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Social Science Women's Studies

Gender, Race, and Nation

A Global Perspective

by (author) Vanaja Dhruvarajan & Jill Vickers

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2002
Category
Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802084736
    Publish Date
    Jun 2002
    List Price
    $58.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802036360
    Publish Date
    Jun 2002
    List Price
    $86.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442675193
    Publish Date
    May 2002
    List Price
    $105.00

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The terms 'Woman' and 'Women' have been the organizing concepts for feminist politics and scholarship on women in western countries for several centuries. 'Women', it was assumed, shared characteristics based on biology and experiences of subordination; other aspects of their lives, such as language, national or ethnic identity, 'race', or sexual orientation were considered secondary to the identity of woman-ness. In this work, Dhruvarajan and Vickers call into question feminism's presumed universality of gender analysis, and bring to the foreground the voices of marginalized women in Western society, and of women outside of the western world.

Gender, Race, and Nation discusses opening scholarship to the experiences of women in all of their diversity, making links between the differences in local contexts and global contexts, and relating to other women with the understanding of each woman's relative position in terms of power and privilege to facilitate coalition building and develop strategies to address issues of common concern to usher in a just and caring world for all. This change in perspective presented by Dhruvarajan and Vickers represents a paradigm shift in the study of women and women's issues, and forges a new approach to women's studies/scholarship on women, women' s movements, and global social transformation.

About the authors

Dr. Vanaja Dhruvarajan is an adjunct professor at Carleton University, Canada who has done research, and written a number of books and articles on racialized women.

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Jill Vickers is Distinguished Research Professor and Emeritus Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.

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