Subtitle: Global and Local, Theory and Practice
Author: Edited by Marianne DeKoven
Subject: Gender Studies/Cultural Studies
Paper ISBN 0-8135-2923-9
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2922-0
Pages: 320 pp., 5 b&w illus.
Description: Explores the future of feminist theory and activism in light of the global/local dynamic.
Contemporary feminist scholarship has done much to challenge the many binary constructions at the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, theory/practice, and, most notably, masculine/feminine. Feminist criticism has reshaped these conceptions by breaking them apart and reconfiguring them into intersecting, relational fields of difference. The contributors to this collection look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity.
In the first part of this book, current feminist theory is assessed for possible future directions. Part two focuses primarily on political issues and part three on questions of the body. Topics include feminist success versus social backlash, global womens human rights, postcolonial feminism, the politics of reproduction, and narratives of womens aging in postmodern culture.
Contributors: Karen Barad, Anne C. Bellows, Charlotte Bunch, Nao Bustamante, Elaine K. Chang, Marianne DeKoven, Leela Fernandes, Susan Stanford Friedman, Coco Fusco, Radha S. Hegde, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, E. Ann Kaplan, Debra J. Liebowitz, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Cynthia Saltzman, Lynne Segal
Marianne DeKoven is a professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism and A Different Language: Gertrude Steins Experimental Writing.
Praise for Feminist Locations
"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
