Both Mohanty and Nagar’s articles touch on the nuances of the category “woman”. In Mohanty’s piece, the universalization of woman was used as a means to push liberal, western feminism onto women in the global south. Non-western women were then inherently in need of saving via a transformation of their culture into western culture. This universalization ignores the nuances of different women across the globe, erasing the unique struggles that each woman in their time period experiences. Nagar’s piece highlights the different instances where politics, economics, and social structures that influence different ideas of purity and honor affected the ways in which migration patterns were formed. Thus, the same connection to nuance can be made in the examples that Nagar gives in that given the circumstances of the time different migration patterns emerged and a universal conceptual view of women in India and Tanzania negates women’s unique history.

In the film Fire, there is also the absence of a different kind of woman beside the normative role. Thus, when Sita and Radha spark up a relationship they do not even have a name for it. There is also lots of mention of purity from traditional stories in the film.