"Three worlds theory flattens heterogeneities, masks contradictions, and elides differences. Third World feminist critics such as Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Vina Mazumdar (India), Kumari Jayawardena (Sri Lanka), Fatima Mernissi (Morocco), and Leila Gonzales (Brazil) have explored these differences and similarities in a feminist light, pointing to the gendered limitations of Third World nationalism."
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Ella Shohat, “The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation, and Diaspora” Published in Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema edited by Hamid Dabashi (2006). Also collected in On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat (2017)
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