乌玛·纳拉扬
文化不是固定的本质——印度女性的问题既不简单地是传统的，也不是从西方输入的。
定位
在瓦萨学院任教的印度裔哲学家：《错置文化》表明，西方女性主义者与第三世界民族主义者都把“文化”冻结成本质——印度女性的问题既不单纯是传统的，也不单纯是外来的。
核心思想
- 对文化本质主义的批判
- 第三世界女性主义
- 殖民主义与“西方化”
影响
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桑德拉·哈丁
受其影响
Narayan co-edited with Harding a collection that carried feminist epistemology and philosophy into postcolonial and multicultural perspectives (Decentering the Center, 2000). U. Narayan and S. