ABSTRACT
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:
Western feminists need to reconsider what they are out to learn from the distant places they visit. Instead of developing ever more theoretically sophisticated twists on the cross-cultural construction of gender, why not attend also to feminist voices from elsewhere?
