December, 2000 Volume 3, Issue 3 Past Issues About dis/content Editorial Collective Contributors Contact Us Submissions Links Home   The Right Kind of Feminists?: Third-world Women and the Politics of Feminism [continued] Third-world Feminisms in the First-world Academy As I indicated at the beginning, the question of my current location in the US academy cannot unproblematically range beyond my engagements and my practices. Undoubtedly I am a third-world subject working in the rst-world academy. However, I do understand that I do not live in a “third-world bubble.” That is, by virtue of my immediate physical-material location within the US academy, I partly operate within the connements of the rst world. By the same token, I am a product of third-world histories and third-world struggles – national, feminist, and anti-colonial. It is from that paradoxical perspective that I write, talk, breathe, eat, and sleep. It is from that perspective that I participate in dis/content, a journal that embodies that very paradox, for it is “brought to life” through contacts and conicts between third-world and rst-world subjects, complex as they are. And it is from that perspective that I make sense of third-world feminisms and practice my own version of feminism. Previous section     Next Section     Table of Contents