Dislocating Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Uma Narayan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third
Dislocating China
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Dru C. Gladney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

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This book seeks to challenge the way in which China and Chinese-ness is generally understood, privileged on a central tradition, a core culture, that tends to m
Frontline Feminisms
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Marguerite Waller
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dislocating the Orient
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Daniel Foliard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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While the twentieth century’s conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itsel
The Invention of Women
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contructi