Feminisms in Asia : introduction
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
Publication Date
12-1-2001
Volume
2
Issue
3
First Page
387
Last Page
388
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Abstract
The contentious global history of modernity, and `our’ (call it `Asian’ for the moment) difficult and unequal relationship with the `West’, impinge on the claim to international solidarity made by post-1970s feminism, a claim articulated both in and out of western locations, although for different reasons. Often, even a radical internationalist claim has led, in non-western societies, to the branding of local feminisms as alien and intrusive by hostile forces on both left and right. A com- mon response by feminists was to trace the indigenous genealogies of contemporary feminism; but such an enterprise, focusing as it did on the subject of `women’, tended not to address the complex formation of gender-identity in its relation to class, caste, race, ethnicity, religious community, etc.
DOI
10.1080/14649370120096503
Print ISSN
14649373
E-ISSN
14698447
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Niranjana, T. (2001). Feminisms in Asia: Introduction. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2(3), 387-388. doi: 10.1080/14649370120096503