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Dissident friendships, feminism, imperialism, and transnational solidarity, edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

index present

non fiction

Dissident friendships

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946255005

edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose

Dissident feminisms

feminism, imperialism, and transnational solidarity

Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship's complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships. Contributors: Lori E. Amy, Azza Basarudin, Himika Bhattacharya, Kabita Chakma, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Laurie R. Cohen, Esha Niyogi De, Eglantina Gjermeni, Glen Hill, Alka Kurian, Meredith Madden, Angie Mejia, Chandra T. Mohanty, A. Wendy Nastasi, Nicole Nguyen, Liz Philipose, Anya Stanger, Shreerekha Subramanian, and Yuanfang Dai. --, Provided by publisher

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Praxis of friendship -- Epistemic friendships : collective knowledge making through transnational feminist praxis / Nicole Nguyen, A. Wendy Nastasi, Angie Mejia, Anya Stanger, Meredith Madden ; (Postscript by Chandra Talpade Mohanty) -- Meditations on friendship : politics of feminist solidarities in ethnography / Azza Basarudin and Himika Bhattacharya -- Gender, nation, solidarity -- Bridging the divide in feminism with transcultural feminist solidarity : using the example of forging friendship and solidarity between Chinese and U.S. women / Yuanfang Dai -- For sister or state? : nationalism and the indigenous and Bengali women's movements in Bangladesh / Kabita Chakma and Glen Hill -- Solidarity through dissidence : violence and community in Indian cinema / Alka Kurian -- Neoliberalism, agency, friendship -- Kinship drives, friendly affect : difference and dissidence in new Indian border cinema / Esha Niyogi De -- The space between us : reading Umrigar and Sangari in the quest for female friendship / Elora Halim Chowdhury -- Who are "we" in the novel? / Shreerekha Subramanian -- Friendship across borders -- A spirit of solidarity : transatlantic friendships among early twentieth-century female peace activists (Wilpfers) / Laurie R. Cohen -- The dissidence of daily life : feminist friendships and the social fabric of democracy / Lori E. Amy and Eglantina Gjermeni -- Contributors -- Index