TY - JOUR
T1 - Calls for educating girls in the Third World
T2 - futurity, girls and the ‘Third World Woman’
AU - MacDonald, Katie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - In this article I examine three calls for Western support for girls' education in the ‘developing world’. Using transnational feminist theory and discourse analysis I look at three examples of these calls; Three Cups of Tea, ‘Because I Am a Girl’ and the United National Girls Education Initiative. I suggest that what Mohanty (1988) terms the ‘Third World Woman’ – a homogeneous, static image of women in the third world – is the spectre used to motivate Western support. Through representations of girls, Western viewers/readers are hailed to invest in order to save the girl-child from the haunting ‘Third World Woman’. The girl-child, through her particularity as a girl, her future womanhood as motherhood and her neoliberal potential, becomes presented as emblems of a better future with the investment of Westerners.
AB - In this article I examine three calls for Western support for girls' education in the ‘developing world’. Using transnational feminist theory and discourse analysis I look at three examples of these calls; Three Cups of Tea, ‘Because I Am a Girl’ and the United National Girls Education Initiative. I suggest that what Mohanty (1988) terms the ‘Third World Woman’ – a homogeneous, static image of women in the third world – is the spectre used to motivate Western support. Through representations of girls, Western viewers/readers are hailed to invest in order to save the girl-child from the haunting ‘Third World Woman’. The girl-child, through her particularity as a girl, her future womanhood as motherhood and her neoliberal potential, becomes presented as emblems of a better future with the investment of Westerners.
KW - Futurity
KW - Girls' education
KW - International development
KW - Representation
KW - Third World Woman
KW - Transnational feminism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84947020837&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2014.991699
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2014.991699
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:84947020837
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 23
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 1
ER -