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Author Gedalof, Irene, 1953-

Title Against purity : rethinking identity with Indian and Western feminisms / Irene Gedalof
Published London : Routledge, 1999

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Description viii, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Series Gender, racism, ethnicity
Gender, racism, ethnicity.
Contents Pt. I. Indian complications. 1. Women and community identities in Indian feminisms. 2. Agency, the self and the collective in Indian feminisms -- Pt. II. White Western feminisms and identity. 3. Luce/loose connections: Luce Irigaray, sexual difference, race and nation. 4. Female trouble: Judith Butler and the destabilisation of sex/gender. 5. 'All that counts is the going': Rosi Braidotti's nomadic subject. 6. Donna Haraway's promising monsters -- Pt. III. Against purity. 7. Power, identity and impure spaces. 8. Theorising 'women' in a postcolonial mode
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies.
Feminism -- India.
Feminist theory -- Cross-cultural studies.
Feminist theory -- Cross-cultural studies.
Feminist theory -- India.
Women -- Identity -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women -- Identity -- Cross-cultural studies.
LC no. 99030084
ISBN 0415215862
0415215870
Other Titles Rethinking identity with Indian and Western feminisms