Contemporary feminist scholarship and activism has done much to
reveal, challenge, and Question the many binary constructions at
the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, universal/particular,
theory/practice, global/local and, most notably,
masculine/feminine. Feminist criticism has reshaped these
conceptions by breaking them apart, disassembling, and
reconfiguring these binaries into shifting, intersecting,
relational fields of difference. The contributors to this volume
look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in
terms of their complex relationship with the global and local
configurations of postmodernity.
In part 1 of Feminist Locations, the current state of feminist
theory is discussed in order to assess the possible future
directions for an interdependent theory and practice. Parts 2 and 3
address the relationship between the local and the global in
current and future feminist theory and practice, with part 2
focused primarily on political issues and part 3 on Questions of
the body. Specific essays range across an impressive range of
issues, including feminist success versus social backlash, women's
rights as human rights, NAFTA, the Yale clerical workers' strike of
1984-85, the intersection of global and local political discourse
in India, politics of reproduction, and narratives of women's aging
in postmodern culture.
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