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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 the respect of difference and cross-cultural un...

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 the respect of difference and cross-cultural un...

The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issuesthe new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonialfeminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global, andpostcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, humanrights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of thefamily, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progr...