Decentering the Center
Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World
Published on 22. March 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-253-21384-6 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, human rights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of the family, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progress, modernity, the unity of scientific method, the desirability of universal knowledge claims, and other ideas central to philosophy.
Reviews / Votes
"These essays by well-known feminist thinkers address philosophical issues concerning ethics, politics, knowledge, science, human experience from multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist perspectives... The range of topics addressed is impressive and the clarity of the writing makes it accessible to reflective readers unfamiliar with the scholarly literature."--The Philosopher's Magazine, Summer 2001More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 index
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Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-21384-6 (9780253213846)
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Persons
Uma Narayan is associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College. She is the author of Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism and co-editor, with Mary Lyndon Shanley of Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives.
Sandra Harding is professor of education and women's studies at the University of California Los angeles. She is the editor of The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future, and the co-author of a chapter in UNESCO's World Science Report 1996 entitled Science and Technology: The Gender Dimension. Her most recent book is Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies.
Sandra Harding is professor of education and women's studies at the University of California Los angeles. She is the editor of The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future, and the co-author of a chapter in UNESCO's World Science Report 1996 entitled Science and Technology: The Gender Dimension. Her most recent book is Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies.
Content
Introduction. Border Crossings
Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding
Globalizing Feminist Ethics
Alison M. Jaggar
Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences
Susan Moller Okin
Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts
Ofelia Schutte
How to Think Globally: Stretching the Limits of Imagination
Lorraine Code
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Uma Narayan
"It's Not Philosophy"
Andrea Nye
Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of "Experience"
Shari Stone-Mediatore
Sitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize Feminisms
Aida Hurtado
What Should White People Do?
Linda Martin Alcoff
Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character
Alison Bailey
Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific Practice
Ann E. Cudd
It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation
Patricia Hill Collins
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
Drucilla K. Barker
Resisting the Veil of Privilege: Building Bridge Identities as an Ethico-Politics of Global Feminisms
Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics: Revisiting Anzaldua
Melissa Wright
Burnt Offerings to Rationality: A Feminist Reading of the Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Enrique Dussel's Theory of Modernity
Lynda Lange
Gender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of Science
Sandra Harding
Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding
Globalizing Feminist Ethics
Alison M. Jaggar
Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences
Susan Moller Okin
Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts
Ofelia Schutte
How to Think Globally: Stretching the Limits of Imagination
Lorraine Code
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Uma Narayan
"It's Not Philosophy"
Andrea Nye
Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of "Experience"
Shari Stone-Mediatore
Sitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize Feminisms
Aida Hurtado
What Should White People Do?
Linda Martin Alcoff
Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character
Alison Bailey
Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific Practice
Ann E. Cudd
It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation
Patricia Hill Collins
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
Drucilla K. Barker
Resisting the Veil of Privilege: Building Bridge Identities as an Ethico-Politics of Global Feminisms
Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics: Revisiting Anzaldua
Melissa Wright
Burnt Offerings to Rationality: A Feminist Reading of the Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Enrique Dussel's Theory of Modernity
Lynda Lange
Gender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of Science
Sandra Harding