What is Decolonialized Feminism?

Feminisms for the women of the global majority

Chandra Talpane Mohanty

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Witches and Bride Burnings

I’d felt a lifetime of guilt for the old Hindu practice of sati, bride-burning. A practice already illegal before my grandparent’s birth. It would more accurately be widow-burning, as she was burned on the pyre of her recently-dead husband. Rooted in misogyny, the idea descended from ideas of property, inheritance, and taking care of a woman who no longer held economic value to her deceased husband’s family.

I felt that lifetime of guilt start to lift when I read about the scholarship Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism, and learned that the practice was rare. It used by the British…