| Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms Contributor(s): Gedalof, Irene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415215870 ISBN-13: 9780415215879 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: This pioneering volume critiques the work of four eminent Western feminists--Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Luce Irigaray--in the light of original readings of a wide range of Indian feminist historians and theorists. Irene Gedalof's exploration of the relationship between Indian and white Western feminisms allows the development of more complex models of power, identity and the self--opening up a path which allows the redefinition of "women" as a subject of feminism. Sophisticated yet accessible, "Against Purity" is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 99030084 |
| Series: Gender, Racism, Ethnicity |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.48" W x 8.55" (0.68 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |