Yuanfang Dai is assistant professor of writing and philosophy at Michigan State University.

This book makes a significant contribution to post-colonial feminist discourse. In Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese-American Encounters, Yuanfang Dai offers a thought-provoking critique of existing feminist models and proposes “transcultural feminism” (vis-à-vis “transnational feminism”) as an alternative. The book invites the readers to rethink what “culture” means as it intersects with feminism and with the dense thicket of multiculturalism.

• ContentsIntroduction Part One The “Difference Critique” and the Feminist Identity PoliticsChapter 1 Women’s Oppression in Different Forms: Against “Inessential ‘Womanness’”Chapter 2 Theory of IntersectionalityChapter 3 Unwanted Feminist Identity Politics: Postmodernist Category SkepticismChapter 4 Women’s Identity and the Necessity of DifferencesPart Two From Multiculturalism to TransculturalismChapter 5 Reconceptualizing “Culture”: Examining Tensions between Multiculturalism and FeminismChapter 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 SolidarityChapter 10 Looking to the East: Chinese Confucian Philosophy and FeminismChapter 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 ThinkingConclusion BibliographyAbout the Author

Yuanfang Dai is assistant professor of writing and philosophy at Michigan State University.

This book makes a significant contribution to post-colonial feminist discourse. In Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese-American Encounters, Yuanfang Dai offers a thought-provoking critique of existing feminist models and proposes “transcultural feminism” (vis-à-vis “transnational feminism”) as an alternative. The book invites the readers to rethink what “culture” means as it intersects with feminism and with the dense thicket of multiculturalism.

• ContentsIntroduction Part One The “Difference Critique” and the Feminist Identity PoliticsChapter 1 Women’s Oppression in Different Forms: Against “Inessential ‘Womanness’”Chapter 2 Theory of IntersectionalityChapter 3 Unwanted Feminist Identity Politics: Postmodernist Category SkepticismChapter 4 Women’s Identity and the Necessity of DifferencesPart Two From Multiculturalism to TransculturalismChapter 5 Reconceptualizing “Culture”: Examining Tensions between Multiculturalism and FeminismChapter 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 SolidarityChapter 10 Looking to the East: Chinese Confucian Philosophy and FeminismChapter 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 ThinkingConclusion BibliographyAbout the Author

Yuanfang Dai is assistant professor of writing and philosophy at Michigan State University.

This book makes a significant contribution to post-colonial feminist discourse. In Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese-American Encounters, Yuanfang Dai offers a thought-provoking critique of existing feminist models and proposes “transcultural feminism” (vis-à-vis “transnational feminism”) as an alternative. The book invites the readers to rethink what “culture” means as it intersects with feminism and with the dense thicket of multiculturalism.

• ContentsIntroduction Part One The “Difference Critique” and the Feminist Identity PoliticsChapter 1 Women’s Oppression in Different Forms: Against “Inessential ‘Womanness’”Chapter 2 Theory of IntersectionalityChapter 3 Unwanted Feminist Identity Politics: Postmodernist Category SkepticismChapter 4 Women’s Identity and the Necessity of DifferencesPart Two From Multiculturalism to TransculturalismChapter 5 Reconceptualizing “Culture”: Examining Tensions between Multiculturalism and FeminismChapter 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 SolidarityChapter 10 Looking to the East: Chinese Confucian Philosophy and FeminismChapter 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 ThinkingConclusion BibliographyAbout the Author