Marianne DeKoven (ed.)
Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice
Rutgers University Press, 2005

Contemporary feminist scholarship has done much to challenge the many binary constructions at the heart of Western culture: white/nonwhite, theory/practice, and, most notably, masculine/feminine. Feminist criticism has reshaped these conceptions by breaking them apart and reconfiguring them into intersecting, relational fields of difference. The contributors to this collection look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of post-modernity.

In the first part of this book, current feminist theory is assessed for possible future directions. Part two focuses primarily on political issues and part three on questions of the body. Topics include feminist success versus social backlash, global women's human rights, postcolonial feminism, the politics of reproduction, and narratives of women's aging in postmodern culture.