Mappings : feminism and the cultural geographies of encounter /

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Author / Creator:Friedman, Susan Stanford.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 314 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155869
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ISBN:9781400822577
1400822572
1400811678
9781400811670
0691058032
0691058040
9780691058030
9780691058047
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
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Summary:In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geo.
Other form:Print version: Friedman, Susan Stanford. Mappings. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998