The Internally Globalized Body as Instigator: Crossing Borders, Crossing Races
Abstract
How will we as feminists theorize these borders? How will we as beings
whose very bodies are objects of globalization theorize a border which we
dwell within? Ofelia Shutte asks whether it is “possible for Western
feminism to disentangle itself from the historical forces of Western
colonialism and from the erasure of otherness that such forces entail?
(Shutte 2000, 59) I ask whether it is possible for feminism, Western or
non-Western, Northern or Southern, to utilize the theoretical and political
resource that others, who are “othered” on both sides of the border, offer
to feminist struggle.