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Transcultural Feminist Philosophy
Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese – American Encounters
Transcultural Feminist Philosophy
Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese – American Encounters
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The question of difference—how to accommodate the complexity and diversity of women’s experiences—remains a central point of reference in debates among feminist thinkers. In Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity Through Chinese-American Encounters, Yuanfang Dai addresses influential approaches to the feminist difference critique. Acknowledging that gender oppression assumes different forms in different social and cultural locations, Dai denies that this rules out generalizing about women’s experiences. She proposes a category of women that captures and respects differences and dynamics among women and that can inform possibilities for women in the future. Through a critical examination of multicultural and postcolonial feminisms, she argues that we need both to rethink the concept of culture and to rework multiculturalism as an analytical and political idea. Developing a notion of transculturalism, she draws on Chinese feminist scholarship as she explores how a transcultural approach can address tensions between cultural differences and feminist solidarity. Transcultural thought and action offers a new way to explore the conditions of women’s collective struggles.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One The “Difference Critique” and the Feminist Identity Politics
Chapter 1 Women’s Oppression in Different Forms: Against “Inessential ‘Womanness’”
Chapter 2 Theory of IntersectionalityChapter 3 Unwanted Feminist Identity Politics: Postmodernist Category Skepticism
Chapter 4 Women’s Identity and the Necessity of Differences
Part Two From Multiculturalism to Transculturalism
Chapter 5 Reconceptualizing “Culture”: Examining Tensions between Multiculturalism and Feminism
Chapter 6 Challenging “Multiculturalism”: Feminist Multiculturalism and the Ideology of Multiculturalism
Chapter 7 Displacing Multiculturalism with an Alternative Framework: A Way to Advance the Postcolonial Feminist Critique of Multiculturalism
Chapter 8 The Transcultural Perspective as the Alternative to the Multicultural Approach
Part Three Transcultural Feminist Solidarity, Chinese Feminist Experiences, and Transcultural Feminist Philosophy
Chapter 9 Transcultural Feminist Solidarity
Chapter 10 Looking to the East: Chinese Confucian Philosophy and FeminismChapter 11 Looking to the West: A Brief History of Theory Development in Contemporary Chinese Feminism Chapter 12 Commentary on Debates and Prospects in Contemporary Chinese Feminist ThinkingConclusion BibliographyAbout the Author
Product details
| Published | 30 Dec 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781498564816 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 229 x 161 mm |
| Series | Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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