Chandra Mohanty argues in her essay “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” that many Western feminists write about women in the Third World as if they were a homogeneous group mass. In her essay she argues that Western feminists need to see diversity among women in the Third World. While she sometimes falls into the same trap of generalization that she accuses Western women of, she ultimately demonstrates that the feminist belief that Third World societies oppress all women elevates the Western worldview again to the superior one and is akin to the colonialism of previous times. Mohanty writes that feminists in the United States and Western Europe behave similarly towards women in the Third World. She states: “The definition of colonization… is… focused on certain modes of appropriation and codification of ‘scholarship’ and ‘knowledge’ about women in the Third World… as they have been articulated in the United States and in Western Europe" (Mohanty 694). . Invoking the word colonization connects everyone in the United States and Western Europe with the historic and still prevalent belief that Eurocentrism is the predominantly superior culture. He claims that colonization is still of interest to the West. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of colonization is: “The action of colonizing or being colonized; establishment of one or more colonies”; or “Establish (a country) with settlers; plant or establish a colony in” (“colonization”). Feminism pursues the “defense of gender equality and the affirmation of the political, social and economic rights of the female sex” (“feminism”). Mohanty's claim that Western feminists seek to establish their perception of knowledge about women in the Third World... in the middle of the paper... has been repeated many times in history before. Works Cited"ahistorical, adj." OED online. Oxford University Press, March 2014. Web. 13 March 2014. Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and state ideological apparatus (notes for an investigation)". Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. Parker, Robert Dale. New York: Oxford UP, 2012.450-461. Print."colonization, n." OED online. Oxford University Press, March 2014. Web. 13 March 2014."feminism, n." OED online. Oxford University Press, March 2014. Web. 13 March 2014. Martin, Douglas. nd, n. page .Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. Parker, Robert Dale. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. 694-715. Press.