Decolonizing Universalism

A Transnational Feminist Ethic

AvSerene J. Khader

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Decolonizing Universalism argues that feminism can respect cultural and religious differences and acknowledge the legacy of imperialism without surrendering its core ethical commitments. Transcending relativism/ universalism debates that reduce feminism to a Western notion, Serene J. Khader proposes a feminist vision that is sensitive to postcolonial and antiracist concerns. Khader criticizes the false universalism of what she calls 'Enlightenment liberalism,' a worldview according to which the West is the one true exemplar of gender justice and moral progress is best achieved through economic independence and the abandonment of tradition. She argues that anti-imperialist feminists must rediscover the normative core of feminism and rethink the role of moral ideals in transnational feminist praxis. What emerges is a nonideal universalism that rejects missionary feminisms that treat Western intervention and the spread of Enlightenment liberalism as the path to global gender injustice.The book draws on evidence from transnational women's movements and development practice in addition to arguments from political philosophy and postcolonial and decolonial theory, offering a rich moral vision for twenty-first century feminism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-03
Mått:236 x 160 x 15 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Feminist Philosophy
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190664190
Utmärkelser:Honorable mention, Global Development Studies book award, International Studies Association

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Serene J. Khader is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College. She is the also the author of Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment and co-editor, with Ann Garry and Alison Stone, of The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy.

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In this book, Serene Khader masterfully argues for a transnational feminist ethic that retains moral universalism. ... Khader's book will be particularly helpful to Western feminists and a wake-up call to white feminists whose vision of feminism is a vehicle for implicitly imperialist values. By raising explicit questions about the harms of missionary feminism, addressing values as they impact public life, and considering empirical evidence about normative claims made by feminists, Khader has made a meaningful contribution to the field.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Imperialism in the Name of FeminismChapter 1. Towards a Decolonial Feminist UniversalismChapter 2. Individualism: Beyond Okin's UltimatumChapter 3. Autonomy and the Secular: Do Muslim Women Need Freedom?Chapter 4. Gender Role Eliminativism: Compelementarian Challenges to FeminismChapter 5. Gender Role Eliminativism: Feminized Power and the Public