Gender oppression is naturalized, masking its colonial material origins

Evidence

This point resonates with Obioma Nnaemeka’s theory of internally induced patriarchal structures where she argues that the manner in which African women struggled with issues of gender oppression in the pre-colonial era was replicated during post-colonialism. Her postulation centres on the fluidity of gender relations and gender oppression across the boundaries of time and space as “ever evolving, always contaminated and contested, mutually creating and recreating each other”. This position insinuates that gender oppression is natural, taking it away from the material conditions that in reality produce, catalyse and reproduce gender relations and gender oppression. For example, the historical realities of patriarchal hierarchies of power, which were catalysed by the violent process of colonialism and the designed strategy of colonial capital appropriation that thrived on a divide-and-rule scheme. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Nnaemeka’s theory of ‘internally induced patriarchal structures’ as a distinct framework.
• XREF: The critique that fluidity-talk naturalizes oppression resembles Marxist materialist critiques of poststructuralist gender theory considered elsewhere. — connects to: Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism.; Sexism and racism jointly founded the American social order from colonization; Colonial nonintervention in women’s customs mirrored the metropole’s denial of women’s rights (+8 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 969

Broader Connections

• Sexism and racism jointly founded the American social order from colonization #corroborates (0.45)
• Colonial nonintervention in women’s customs mirrored the metropole’s denial of women’s rights #complicates (0.35)
• Winning over women gave colonial power over men and destructured culture #qualifies (0.30) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 135