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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity. It focuses on political issues and on questions of the body.
Trade Review"
Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global modernity." -- Bonnie Kime Scott * author of Selected Letters of Rebecca West *
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Feminist Locations comes at a new watershed for feminist studies and has important things to say about identity politics, the spaces within feminism, and global modernity." -- Bonnie Kime Scott * author of Selected Letters of Rebecca West *
Table of ContentsLocational feminism: gender, cultural geographies, and geopolitical literacy / Susan Stanford Friedman
Only contradictions on offer: anglophone feminism at the millennium / Lynne Segal
Last past the post: theory, futurity, feminism / Elaine K. Chang
Re(con)figuring space, time, and matter / Karen Barad
Who's to navigate and who's to steer? A consideration of the role of theory in feminist struggle / Cheryl Johnson-Odim
Women's human rights: the challenges of global feminism and diversity / Charlotte Bunch
Rethinking globalization: gender and the nation in India / Leela Fernandes
Constructing cooperation: feminist activism and NAFTA / Debra J. Liebowitz
The many faces of activism / Cynthia Saltzman
Feminism and the politics of the Hindu goddess / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
The praxis of food work in Poland / Anne C. Bellows
Stuff / Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante
Sons and m(others): framing the maternal body and the politics of reproduction in a south Indian context / Radha S. Hegde
Trauma, aging, and melodrama / E. Ann Kaplan
