Decolonizing Feminism

Margaret A. McLaren teaches at Rollins College where she holds the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Chair of Philosophy. She is the author of Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (2002).

• Preface, Chandra Mohanty / Introduction, Margaret A. McLaren / Part One: Decolonizing Epistemologies, Methods, and Knowledges / 1. Decolonizing Feminist Philosophy, Linda Martín Alcoff / 2. Knowing without Borders and the Work of Epistemic Gathering, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. / Part Two: Re-thinking Rights / 3. Indigenous/Campesina Embodied Knowledge, Human Rights Awards, and Lessons for Transnational Feminist Solidarity, Pascha Bueno-Hansen and Sylvanna M. Falcón / 4. Decolonizing Rights: Transnational Feminism and “Women’s Rights as Human Rights”, Margaret A. McLaren / Part Three: Citizenship and Immigration: The Space Between / 5. Constitutional Patriotism and Political Membership: A Feminist Decolonization of Habermas and Benhabib, Kanchana Mahadevan / 6. “Home-making” and “World-Traveling”: Decolonizing the Space-Between in Transnational Feminist Thought, Celia T. Bardwell-Jones / 7. The Special Plight of Women Refugees, Kelly Oliver / Part Four: Decolonizing Dialogue, Solidarity, and Freedom / 8. The Dynamics of Transnational Feminist Dialogue, Barbara Fultner / 9. Building Transnational Feminist Solidarity Networks, Serio A. Gallegos / 10. Decolonizing Feminist Freedom: Indigenous Relationalities, Allison Weir / Index / About the Contributors

Decolonizing Feminism offers original, nuanced, and visionary feminist analysis that crosses epistemological and disciplinary borders, and provides conceptual tools to decolonize hegemonic feminisms and fracture the transnational as a normativizing gesture.