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 Intersectionality
Chapter 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 Feminism
Chapter 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 Thinking
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Yuanfang Dai

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