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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798845503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-252-09883-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Dissident Feminisms

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism - Political aspects

Solidarity

Female friendship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself - whether national, gender, racial, political or imperial - are rearticulated through friendship. Here, Elora 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.