Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor MADINA TLOSTANOVAProfessor of History of Philosophy at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Klappentext Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses of Western feminist theory and woman of color feminism, hence Eurasian borderland feminism must chart a third path. Zusammenfassung Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses of Western feminist theory and woman of color feminism! hence Eurasian borderland feminism must chart a third path. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I: FROM THIRD-WORLD FEMINISM TO DECOLONIAL GENDER EPISTEMOLOGIES Between Third-World/Women of Color Feminism and Decolonial Feminism Decolonial Feminism and the Decolonial Turn PART II: COLONIALITY OF GENDER IN THE WORLD OF THE SECONDARY COLONIAL DIFFERENCE (CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA) Race/Body/Gender and Coloniality in the Russian/Soviet Empire and its Colonies Quasi-Scientific Racism and Gender in Russian and Soviet discourses Dirt Fetish and Commodity Racism Soviet Way Colonial Gender Tricksterism in Central Asia and Caucasus PART III: TRANS-EPISTEMIC DIALOGUES AND CONTEMPORARY GENDER DISCOURSES IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA Eurasian Borderlands in Dialogue with Mesoamerica Two Dialogues Conclusion: Why Cut the Feet in Order to Fit the Western Shoes?

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• Authors: M Tlostanova, M. Tlostanova, Madina Tlostanova, Tlostanova Madina
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2010
• EAN: 9780230108424
• ISBN: 978-0-230-10842-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Comparative Feminist Studies; Comparative Feminist Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Soziologie, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Politik und Staat, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Political Sociology, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Epistemology, Sociology, general, area studies, Regional Studies, Philosophie: Epistemologie und Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociocultural Anthropology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge