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Book SynopsisA considerable amount of feminist thinking today works across borders in ways that unsettle familiar philosophical and political frameworks. This work also crosses regional, national, and continental boundaries, as feminists find they must think globally, act locally, as the popular slogan has it.
Trade Review"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 2001
Table of ContentsIntroduction. 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
Aída Hurtado
What Should White People Do?
Linda Martín 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 Anzaldúa
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
