Transitions, environments, translations
Subtitle: feminisms in international politics
By: edited by Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, Debra Keates.
Contributors: Scott, Joan Wallach.; Kaplan, Cora.; Keates, Debra.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Feminism -- Congresses
Description: The essays in Transitions, Environments, Translations explore the varied meanings of feminism in different political, cultural, and historical contexts. They respond to the claim that feminism is Western in origin and universalist in theory, and to the assumption that feminist goals are self-evident and the same in all contexts. Rather than assume that there is a blueprint by which to measure the strength or success of feminism in different parts of the world, these essays consider feminism to be a site of local, national and international conflict. They ask: What is at stake in various political efforts by women in different parts of the world? What meanings have women given to their efforts? What has been their relationship to feminism--as a concept and as an international movement? What happens when feminist ideas are translated from one language, one political context, to another?--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Revised papers from a conference held April 1995 at Rutgers University.