Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands

By Madina Tlostanova

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349291226
• ISBN13: 9781349291229
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"