ABSTRACT
Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other.
Borderlands in European Gender Studies narrows the gap between cultural analysis and social theory, addressing feminist theory’s epistemological foundations and its capacity to confront the legacies of colonialism and socialism. The contributions demonstrate the enduring worth of feminist concepts for critical analysis, conceptualize resistance to multiple forms of oppression, and identify the implications of the decoupling of cultural and social feminist critique for the analysis of gender relations in a postsocialist space.
This book will be of import to activists and researchers in women’s and gender studies, comparative gender politics and policy, political science, sociology, contemporary history, and European studies. It is suitable for use as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in a range of fields.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|149 pages
Bringing in the second Other
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
Not just another country case
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
A decolonial perspective
part II|30 pages
Conceiving scattered bodies
chapter Chapter 6|19 pages
Making babies and citizens
chapter Chapter 7|18 pages
Determined disidentifications
part III|68 pages
Citizenship intersected