Uma Narayan
Biographic Data
| ID | 645356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uma Narayan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uma |
| FAMILY NAME | Narayan |
| SIGNATURE | NARAYAN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 653 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“Westernization”, Respect for Cultures and Third-World Feminists
To try to define oneself intellectually and politically as a Third World feminist is not an easy task. It is an unsettled and unsettling identity, but is also an identity that often feels forced to give an account of itself. Many feminists from Third World contexts confront voices that are eager to convert any feminist criticism they make of their culture into a mere symptom of their “lack of respect for their culture,” rooted in the “Westernizat…
The Constituent Assembly of India: Recollecting Contributions of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, the Constitutional Adviser
Before recollecting the contributions of Sir B.N. Rau in articulating of the Constitution of India, it is necessary to know about the evolution of concept of Constituent Assembly, formation of Indian Constituent Assembly and initiatives taken by its members to include the best features of some Constitutions of the World for the benefit of Indian people
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural under…
Global Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women: A Discussion of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a powerful journalistic account of the oppression of women worldwide, and of the ways that some women and men have struggle against this oppression and discovered new forms of economic empowerment. The book—in its eleventh printing in less than a year, and with testimonials from the likes of Angelina Jolie and George Clooney—is also a publishing sensation. Half the Sky bring…
Basic Indian Legal Literature for Foreign Legal Professionals
Among Asian Nations, India has become a major political, cultural and business hub. This situation has contributed to frequent interaction of foreign governments, foreign nationals and businesspersons with India and Indians. In order to make them aware of the Indian Legal System and Literatures - so that they act within scope of the system - I present here a brief article giving an introduction to Indian legal literature and legal sources.Two ear…
Th Annual Course in International Law Librarianship: Global Challenges & the Indian Legal
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Transgressing rights: La Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty / Exploring collaborations: Heterodox economics and an economic social rights framework / Workers in the informal sector: Special cha…
The notion of rights is a powerful one, but the channels through which they have been promoted and enforced since World War II have militated against the more radical promise of rights. These explorations examine the question of economic rights with an international focus. The contributions touch on such diverse topics as the international peasant federation called La Vía Campesina, heterodox and social economic analyses, and the informal sector.…
Feminist Scholarship and the Internationalization of Women's Studies
Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World
Highlights how contemporary philosophy is being transformed by postcolonial and multicultural feminism
Undoing the "Package Picture" of Cultures
Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which culture poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural underst…
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” a…
Introduction. Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part I)
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Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part II)
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Introduction. Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part I)
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Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” a…
Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part II)
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Dislocating cultures: Identities, traditions, and Third-World feminism
Male-Order” Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law
It criticizes elements of current U.S. immigration policy that are detrimental to the welfare of battered immigrant women, and argues for changes that would make immigration policy more sensitive to their plight
Colonialism and Its Others: Considerations On Rights and Care Discourses
I point to a colonial care discourse that enabled colonizers to define themselves in relationship to "inferior" colonized subjects. The colonized, however, had very different accounts of this relationship. While contemporary care discourse correctly insists on acknowledging human needs and relationships, it needs to worry about who defines these often contested terms. I conclude that improvements along dimensions of care and of justice often prov…
Eating cultures: Incorporation, identity and Indian food
Linking the colonial British ‘fabrication’ of curry powder to the colonial fabrication of India, this paper explores the connections between colonial attitudes to India and to Indian food. The paper then looks at the links between food norms, and religious and political animosities in contemporary India. It then proceeds to use food to think about the place of the Indian community in contemporary England, and about the problematic roles assigned …
Feminism/Postmodernism
Working Together Across Difference: Some Considerations on Emotions and Political Practice
Uma Narayan attempts to clarify what the feminist notion of the ‘epistemic privilege of the oppressed’ does and does not imply. She argues that the fact that oppressed ‘insiders’ have epistemic privilege regarding their oppression creates problems in dialogue with and coalitionary politics involving ‘outsiders’ who do not share the oppression, since the latter fail to come to terms with the epistemic privilege of the insiders. She concretely anal…
Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which culture poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural underst…
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural under…
Colonialism and Its Others: Considerations On Rights and Care Discourses
I point to a colonial care discourse that enabled colonizers to define themselves in relationship to "inferior" colonized subjects. The colonized, however, had very different accounts of this relationship. While contemporary care discourse correctly insists on acknowledging human needs and relationships, it needs to worry about who defines these often contested terms. I conclude that improvements along dimensions of care and of justice often prov…
Working Together Across Difference: Some Considerations on Emotions and Political Practice
Uma Narayan attempts to clarify what the feminist notion of the ‘epistemic privilege of the oppressed’ does and does not imply. She argues that the fact that oppressed ‘insiders’ have epistemic privilege regarding their oppression creates problems in dialogue with and coalitionary politics involving ‘outsiders’ who do not share the oppression, since the latter fail to come to terms with the epistemic privilege of the insiders. She concretely anal…
Male-Order” Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law
It criticizes elements of current U.S. immigration policy that are detrimental to the welfare of battered immigrant women, and argues for changes that would make immigration policy more sensitive to their plight
Eating cultures: Incorporation, identity and Indian food
