
Against Purity
Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms
Irene Gedalof(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-0-415-21587-9 (ISBN)
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-21587-9 (9780415215879)
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Person
Irene Gedalof is Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of North London, and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick.
Content
Introduction PART I Indian complications 1 Women and community identities in Indian Feminisms 2 Agency, the self and the collective in Indian Feminisms PART II White Western feminisms and identity 3 Luce/loose connections: Luce Irigaray, sexual difference, race and nation 4 Female trouble: Judith Butler and the destabilisation of sex/gender 5 'All that counts is the going': Rosi Braidotti's nomadic subject 6 Donna Haraway's promising monsters PART III Against purity 7 Power, identity and impure spaces 8 Theorising 'women' in a postcolonial mode