Against Purity

Description

Against Purity confronts the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues of gender with other forms of difference| such as race| ethnicity and nation. This pioneering study places recent feminist theory from India in critical conversation with the work of key Western thinkers such as Butler| haraway and Irigaray and argues that| through such postcolonial encounters| contemporary feminist thought can begin to work ‘against purity’ in order to develop more complex models of power| identity and the self| ultimately to redefine ‘women’ as the subject of feminism.
Theoretically grounded yet written in an accessible style| this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity| power and difference.