Linking the colonial British ‘fabrication’ of curry powder to the colonial fabrication of India, this paper explores the connections between colonial attitudes to India and to Indian food. The paper then looks at the links between food norms, and religious and political animosities in contemporary India. It then proceeds to use food to think about the place of the Indian community in contemporary England, and about the problematic roles assigned …
Transgressing rights: La Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty / Exploring collaborations: Heterodox economics and an economic social rights framework / Workers in the informal sector: Special cha…
The notion of rights is a powerful one, but the channels through which they have been promoted and enforced since World War II have militated against the more radical promise of rights. These explorations examine the question of economic rights with an international focus. The contributions touch on such diverse topics as the international peasant federation called La Vía Campesina, heterodox and social economic analyses, and the informal sector.…
Global Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women: A Discussion of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a powerful journalistic account of the oppression of women worldwide, and of the ways that some women and men have struggle against this oppression and discovered new forms of economic empowerment. The book—in its eleventh printing in less than a year, and with testimonials from the likes of Angelina Jolie and George Clooney—is also a publishing sensation. Half the Sky bring…
Feminist Scholarship and the Internationalization of Women's Studies
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” a…
Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part II)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Working Together Across Difference: Some Considerations on Emotions and Political Practice
Uma Narayan attempts to clarify what the feminist notion of the ‘epistemic privilege of the oppressed’ does and does not imply. She argues that the fact that oppressed ‘insiders’ have epistemic privilege regarding their oppression creates problems in dialogue with and coalitionary politics involving ‘outsiders’ who do not share the oppression, since the latter fail to come to terms with the epistemic privilege of the insiders. She concretely anal…
Feminism/Postmodernism
Male-Order” Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law
It criticizes elements of current U.S. immigration policy that are detrimental to the welfare of battered immigrant women, and argues for changes that would make immigration policy more sensitive to their plight
Colonialism and Its Others: Considerations On Rights and Care Discourses
I point to a colonial care discourse that enabled colonizers to define themselves in relationship to "inferior" colonized subjects. The colonized, however, had very different accounts of this relationship. While contemporary care discourse correctly insists on acknowledging human needs and relationships, it needs to worry about who defines these often contested terms. I conclude that improvements along dimensions of care and of justice often prov…
Eating cultures: Incorporation, identity and Indian food
Linking the colonial British ‘fabrication’ of curry powder to the colonial fabrication of India, this paper explores the connections between colonial attitudes to India and to Indian food. The paper then looks at the links between food norms, and religious and political animosities in contemporary India. It then proceeds to use food to think about the place of the Indian community in contemporary England, and about the problematic roles assigned …
Dislocating cultures: Identities, traditions, and Third-World feminism
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” a…
Introduction. Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part I)
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Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part II)
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Introduction. Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part I)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism
Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” a…
Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part II)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World
Highlights how contemporary philosophy is being transformed by postcolonial and multicultural feminism
Undoing the "Package Picture" of Cultures
Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which culture poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural underst…
Feminist Scholarship and the Internationalization of Women's Studies
Transgressing rights: La Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty / Exploring collaborations: Heterodox economics and an economic social rights framework / Workers in the informal sector: Special cha…
The notion of rights is a powerful one, but the channels through which they have been promoted and enforced since World War II have militated against the more radical promise of rights. These explorations examine the question of economic rights with an international focus. The contributions touch on such diverse topics as the international peasant federation called La Vía Campesina, heterodox and social economic analyses, and the informal sector.…
Th Annual Course in International Law Librarianship: Global Challenges & the Indian Legal
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Basic Indian Legal Literature for Foreign Legal Professionals
Among Asian Nations, India has become a major political, cultural and business hub. This situation has contributed to frequent interaction of foreign governments, foreign nationals and businesspersons with India and Indians. In order to make them aware of the Indian Legal System and Literatures - so that they act within scope of the system - I present here a brief article giving an introduction to Indian legal literature and legal sources.Two ear…
Global Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women: A Discussion of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a powerful journalistic account of the oppression of women worldwide, and of the ways that some women and men have struggle against this oppression and discovered new forms of economic empowerment. The book—in its eleventh printing in less than a year, and with testimonials from the likes of Angelina Jolie and George Clooney—is also a publishing sensation. Half the Sky bring…
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural under…
The Constituent Assembly of India: Recollecting Contributions of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, the Constitutional Adviser
Before recollecting the contributions of Sir B.N. Rau in articulating of the Constitution of India, it is necessary to know about the evolution of concept of Constituent Assembly, formation of Indian Constituent Assembly and initiatives taken by its members to include the best features of some Constitutions of the World for the benefit of Indian people
“Westernization”, Respect for Cultures and Third-World Feminists
To try to define oneself intellectually and politically as a Third World feminist is not an easy task. It is an unsettled and unsettling identity, but is also an identity that often feels forced to give an account of itself. Many feminists from Third World contexts confront voices that are eager to convert any feminist criticism they make of their culture into a mere symptom of their “lack of respect for their culture,” rooted in the “Westernizat…
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · Multiculturalism (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)