Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms by Gedalof, Irene

Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415215879)

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Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms by Gedalof, Irene

Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms

$22.95
Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms by Gedalof, Irene

Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Irene Gedalof
ISBN-10: 0415215870
ISBN-13: 9780415215879
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/21/1999
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.48w x 0.72d
By Irene Gedalof
By Irene Gedalof
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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.

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