Women’s Freedom Practices in World Perspective

Is the concept of freedom practices Western-centric in character? Or does it involve a culturally plural notion that is present throughout cultures, and that, as such, allows for a critical reformulation of feminism in world perspective? ‘Feminism’ is often criticized for being inherently white and Western – a critique that largely corresponds with mainstream feminism’s claims that women in the West are the liberated, autonomous subjects that women from ‘other cultures’ are yet to become. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1991) and Lila Abu-Lughod (1986, 2002) famously criticized Western feminists for a priori victimizing non-Western women, instead of approaching them as agents. Sawitri