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Her critique of Eurocentrism, racism, and imperialism is especially valuable and relevant in the context of geopolitical inequalities based in the hegemony of the United States and the exportation of U.S.-style women’s studies to other parts of the world and in our particular social context where the discourse of democracy and the liberation of women has become a partner to the imperialist intentions of the current administration in the United States.” - Minoo Moallem, Feminist Studies “Mohanty’s book is a great contribution to the moment of the internationalization of women’s studies. Mohanty's probing and provocative analyses of key concepts in feminist thought-'home,' 'sisterhood,' 'experience,' 'community'-lead the way toward a feminism without borders, a feminism fully engaged with the realities of a transnational world. She considers the evolution of interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies pedagogies of accommodation and dissent and transnational women's movements for grassroots ecological solutions and consumer, health, and reproductive rights. In between these essays, Mohanty meditates on the lives of women workers at different ends of the global assembly line (in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States) feminist writing on experience, identity, and community dominant conceptions of multiculturalism and citizenship and the corporatization of the North American academy. Mohanty offers here a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anticapitalist struggles.įeminism without Borders opens with Mohanty's influential critique of western feminism ('Under Western Eyes') and closes with a reconsideration of that piece based on her latest thinking regarding the ways that gender matters in the racial, class, and national formations of globalization. This collection highlights the concerns running throughout her pioneering work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders, and the relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and social movements.

Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and activism for nearly two decades.

Labor and Working-Class History Associationīringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.

Feminism without borders decolonizing theory practicing solidarity