Transcultural Feminist Philosophy - Rethinking Difference and Solidarity Through Chinese American

Yuanfang Dai argues that, despite the many forms of gender oppression in different societies and cultures, it is still possible to speak generally of women’s oppression. This notion of shared oppression can inform a transcultural feminist solidarity that challenges structural gender oppression across social and cultural differences.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction

Part One The "Difference Critique" and the Feminist Identity Politics

Chapter 1 Women's Oppression in Different Forms: Against "Inessential 'Womanness'"

Chapter 2 Theory of IntersectionalityChapter 3 Unwanted Feminist Identity Politics: Postmodernist Category Skepticism

Chapter 4 Women's Identity and the Necessity of Differences

Part Two From Multiculturalism to Transculturalism

Chapter 5 Reconceptualizing "Culture": Examining Tensions between Multiculturalism and Feminism

Chapter 6 Challenging "Multiculturalism": Feminist Multiculturalism and the Ideology of Multiculturalism

Chapter 7 Displacing Multiculturalism with an Alternative Framework: A Way to Advance the Postcolonial Feminist Critique of Multiculturalism

Chapter 8 The Transcultural Perspective as the Alternative to the Multicultural Approach

Part Three Transcultural Feminist Solidarity, Chinese Feminist Experiences, and Transcultural Feminist Philosophy

Chapter 9 Transcultural Feminist Solidarity

Chapter 10 Looking to the East: Chinese Confucian Philosophy and FeminismChapter 11 Looking to the West: A Brief History of Theory Development in Contemporary Chinese Feminism Chapter 12 Commentary on Debates and Prospects in Contemporary Chinese Feminist ThinkingConclusion BibliographyAbout the Author

About the author

Yuanfang Dai is assistant professor of writing and philosophy at Michigan State University.

Summary

Yuanfang Dai argues that it is possible to speak generally of women's oppression despite the fact that women experience gender oppression in different forms. She proposes that it is necessary to explore the possibilities of transcultural feminist solidarity among women across cultural differences.

Product details

• Authors: Yuanfang Dai
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781498564816
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6481-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices; Feminist Strategies: Flexible
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; USA, China, PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Asian studies, Chinese feminism, Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, Confucian feminism, cultural studies, difference critique, East Asian studies, Eastern philosophy, feminism, feminist philo, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Feminism and feminist theory, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy