Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power - Softcover

Fernandes, Leela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814770339 ISBN 13: 9780814770337

Verlag: NYU Press, 2013

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Book by Fernandes Leela

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Críticas:

"Leela Fernandes focuses a sharp analytic lenson the representational practices, cross-border politics, and symbolicconstructions of transnationalism within U.S. feminism. Her call foraccountability and interrogation of feminist knowledge production is one thatshould be heard by all those interested in challenging inequalities andresisting disciplining tendencies within transnational feminist praxis."-Nancy Naples,author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty "With a clear introduction that offers each chapter's argument, this text is simultaneously challenging and approachable. It is accessible for specific purposes, as each essay can stand alone. The arguments are clearly and systematically laid out in this thoroughly research and articulate text."-, Journal of American Culture "Unveiling the reproduction of the national inthe transnational and the disciplining of interdisciplinarity, Fernandes deftlyillustrates the minefields that women's and gender studies, postcolonial, andother interdisciplinary scholars traverse as they seek to producetransformative knowledge. Transnational Feminism in the United States isessential reading, ushering us into a more ethical practice of feminism andpolitics."-Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd,author of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics "Will help [readers] realize how transnational feminism has been influenced by the dominant language of human rights . . . [and] sharpens a critical sensibility on how to study women's issues globally."-Hypatia "Through this collection's five loosely connected essays...full of provocative arguments, Fernandes offers a cautionary analysis of the trajectory of 'transnational feminism' in women's studies in the U.S. academy." -WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

Reseña del editor:

The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary issues. Transnational feminist perspectives have provided a unique outlook on women’s lives and have deepened our understanding of the gendered nature of global processes. Transnational Feminism in the United States examines how transnational perspectives shape the ways in which we create and disseminate knowledge about the world within the United States, and how the paradigm of transnational feminism is affected by national narratives and public discourses within the country itself.  An innovative theoretical project that is both deconstructive and constructive, this bookinterrogates the limits of feminist thought, primarily through case studies that illustrate its power to create new fields of research out of traditionally interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. Leela Fernandes discusses ways to approach, analyze, and capture processes that exceed and unsettle the nation-state within the transnational feminist paradigm. Examining the links between power and knowledge that bind interdisciplinary theory and research, she shines new light on issues such as human rights as well as academic debates about transnational feminist perspectives on global issues. A thought-provoking analysis, Transnational Feminism in the United States powerfully contributes to the field of Women’s Studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on feminist theory and gender from a global perspective.

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• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0814770339
• ISBN 13: 9780814770337
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258