Feminist Locations
Global and Local, Theory and Practice
Contemporary feminist scholarship has done much to challenge the many binary constructions at the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, theory/practice, and, most notably, masculine/feminine. Feminist criticism has reshaped these conceptions by breaking them apart and reconfiguring them into intersecting, relational fields of difference. The contributors to this collection look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity.
In the first part of this book, current feminist theory is assessed for possible future directions. Part two focuses primarily on political issues and part three on questions of the body. Topics include feminist success versus social backlash, global womens human rights, postcolonial feminism, the politics of reproduction, and narratives of womens aging in postmodern culture.
Contributors: Karen Barad, Anne C. Bellows, Charlotte Bunch, Nao Bustamante, Elaine K. Chang, Marianne DeKoven, Leela Fernandes, Susan Stanford Friedman, Coco Fusco, Radha S. Hegde, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, E. Ann Kaplan, Debra J. Liebowitz, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Cynthia Saltzman, Lynne Segal
Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global modernity.
Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global modernity.
Only contradictions on offer: anglophone feminism at the millennium / Lynne Segal
Last past the post: theory, futurity, feminism / Elaine K. Chang
Re(con)figuring space, time, and matter / Karen Barad
Who's to navigate and who's to steer? A consideration of the role of theory in feminist struggle / Cheryl Johnson-Odim
Women's human rights: the challenges of global feminism and diversity / Charlotte Bunch
Rethinking globalization: gender and the nation in India / Leela Fernandes
Constructing cooperation: feminist activism and NAFTA / Debra J. Liebowitz
The many faces of activism / Cynthia Saltzman
Feminism and the politics of the Hindu goddess / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
The praxis of food work in Poland / Anne C. Bellows
Stuff / Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante
Sons and m(others): framing the maternal body and the politics of reproduction in a south Indian context / Radha S. Hegde
Trauma, aging, and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan
