Against Purity
Subtitle: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 2, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415215879
First sentence: Returning home to India after several years studying feminist theory in the US, feminist scholar Mary John ends her 1996 book with a call for Western feminists to see the East as something more than an object of their inquiries: