Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955) is a Distinguished Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology, and the Cultural Foundations of Education and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Mohanty, a postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist, has argued for the inclusion of a transnational approach in exploring women’s experiences across the world. She is author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003 and Zubaan Books, India, 2004; translated into Korean, 2005, Swedish, 2007, and Turkish, 2009, Japanese, 2012 and Italian, 2012), and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997), Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, (Zed Press, 2008), The Sage Handbook on Identities (coedited with Margaret Wetherell, 2010), and Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope (co-edited with Linda Carty, Haymarket Press, 2018).

Her work focuses on transnational feminist theory, anti-capitalist feminist praxis, anti-racist education, and the politics of knowledge. Central to Mohanty’s transnational mission is the project of building a "non-colonizing feminist solidarity across the borders," through an intersectional analysis of race, nation, colonialism, sexuality, class and gender.

Early life and education

Chandra Talpade Mohanty was born in 1955, in Mumbai, India.^{[citation needed]} She has spent time in Nigeria and London. She became a US citizen and continued her education in the United States.^[1]

Mohanty graduated in 1974 with honors and a

She is a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy,^[4] Center for Intersectional Justice,^[5] Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Transformations, The Journal of Inclusive Pedagogy and Scholarship, Feminist Africa (South Africa), Asian Women (Korea), Feminist Economics, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.^[6]

Overview of major works

She became known after the publication of her 1984 essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses",^[7] in which she states,

The relationship between 'Woman'—a cultural and ideological composite Other constructed through diverse representational discourses (scientific, literary, juridical, linguistic, cinematic, etc.)—and 'women'—real, material subjects of their collective histories—is one of the central questions the practice of feminist scholarship seeks to address."^[8]

In this essay, Mohanty critiques the political project of Western

In 2003, Mohanty released her book Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. In this work, she argues for a bridging of theory and praxis, and the personal and the political. Major themes addressed include the politics of difference, transnational solidarity building, and anticapitalist struggle against neoliberal globalization. As well as reprinting "Under Western Eyes", in the final section, "Reorienting Feminism", Mohanty offers a response to criticism of the essay, and "reiterates her belief in the possibility, indeed necessity, of building common political projects between Third World and Western feminisms".^[10]

Selected publications

• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade; Russo, Anne; and Lourdes M. Torres (1991). Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Indiana University Press, 338 pages.
  ISBN 978-0253206329
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade; and M. Jacqui Alexander (1996). Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, Routledge Press, 464 pages.
  ISBN 978-0415912112
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade (2003). Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity,
  ISBN 978-0822330219
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade; Riley, Robin L.; and Minnie Bruce Pratt (2008). Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, Zed Books, 280 pages.
  ISBN 978-1848130180
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade; Wetherell, M. (2010). Sage Handbook of Identities, U.K: Sage Publications.
  ISBN 978-1412934114
• Carty, Linda E. and Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, editors (2018). Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope Haymarket Books, 200 pages.
  ISBN 978-1608468973

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Postcolonial Feminism
• Postcolonialism

References

Further reading

• The book Carty, Linda E. and Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, editors (2018). Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope Haymarket Books, 200 pages.
  ISBN 978-1608468973
  is in part description and transcripts of selected interviews from the digital media site.

External links

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• Official website
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