However, Arebi argues these writers do not necessarily conform to Western feminists' ideas of resistance or their definitions of patriarchy.

Western feminists' growing interest in differences between women is strengthening their awareness of the need for a more complex view of socialization.

Western feminists are often interested in humanist psychological theories.

Ms. Chesler said that such criticism often grows from a perception that policy changes involving women are the work of Western feminists.

Both have struggled for recognition, not only from men in their own culture, but also from Western feminists.

The Third World feminist movement criticizes the failure of Western feminists to recognize that not all women live in their particular political environment and location.

Western feminists had, Rosaldo said, viewed women elsewhere as "ourselves undressed and the historical specificity of their lives and of our own becomes obscured".

Fatimeh gasps, as outraged and uncomprehending as any Western feminist.

I don't think they need Western feminists patronising them.

They portrayed the conference agenda as the work of Western feminists.