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Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands / by M. Tlostanova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tlostanova, M. V. (Madina Vladimirovna)
- Series:
- Comparative Feminist Studies, 2752-3217
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology.
- Sociology.
- Political sociology.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Political Sociology.
- Epistemology.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Anthropology.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Sociology.
- Political Sociology.
- Epistemology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses of Western feminist theory and woman of color feminism, hence Eurasian borderland feminism must chart a third path.
- Contents:
- From third-world feminism to decolonial gender epistemologies
- Between third-world/women of color feminism and decolonial feminism
- Decolonial feminism and the decolonial turn
- 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
- 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?.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612993060
- 9781282993068
- 1282993062
- 9780230113923
- 0230113923
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