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Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms by Irene Gedalof (Paperback, 1999)

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Against Purity confronts the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues of gender with other forms of difference, such as race, ethnicity and nation. This pioneering study places recent feminist theory from India in critical conversation with the work of key Western thinkers such as Butler, Haraway and Irigaray and argues that, through such postcolonial encounters, contemporary feminist thought can begin to work 'against purity' in order to develop more complex roles of power, identity and the self, ultimately to redefine 'women' as the subject of feminism. Theoretically grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference. It will be of

Book Title
Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms
Author
Irene Gedalof
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Sciences, Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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