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Feminist Politics: What’s Home Got to Do with It?

Martin, Biddy, Mohanty, Chandra Talpade·1986·Feminist Studies/Critical Studies
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-18997-7_12
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We began working on this project after visiting our respective “homes” in Lynchburg, Virginia and Bombay, India in the fall of 1984—visits fraught with conflict, loss, memories, and desires we both considered to be of central importance in thinking about our relationship to feminist politics. In spite of significant differences in our personal histories and academic backgrounds, and the displacements we both experience, the political and intellectual positions we share made it possible for us to work on, indeed to write, this essay together. Our separate readings of Minnie Bruce Pratt’s autobiographical narrative entitled “Identity: Skin Blood Heart” became the occasion for thinking through and developing more precisely some of the ideas about feminist theory and politics that have occupied us. We are interested in the configuration of home, identity, and community; more specifically, in the power and appeal of “home” as a concept and a desire, its occurrence as metaphor in feminist writings, and its challenging presence in the rhetoric of the New Right. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Authors
Martin, B., & Mohanty, C. T.
Venue
Feminist Studies/Critical Studies
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
1986
Pages
191-212
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-18997-7_12
OpenAlex
W2490066011
Cited by
350
References
18
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 4
FWCI
20.29
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
Keywords
feminist politics, home, identity, community, displacement, New Right, feminist theory, metaphor, Lynchburg, Virginia

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