Transcultural Feminist Philosophy

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

• 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

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.