Feminisms of Discontent
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-945294-1 (ISBN)
In ten chapters, the volume covers a wide range of issues from around the world: feminist engagement with law; feminism's engagement with sexuality and queer politics; the idea of freedom and equality in the neoliberal frame; postcolonial feminism, etc. Well-known feminist scholars such as Brenda Cossman, Ratna Kapur, Aziza Ahmed, Margaret Thornton, etc. come together from different locations-India, US, Europe, Australia, and Canada-for this critical assessment and questioning of feminist theory and politics. The volume critically engages certain currents in feminist theory and practice, such as 'subordination', 'dominance', 'structural', 'governance', 'cultural' and 'carceral' feminism. Pointing out the dangers of feminist analyses that rely on dualistic understandings of sex/gender as also the assumed inevitability of women's subordination and the harmfulness of (hetero)sexuality for women, this volume decries such narrow and self-referential feminist paradigms. The volume also shows how these have not only failed to offer persuasive appraisals of contemporary international problems but have also ended up serving and legitimizing neoliberal and neoconservative projects.
Ashleigh Barnes is Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida Coastal Law School, University of Florida. Previously, she has been Assistant Professor of Law, Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat, India.
Foreword by Dianne Otto ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Discontenting Feminism ; SECTION I: A FEMINIST PROJECT: THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF FEMINIST POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT ; 1.Feminism in Hard Times: From Criticism to Critique Brenda Cossman ; 2.Slutwalk Couture : The Politics of Feminism LiteRatna Kapur ; 3.Out in the World: Multi-Level Governance for Gender Equality Kerry Rittich ; 4 Neoliberal Governmentality and the Retreat from Gender EqualityMargaret Thornton ; 5.Normativity, Power and Feminist Politics: Some Questions for Indian Feminism/sLakshmi Arya ; SECTION II: FEMINISM AND OTHER IDENTITY CATEGORIES: BEYOND GENDER ; 6.A Genealogy of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Ashleigh Barnes ; 7.Icons and Measures: (Re)presenting Victims in Truth Commission Processes Vasuki Nesiah ; 8. Postcolonial Feminism: Liberal Feminism's (Humanist) 'Sister'? Maneesha Deckha ; 9.When Men Are Harmed: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Torture at Abu Ghraib Aziza Ahmed ; 10.Queering Democracy: The Politics of Erotic Love Arvind Narrain ; Index
Verlagsort | New Delhi |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 147 x 224 mm |
Gewicht | 460 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-945294-6 / 0199452946 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-945294-1 / 9780199452941 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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