Post-Colonial Feminism: Giving Voice to Third World Women

Abstract

This article provides a discussion of the most important theories of postcolonial feminism. This examination will focus mainly on two prominent postcolonial feminist who shed light on the case of women in the thirst world, namely, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak with her article "Can the Subaltern Speak?” and Chandra Talpade Mohanty with her article "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”. Then, I will proceed to the discussion of Benita Parry's essay "Problems in current theories of colonial discourse”, where she studies Spivak's theory of post-colonial feminism and Bhabha's theory of post-colonialism.