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Without naming it as such, Oyěwùmí theorises a kind of 'Western feminist gaze' that finds 'women's issues' everywhere it deigns to look, which has the unfortunate side-effect of presuming and entrenching the stability of who counts as fulfilling the role of 'women', without, in fact, asking the women - or men - in question. Jarring to a certain feminist sensibility which I've also imbibed!
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Jun 24, 2025 07:00AM
Interesting—I wonder if that could have to do with the economics of production in "Western" societies where, depending on one's job, there may be incentives for "having something to say"—an industry of cultural criticism. What comes to mind are incentives to write articles (whether scholarly or BuzzFeed) that chew over yet another "women's issue."
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Ha, that probably plays a role - along with the general effort to (over?)compensate for the privileging of men in Western historiography for so long - but that *this* is an issue that is rolled out (rather than others) still requires additional explanation, which probably lies in wider sociological conditions of the West.
