Trading French and Postcolonial Feminisms

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, in articulating feminist and postcolonial politics, raises issues of importance for both first world and third world feminists as well as enacting some of the very dangers which accompany those tenuous relationships. Spivak\u27s essays, French Feminism in an International Frame (1981) and French Feminism Revisited: Ethics and Politics (1992), provide a rich arena in which she presents powerful cautions regarding international solidarities and explores the complicated dynamics of ethical relationships on multiple levels, including that between mother and daughter, bourgeois postcolonial feminist and the woman of the ground, as well as between metropolitan and postcolonial feminists