الفهرس 
The Objectives of Mohanty’s Decolonizing FeminismOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The position of most third-world women was complicated increasingly in the twentieth century because of the colonization wave which dominated
most third-world countries. Western feminists made serious attempts to help
those women from Western perspectives but in vain. Western feminists did not
realize that this complicated situation was the production of both patriarchy
and colonization. Thus, the purpose of this study is to present postcolonial
feminism as a feasible approach for the study of the position of third-world
women. This thesis applies postcolonial feminism to examine Lynn Nottage’s
Ruined (2007) and Betty Shamieh’s The Black Eyed (2005). It tries to fill the
gap between Western and postcolonial feminist claims related to the position of third-world women. In this way, it attempts to reach a better understanding of the suffering of those women in the light of colonization and patriarchy .
Keywords: Lynn Nottage, Ruined, Betty Shamieh, The Black Eyed, Third
World Women, Western Feminism, Postcolonial Feminism, Colonization, and
Patriarchy.