Re-orienting Western Feminisms Women's Diversity in a Postcolonial World [Hardcover]

This 1998 book is an incisive exploration of how the experiences of 'women of colour' contest Anglophone feminism.What does feminism mean to the women of rural India, young Thai sex workers, or Filipino maids in Hong Kong? Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of 'women of colour'. She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contests the issues which preoccupy contemporary Anglophone feminists.What does feminism mean to the women of rural India, young Thai sex workers, or Filipino maids in Hong Kong? Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of 'women of colour'. She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contests the issues which preoccupy contemporary Anglophone feminists.What does feminism mean to the women of rural India, young Thai sex workers, or Filipino maids in Hong Kong? Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, Western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of women of color. She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contests the issues that preoccupy contemporary Anglophone feminists.Introduction; 1. Fracturing binarisms: first and third worlds; 2. Individual versus community; 3. Mothers and wives; 4. Sexual identities - western imperialism?; 5. The international traffic in women; Conclusion. ...the explosion of postcolonial and lc€