Against Purity : Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminism.
Irene. Gedalof
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Routledge, , 1999.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (255 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Women and community identities in Indian feminisms; 2 Agency, the self and the collective in Indian feminisms; 3 Luce/loose connections; 4 Female trouble; 5 'All that counts is the going'; 6 Donna Haraway's promising monsters; 7 Power, identity and impure spaces; 8 Theorising 'women' in a postcolonial mode; Conclusion; Notes;. - Confronting the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues of gender with other forms of difference, such as race, ethnicity and nation, this study argues that feminist thought can begin to work "against purity" in order to develop more complex models of power, identity and the self.
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| ISBN | 0415215862. - 0415215870
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