 Postcolonial feminist approaches maintain that in order to interrogate the hegemony of the West, it is necessary to deconstruct the ways in which it is deployed to exclude the non-Western subject. Furthermore, such deployment is always a strategic one, insofar as the “West” is not a concrete geographical category, and the paradigm of Western subjectivity is continuously built by demarcating those who do not fit in it. Postcolonial feminisms are interdisciplinary and not limited to the field of philosophy, and they challenge the inscription of the gender, racial, and geographic categories that underlie the hegemony of the Western subject. In doing so, Continental feminist approaches engage with figures from poststructuralism and critical theory (such as Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and Adorno), and they deploy methods such as genealogy and deconstruction (Spivak 1988; Mohanty 1984), in order to question the underlying geographic and gendered assumptions of these methods. In “Can the Subaltern Speak?” for example, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak engages with French poststructuralism and questions the paradigms of speech/reason that deny the very possibility of capacities such as resistance for those that do not fit within the geographic, racialized, and gendered boundaries of Western Subjectivity (Spivak 1988). In doing so, she highlights the ways in which poststructuralism relies upon the very categories (of speech, reason, or universal subjectivity) that it ostensibly critiques.