Decentering the Center

Uma Narayan is associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College. She is the author of Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism and co-editor, with Mary Lyndon Shanley of Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives.Sandra Harding is professor of education and women's studies at the University of California Los angeles. She is the editor of The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future, and the co-author of a chapter in UNESCO's World Science Report 1996 entitled Science and Technology: The Gender Dimension. Her most recent book is Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies.

"These essays by well-known feminist thinkers address philosophical issues concerning ethics, politics, knowledge, science, human experience from multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist perspectives... The range of topics addressed is impressive and the clarity of the writing makes it accessible to reflective readers unfamiliar with the scholarly literature."--The Philosopher's Magazine, Summer 2001

• Introduction. Border CrossingsUma Narayan and Sandra HardingGlobalizing Feminist EthicsAlison M. JaggarFeminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural DifferencesSusan Moller OkinCultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South ContextsOfelia SchutteHow to Think Globally: Stretching the Limits of ImaginationLorraine CodeEssence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural EssentialismUma Narayan"It's Not Philosophy"Andrea NyeChandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of "Experience"Shari Stone-MediatoreSitios y Lenguas: Chicanas Theorize FeminismsAída HurtadoWhat Should White People Do?Linda Martín AlcoffLocating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White CharacterAlison BaileyMulticulturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific PracticeAnn E. CuddIt's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and NationPatricia Hill CollinsDualisms, Discourse, and DevelopmentDrucilla K. BarkerResisting the Veil of Privilege: Building Bridge Identities as an Ethico-Politics of Global FeminismsMaquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics: Revisiting AnzaldúaMelissa WrightBurnt Offerings to Rationality: A Feminist Reading of the Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Enrique Dussel's Theory of ModernityLynda LangeGender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of ScienceSandra Harding