Rarrghh! No wonder these five pages have taken me four sittings!

[honeymagnolia]

"However, in the context of the hegemony of the Western scholarly establishment in the production and dissemination of texts, and in the context of the legitimating imperative of humanistic and scientific discourse, the definition of 'the third world woman' as a monolith might well tie into the larger economic and ideologic praxis of 'disinterested' scientific inquiry and pluralism which are the surface manifestations of a latent economic and cultural colonization of the 'non-Western' world."

I've read and typed this excerpt so many times now that I actually know what it means. Yuck.