Native feminist theories and education in WGSS

• Structure
• Settler-colonialism is a gendered process
• Indigenous + Black feminist studies need to be a core part of WGSS
• Feminist modes must be centralized within the introductory courses themselves
• Settler colonial studies is often about the Americas
• DECOLONIZING THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION
• Pittman: wants to see WGSS incorporate the Nation State as a monopoly holder on rights and personhood
• Different forms of feminism may not all necessarily agree
• WHAT and HOW Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments exist in universities that are HARMFUL to indigenous

Mohanty

• Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
• Experiences in a primarily white U.S academy
• People think of her as a total pessimist, but NAH → she wants to develop transnational feminist movements

Major topics in "Under Western Eyes"

• The production of the "Third World woman" as a monolithic figure in Western feminist scholarship

• The place of feminist scholarship on the Third World in contemporary imperialism

• The deconstruction of Western humanist discourse and its binary logic

• A lot of people have misread her words