Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and PracticeMarianne DeKoven 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 |
Contents
GENDER AND THE NATION | 7 |
GENDER CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES | 13 |
ANGLOPHONE | 37 |
THEORY FUTURITY FEMINISM 60 | 60 |
RECON FIGURING SPACE TIME AND MATTER 75 115 | 75 |
WHOS TO NAVIGATE AND WHOS TO STEER? A CONSIDERATION | 110 |
Postnational Politics | 129 |
IN INDIA | 147 |
THE MANY FACES OF ACTIVISM | 191 |
FEMINISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE HINDU GODDESS | 212 |
Body Politics | 229 |
STUFF | 257 |
FRAMING THE MATERNAL BODY | 282 |
TRAUMA AGING AND MELODRAMA | 304 |
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS | 329 |
FEMINIST ACTIVISM | 168 |
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