• Mohanty~ “Under Western Eyes” •Transnational feminism is not a monolithic understanding, but an umbrella term – whose theories, issues and concerns revolve around the inclusion of topics such as women's health activism. , reproductive rights, race, correlation between power and poverty, gender equality, etc. Society tends to lean towards hegemony and imperialism, which endangers feminism. It could be argued that, from a transnational perspective, feminism aims to end the oppressions of us all, that it is an avant-garde revolution and the fourth wave of feminism that fights for true equality . Sometimes the word feminism has been conditioned to an assumption of Western feminism, but transnational feminism facilitates a new ideology of intersectionality, which transcends the different boundaries of our lives. In the excerpt from Mohanty's "Under Western Eyes" and Woyingi's review of Angela Davis's "Women in Egypt", we can better understand the de-conceptualization of "Third World Women's Issues", or in the non -West and how we should challenge negative representations and lack of perspective through a transnational lens. In “Under Western Eyes,” Chandra Talpade Mohanty provides a framework or context within which to examine some of the complexities related to the limitations of identity-based knowledge from a feminist perspective. This quote explains this idea well: “By contrasting the representation of women in the Third World with the self-presentation of Western feminisms in the same context, we see how Western feminisms alone become the true “subjects” of this counter- history. In contrast, Third World women never rise above the debilitating generality of their “object” status. ...The application of the notion of woman as a homogeneous category...... middle of article...... Through Woyingi and Davis's understanding of gender in an Egyptian setting. The topic of gender oppression is often left undiscussed due to the idea that these narratives will be understood in applicable ways outside of negative connotations, which has increased the difficulty of addressing this issue in transnational feminist discourse because it will be obscured by hegemonic understandings rooted in feminism and leaves no room for deconstruction in trying to be intersectional. The Woyingi blog. September 10, 2010. The web. .Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist-Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Feminism without borders: theory of decolonization, practice of solidarity. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. 18-42. Print.