-western women are considered to be both sources of objective and subjective knowledge and the most popular project conducted. The problems concerning women are located spatially and historically situated abroad. This strategy lets the students and teachers leave with the notion of difference created by space and time.

Finally, the ‘feminist solidarity or comparative feminist studies model’ (458) is defined in terms of the relationship between the local and global anchoring the idea of feminist solidarity. This strategy applies to comparative focus and analysis of the directionality of power no matter what the subject of the Women Studies source and focuses on the individual and collective experience of oppression and exploitation and of struggle and resistance.