Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity - Softcover

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822330210 ISBN 13: 9780822330219

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2003

Synopsis

Feminism without Borders Addresses some of the pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. This book meditates on the lives of women workers at different ends of the global assembly line; feminist writing on experience, identity, and community; dominant conceptions of multiculturalism and citizenship; and, the corporatisation of the North American academy. Full description

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“Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a transnational feminist practice today. She provides resources for feminist engagements with difference, identity politics, the commodification of knowledge, and globalization and its effects. Shifts in the global political and economic landscape as well as Mohanty's own shifting location enable her to identify exhilarating new directions for feminist theory and practice.”—Sandra Harding, coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society


“Over the last two decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has produced an extraordinary body of writings on transnational feminism, radically changing the way we think about such categories as ‘third world women,’ ‘women of color’ and ‘globalization.’ This volume combines her now classic essays with new writings that accentuate the centrality of anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women's studies today.”—Angela Y. Davis

"Chandra Talpade Mohanty is unequivocally one of the most important feminist theorists and scholars writing and publishing today. In this collection, her essays take on new meaning to play important parts in what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of the exploitation of women within neocolonial capitalism and an elaboration of antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist solidarity practices."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics

”The juxtaposition of these essays brings into sharp focus the theoretical framework Chandra Talpade Mohanty has developed and makes visible the enormity, the force, and the uniqueness of her contribution.”—Ruth Frankenberg, editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

From the Author

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women's Studies at Hamilton College and Core Faculty at the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati. She is coeditor of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures and Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0822330210
• ISBN 13: 9780822330219
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 312