Gender epistemologies and Eurasian borderlands
By: Madina Tlostanova
Series: Comparative feminist studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230108424
Description: "In an important contribution to postcolonial, gender, and Eurasian ethnic studies, Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes, she finds, resist interpretation through the lenses of both Western feminist theory and woman of color feminism--hence, Tlostanova argues, Eurasian borderland feminism must chart a third path sensitive to the region's own unique past"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * PART I: From Third-World Feminism to Decolonial Gender Epistemologies * Between Third-World/Women of Color Feminism and Decolonial Feminism * Decolonial Feminism and the Decolonial Turn * PART II: Coloniality of Gender in the World of the Secondary Colonial Difference (Caucasus and Central Asia) * Race/Body/Gender and Coloniality in the Russian/Soviet Empire and its Colonies * Quasi-Scientific Racism and Gender in Russian and Soviet discourses * Dirt Fetish and Commodity Racism Soviet Way * Colonial Gender Tricksterism in Central Asia and Caucasus * PART III. Trans-Epistemic Dialogues and Contemporary Gender Discourses in Caucasus and Central Asia * Eurasian Borderlands in Dialogue with Mesoamerica * Two Dialogues * Conclusion: Why Cut the Feet in Order to Fit the Western Shoes? .