Decentering the center : philosophy for a multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist world / edited by Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding.

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Other Authors: Narayan, Uma, Harding, Sandra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2000.
Series:Hypatia book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Globalizing Feminist Ethics
  • 2. Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences
  • 3. Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts
  • 4. How to Think Globally: Stretching the Limits of Imagination
  • 5. Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
  • 6. "It's Not Philosophy"
  • 7. Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of "Experience"
  • 8. Sitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize Feminisms
  • 9. It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation
  • 10. Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
  • 11. Resisting the Veil of Privilege: Building Bridge Identities as an Ethico-Politics of Global Feminisms
  • 12. Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics: Revisiting Anzaldua
  • 13. Burnt Offerings to Rationality: A Feminist Reading of the Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Enrique Dussel's Theory of Modernity
  • 14. Gender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of Science
  • 15. What Should White People Do?
  • 16. Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character
  • 17. Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific Practice
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.
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