Author: Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 300
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186706712
Description
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mahanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and activism for nearly two decades.
This collection highlights the concerns running throughout her pioneering work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders, and the relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and social movements.
Mohanty offers here a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice towards anticapitalist struggles. Her probing and provocative analyses of key concepts in feminist thought-home, sisterhood, community-lead the way toward a feminism without borders, a feminism fully engaged with the realities of a transnational world.
REVIEWS
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 the anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women’s studies today.
- ANGELA Y. DAVIS
Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the 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
Co-editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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 n what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of exploitation of women within neo-colonial 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
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and Feminist Commitments
PART ONE : DECOLONIZING FEMINISM
1. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
2. Cartographies of Struggle : Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
3. What’s Home Got to Do with It? (with Biddy Martin)
4. Sisterhood, Coalition, and the Politics of Experience
5. Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation
PART TWO : DEMYSTIFYING CAPITALISM
6. Women Workers and the Politics of Solidarity
7. Privatized Citizenship, Corporate Academies, and Feminist Projects
8. Race, Multiculturalism, and Pedagogies of Dissent
PART THREE : REORIENTING FEMINISM
9. Under Western Eyes Revisited : Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles
Notes
Bibliography
Index