Decolonizing Universalism argues that feminism can respect cultural
and religious differences and acknowledge the legacy of imperialism
without surrendering its core ethical commitments. Transcending
relativism/ universalism debates that reduce feminism to a Western
notion, Serene J. Khader proposes a feminist vision that is
sensitive to postcolonial and antiracist concerns. Khader
criticizes the false universalism of what she calls 'Enlightenment
liberalism,' a worldview according to which the West is the one
true exemplar of gender justice and moral progress is best achieved
through economic independence and the abandonment of tradition. She
argues that anti-imperialist feminists must rediscover the
normative core of feminism and rethink the role of moral ideals in
transnational feminist praxis. What emerges is a nonideal
universalism that rejects missionary feminisms that treat Western
intervention and the spread of Enlightenment liberalism as the path
to global gender injustice. The book draws on evidence from
transnational women's movements and development practice in
addition to arguments from political philosophy and postcolonial
and decolonial theory, offering a rich moral vision for
twenty-first century feminism.
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