Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

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Review ------ "[Mohanty's] vision of transcultural, transnational feminist solidarity is particularly important these days. . . ." --Silja J. A. Talvi, "Women's Review of Books" "Now more than ever, the work of groundbreaking feminist and postcolonial theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty is indispensable. Her new book, "Feminism without Borders," is a collection of essays that interrogate notions of home, sisterhood, work, scholarship, and first-world feminism." --Bitch "[T]his collection would undoubtedly make a valuable starting point for undergraduate students wishing to gain an accessible and engaging overview of transnational feminist thought and how boundaries or borders produce particular politics and identities." --Julie Cupples, "Electronic Book Review" "Feminist theory and practice is clearly shaped by one's own experiences and level of political education, e.g. vis-a-vis the enduring reality of colonialism, imperialism, and hetero-patriarchy. . . . Mohanty gives us important tools on how to understand and ultimately dismantle this complex." --Mechthild Nagel, "Wagadu" "Persuasive and free of jargon, the book presents a refreshingly honest examination of transnational feminist issues. . . . [H]ere is a work that needs to be read and reflected upon and valued for the many fresh ins it offers and the new challenges it poses for feminist theorists as well as feminists." --Jasbir Jain," South Asian Review" "[A] breath of fresh air. . . . This book is a must-read for all feminist theorists wanting to reorient feminism towards the abolition of transnational capitalism, and to dismantle the regime of profit and wage-labour, suping it with the material conditions to emancipate all people from exploitation." --Anna M. Agathangelou, "International Feminist Journal of Politics" Feminism without Borders has already been widely assigned on feminist theory courses internationally, and its impact will be considerable. It is to be hoped that its readers will find in it not only a toolkit for undertaking theoretically sophisticated academic work, but also a prompt to critical self-reflection on the politics of doing academic work. --Kate Chedgzoy "The very structure of [Mohanty's] work--dialoguing with other women's texts, taking cognizance of material realities of women's lives, the ardent exposition of activist battles all over the world, and most important, an insistent and overwhelming honesty in declaring her own location and history--make this book a remarkable attempt at creating a common front for feminist struggles..." --Anjali Nerlaker, "XCP" "[A]n enterprising and exhaustive read for those interested in pursuing an understanding of the conditions affecting women in a global context. . . . Overall, this book is an excellent addition to the repository on feminist pedagogy and research on Third World women. I would recommend this book to scholars engaged on feminist epistemologies and especially to those pursuing comparative research on women in the Third World." --Seetha Veeraghanta, "Gender and Society" "[C]ompelling. . . . The book offers ins that will appeal to feminist scholars working in a variety of disciplines, and historians may be particularly appreciative of the author's attention to historical context and change-over-time. The collection would also be appropriate for graduate students in women's studies, feminist theory, or postcolonial studies who would benefit from having so many of Mohanty's writings collected in a single volume." --Malia Formes, "H-Net, H-Women" Review ------ “Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a transnational feminist practice today. She provides resources for feminist engagements with difference, identity politics, the commodification of knowledge, and globalization and its effects. Shifts in the global political and economic landscape as well as Mohanty's own shifting location enable her to identify exhilarating new directions for feminist theory and practice.”—Sandra Harding, coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society “Over the last two decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has produced an extraordinary body of writings on transnational feminism, radically changing the way we think about such categories as ‘third world women,’ ‘women of color’ and ‘globalization.’ This volume combines her now classic essays with new writings that accentuate the centrality of anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women's studies today.”—Angela Y. Davis "Chandra Talpade Mohanty is unequivocally one of the most important feminist theorists and scholars writing and publishing today. In this collection, her essays take on new meaning to play important parts in what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of the exploitation of women within neocolonial capitalism and an elaboration of antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist solidarity practices."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics ”The juxtaposition of these essays brings into sharp focus the theoretical framework Chandra Talpade Mohanty has developed and makes visible the enormity, the force, and the uniqueness of her contribution.”—Ruth Frankenberg, editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism