Decentering the Center

Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World

By: Uma Narayan (Editor), Sandra Harding (Editor)

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A considerable amount of feminist thinking today works across borders in ways that unsettle familiar philosophical and political frameworks. Moreover, feminist work is increasingly attentive to factors such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religion that configure the lives of different groups of women and men in multiple ways within contemporary cultures and nation-states. This work also crosses regional, national, and continental boundaries. The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global , and postcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, human rights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of the family, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progress, modernity, the unity of scientific method, the desirability of universal knowledge claims, and other ideas central to philosophy.

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"These essays by well-known feminist thinkers address philosophical issues concerning ethics, politics, knowledge, science, human experience from multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist perspectives... The range of topics addressed is impressive and the clarity of the writing makes it accessible to reflective readers unfamiliar with the scholarly literature."--The Philosopher's Magazine, Summer 2001

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Introduction
Globalizing Feminist Ethics	p. 1
Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences	p. 26
Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts	p. 47
How to Think Globally: Stretching the Limits of Imagination	p. 67
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism	p. 80
"It's Not Philosophy"	p. 101
Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of "Experience"	p. 110
Sitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize Feminisms	p. 128
It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation	p. 156
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development	p. 177
Resisting the Veil of Privilege: Building Bridge Identities as an Ethico-Politics of Global Feminisms	p. 189
Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics: Revisiting Anzaldua	p. 208
Burnt Offerings to Rationality: A Feminist Reading of the Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Enrique Dussel's Theory of Modernity	p. 226
Gender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of Science	p. 240
What Should White People Do?	p. 262
Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character	p. 283
Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific Practice	p. 299
Notes on Contributors	p. 318
Index	p. 321
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