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Book SynopsisBringing together classic and writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, this title addresses some of the pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. It offers a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anti-capitalist struggles.
Trade Review“Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a transnational feminist practice today. She provides resources for feminist engagements with difference, identity politics, the commodification of knowledge, and globalization and its effects. Shifts in the global political and economic landscape as well as Mohanty's own shifting location enable her to identify exhilarating new directions for feminist theory and practice.”—Sandra Harding, coeditor of
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
“Over the last two decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has produced an extraordinary body of writings on transnational feminism, radically changing the way we think about such categories as ‘third world women,’ ‘women of color’ and ‘globalization.’ This volume combines her now classic essays with new writings that accentuate the centrality of anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women's studies today.”—Angela Y. Davis
"Chandra Talpade Mohanty is unequivocally one of the most important feminist theorists and scholars writing and publishing today. In this collection, her essays take on new meaning to play important parts in what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of the exploitation of women within neocolonial capitalism and an elaboration of antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist solidarity practices."—Lisa Lowe, author of
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics”The juxtaposition of these essays brings into sharp focus the theoretical framework Chandra Talpade Mohanty has developed and makes visible the enormity, the force, and the uniqueness of her contribution.”—Ruth Frankenberg, editor of
Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and Feminist Commitments 1
Part One. Decolonizing Feminism
1. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 17
2. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism 43
3. What's Home Got to Do with It? (with Biddy Martin) 85
4. Sisterhood, Coalition, and the Politics of Experience
106
5. Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation 124
Part Two. Demystifying Capitalism
6. Women Workers and the Politics of Solidarity 139
7. Privatized Citizenship, Corporate Academies, and Feminist Projects 169
8. Race, Multiculturalism, and Pedagogies of Dissent
Part Three. Reorienting Feminism 190
9. “Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles 221
Notes 253
Bibliography 275
Index 295
