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  • Dislocating Cultures

    Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

    by Uma Narayan ...
    Series series Thinking Gender
    Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Singing in the Fire

    Stories of Women in Philosophy

    by Sandra Bartky, Claudia Card, Stephanie Lewis, Andrea Nye, Kristin Schrader-Frechette, Ofelia Schutte, Karen Warren, Teresa Brennan, Virginia Held, Alison Jaggar, Uma Narayan, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates-absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken huge steps in the philosophy profession over the past 50 years. Still, to this day, well-established women philosophers ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

    by Chandra Talpade Mohanty ...
    Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Idea of Justice

    by Amartya Kumar Sen ...
    Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how - and how well - people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Medicine of Peace

    Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence

    by Jeffrey Paul Ansloos ...
    In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex intersections of colonial violence, the current status of Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of nonviolence. Indigenous youth are disproportionately at risk for violent victimization and incarceration within the justice system. They are also marginalized and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Theorizing Empowerment

    Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought

    Edited by Notisha Massaquoi, Njoki Nathani Wane ...
    Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist thought mean to Black Canadian feminists in the Diaspora? What does it means to have a feminist ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?

    by Graham Riach ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Imaginary Institution of India

    Politics and Ideas

    by Sudipta Kaviraj ...
    For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Feminism and Ecology

    by Mary Mellor ...
    The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within it.Mellor examines the connections between feminism and the green movement, and outlines the contributions of the major participants, while contextualizing ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Queer Activism in India

    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    by Naisargi N. Dave, Naisargi N. Davé ...
    In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that constitute queer ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Gendered Citizenship

    Historical and Conceptual Explorations

    by Anupama Roy ...
    Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community ... Read more

    $5.99 USD