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Kwok Pui-Lan Unbinding Our Feet Analysis

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Upon reading Kwok Pui-Lan 's, "Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse", my vocabulary and understanding of feminist-religious phrases indefinitely extended and increased. The most stimulating and thought provoking terms from this work (in the order introduced) are: colonialist feminism, female subaltern, veneration, phallocentric, and eschatological. This text essentially discovers, "...How saving brown women functions as a colonial ideology helping to camouflage the violence and brutality of colonialism by sugar coating it as a for of social mission." Early in the text it gives the background on how the European male sought (pretended) to "shelter" and "defend" brown women from brown men. However, the most intriguing factor of this piece comprehends and explores women 's, and particularly feminist 's role in bolstering colonialist efforts and unconsciously (or consciously) perpetuating feminist discourse through a patriarchal lens. This was interesting for three reasons which include the fact that an average person usually identifies and reserves colonialism as solely a man 's obligation. Another reason includes the the fact that the credibility of which feminism stands upon is automatically diminished when a scholar seeks to educate someone but …show more content…

As soon as I read, "under the pretext of saving brown women, colonial desire and imperialistic advances have been masked and collectively reconstituted in a blatant reversal as social mission," I was befuddled. In no way am I consciously trying to impose my conception of religion onto colonizers. However, granted that many colonizers were known for practicing Christianity, which usually entails virtuosity and possession of a moral compass, I did not understand what justified colonizer 's

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