Cosmopolitizando al enfoque de género
Texts Like Mary Daly´s Gyn/Ecology and Kathleen Barry´s Female Sexual Slavery recite patriarchal atrocities from wife-burning in India, genital mutilation in Africa, foot-binding in China, to pornography in the United States. These are offered on the assumption that each is an example of the same underlying structure. In such teories the world-wide dimension of gender becomes a universal common strcture of patriarchy.
The conviction that every country and every period shows the same structure has led Western feminists arguing on these lines into classically ethnocentric positions. As critics like Kalpana Ram have pointed out, an account of suttee* based on racist Western sources that present Indian women as passively suffering atrocity, and which takes no account of their resistances, mobilization, or purposes, does justice neither to the issue nor to Indian women.
The conviction that every country and every period shows the same structure has led Western feminists arguing on these lines into classically ethnocentric positions. As critics like Kalpana Ram have pointed out, an account of suttee* based on racist Western sources that present Indian women as passively suffering atrocity, and which takes no account of their resistances, mobilization, or purposes, does justice neither to the issue nor to Indian women.
- R.W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics, 1987.
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