• "Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition." Critical Inquiry 18 (Summer 1992): 756-769.
• Third World Woman
  "There are no women in the third world." -1. In law, women can not bear testimony.
  

"Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition." Critical Inquiry 18 (Summer 1992): 756-769.

I.  There is a trend of "anti-intellectualism" in the debate of multiculturalism in the U.S. academia
II. the article's focus: feminism and postcolonialism, or "postcolonial woman"

p. 758-59 "The coupling of postcolonial with woman...almost inevitably leads to the simplicities that underlie unthinking celebration of oppression, elevating the racially female voice into a metaphor for "the good." Metaphoricity; the status of the other

III.  feminism's lived experience--realism made objective truth on theoretic level--too limited and subjective: 

p. 762 To privilege the racial body in the absence of historical context is indeed to generate an idiom that tends to waver with impressionistic haste between abstractions of postcoloniality and the anecdotal literalism. ... Realism...is too dangerous a term for an idiom that seeks to raise identity to the power of theory."

Spivak  "if one looks at the history of post-Enlightenment theory, the major problem has been the problem of autobiography: how subjective structure can, in fact, give objective truth." -the person who knows

e. g. Trinh Min-ha (p. 761 "Grandma's story") and bell hooks (p. 764; 765 opposes Third-World Women to Black women)

IV. "realism" in postcolonial condition--e.g. The Hudood Ordinances in Pakistan (pp. 766- )
Hadd (limit) and Tazir (punish)

Zina (adultery) rape defined as "one where a man or a woman have illicit sex knowing that they are not validly married to each other."pp. 767-68

p. 768 "I cite these alternative realisms and constructions of identity in order to reiterate the problem endemic to postcolonial feminist criticism. It is not the terrors of Islam that have unleashed the Hudood Ordinances on Pakistan, but more probably the U.S. government's economic and ideological support of a military regime during that bloody but eminently forgotten decade marked by the "liberation" of Afghanistan.

Conclusion: Hadd'the limit'is precisely the realism against which our lived experience can serve as a metaphor, and against which we must continue to write.

(external) Literary Criticism Databank: Postcolonialism