Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
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...Cultural factors play a key role in preventing women from owning and using mobile phones in developing countries (Hofstede, 2014; Huyer and Sikoska, 2003; Mohanty, 2003; Recabarren et al., 2008; Zainudeen et al., 2010)....
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...The degree of gender differentiation in a country is highly dependent on its culture (Hofstede, 2014; Huyer and Sikoska, 2003; Mohanty, 2003; Recabarren et al., 2008; Zainudeen et al., 2010)....
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...But this assumption cannot bemade in the global South, where cultural discontinuity and disruption is the condition of life....
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...Gender theory, it is clear, must evolve to include paradigms emerging from the global South (Bulbeck, 1998; Mohanty, 2003), and must address problems articulated by social movements in the South (Naples & Desai, 2002)....
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...Morrell’s (2007) researchwith youth in Blackworking-class schools in South Africa shows some masculinities oriented to dominance and violence, and some oriented to more equal personal relationships....
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...We need a better conceptual language, and one is now emerging, especially from scholars in the global South....
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...In an important paper, Meekosha (in press) calls for a rethinking of disability studies in the light of global inequalities and Southern theory....
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...It also draws from postcolonial theories in attending to how knowledge and cultures from other peoples in the world have become si lenced historically by claims to knowledge from Western institutions (e.g., Kaplan, Alarcon, & Moallem, 1999; Mohanty, 2003)....
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