The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary issues. Transnational feminist perspectives have provided a unique outlook on women’s lives and have deepened our understanding of the gendered nature of global processes. Transnational Feminism in the United States examines how transnational perspectives shape the ways in which we create and disseminate knowledge about the world within the United States, and how the paradigm of transnational feminism is affected by national narratives and public discourses within the country itself. An innovative theoretical project that is both deconstructive and constructive, this bookinterrogates the limits of feminist thought, primarily through case studies that illustrate its power to create new fields of research out of traditionally interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. Leela Fernandes discusses ways to approach, analyze, and capture processes that exceed and unsettle the nation-state within the transnational feminist paradigm. Examining the links between power and knowledge that bind interdisciplinary theory and research, she shines new light on issues such as human rights as well as academic debates about transnational feminist perspectives on global issues. A thought-provoking analysis, Transnational Feminism in the United States powerfully contributes to the field of Women’s Studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on feminist theory and gender from a global perspective.
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Contributes to central debates in the field of women's studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on feminist theory and gender from a global perspective
1. Introduction2. U.S. State Practices and the Rhetoric of Human Rights3. Transnational Economies of Representation and the Labor of the Traveling Subaltern4. Regimes of Visibility and Transnational Feminist Knowledge 5. Institutional Practice and the Field of Women's Studies 6. Race, Transnational Feminism, and Paradigms of Difference 7. Afterword: The Moment of Transnational Feminism in the United States
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"With a clear introduction that offers each chapters argument, this text is simultaneously challenging and approachable. It is accessible for specific purposes, as each essay can stand alone. The arguments are clearly and systematically laid out in this thoroughly research and articulate text."
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Contributes to central debates in the field of women's studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on feminist theory and gender from a global perspective

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780814770337
Publisert
2013-03-11
Utgiver
Vendor
New York University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Leela Fernandes is the Glenda Dickerson Collegiate Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and author of India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform; Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills; and Transforming Feminist Practice.