Anything feminist by definition includes a call for ameliorative change. An example is this artist' s book, the Red Shoe Reader , by Gaza Bowen. Postcoloniality Postcoloniality is another such critical stance that demands change. Postcolonial criticism bears witness to the unequal and uneven forces of cultural representation involved in the contest for political and social authority within the modern world order. The graphic representation of the campaign against Nike shoes' exploitative global labour practices puts shoes into their postcolonial perspective.
Art can relate truth that reveals the coercive discourses operating within and across cultures.
Encyclopedias tend to reflect the mainstream rather than taking an ethical stand in favour of alternative views. Yet encyclopedias are powerful tools for propagating various discourses and could well choose, as Diderot did, to represent social responsibility instead of an ostensibly neutral status quo. The pedagogical intent of encyclopedias is the product of cultural discourses, but it does not have to support the discourses of the mainstream. What we perceive as neutrality or objectivity is actually an endorsement of the status quo. Feminist poststructuralism and postcoloniality provide the agency that the culture of postmodernism and the critical stance of poststructuralism lack by themselves.