Decolonizing Universalism

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.

• 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

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.