Chandra Talpade Mohanty is a postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist. Postcolonial feminism is a form of feminism that examines the ways in which racism and the effects of colonialism affect non-white, non-Western women in the postcolonial world. Transnational feminism is a related perspective that is rooted more clearly in an activist agenda. Transnational feminism began as a critique of the international women’s movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Transnational feminist thinkers view any global or international approach to gender equality as suspect, arguing that these points of view are inherently rooted in Eurocentric, colonialist perspectives. Mohanty’s writings in this area have been extensive, and she is a key figure in the development of an explicitly anticolonial feminist perspective.