Against Purity : Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415215870
ISBN-13
9780415215879
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 1999
Print length
260 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesFeminism and feminist theoryCultural studiesFeminism & feminist theory
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Theoretically-grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference, focused around the relationship of Western feminism to feminism in India.
Against Purity confronts the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues of gender with other forms of difference, such as race, ethnicity and nation. This pioneering study places recent feminist theory from India in critical conversation with the work of key Western thinkers such as Butler, haraway and Irigaray and argues that, through such postcolonial encounters, contemporary feminist thought can begin to work ''against purity'' in order to develop more complex models of power, identity and the self, ultimately to redefine ''women'' as the subject of feminism.
Theoretically grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference.
Theoretically grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference.
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