Essentially, the book calls out Western scholars, including Western feminists, although not all of them, for lumping women of the developing world into generic wholes based on a few examples (in other words, committing an inductive fallacy). I certainly got out of the book as much as I put into it, which is a mark of Mohanty’s excellent writing and scholarship. Fun but exhausting is how I’d characterise the book as a whole, and while I highly recommend it to the interested reader, a casual one will likely end up abandoning it (unfortunately, the most challenging chapters are in the front). However, my background is in international relations, not feminist studies, so a couple of the chapters certainly flexed my brain to its limits. What to write about Feminism Without Borders by Chandra Talpade Mohanty? I picked it up for A Year of Feminist Classics, and thus I read this with the relentless attention of my undergraduate years.
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