Re-orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diversity in a Postcolonial World / Edition 1

by Chilla Bulbeck

Overview

What does feminism mean to the women of rural India, young Thai sex workers, or Filipino maids in Hong Kong? Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, Western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of "women of color." She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contests the issues that preoccupy contemporary Anglophone feminists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521589758
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/28/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Fracturing binarisms: first and third worlds; 2. Individual versus community; 3. Mothers and wives; 4. Sexual identities - western imperialism?; 5. The international traffic in women; Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"...the explosion of postcolonial and 'Third World' writing reminds us that we of the dominant cultural group need new ways of knowing....Re-orienting Western Feminisms will go a long way toward helping many of us achieve this goal....[It] is an invaluable intruduction to feminist theorizing as a political process." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

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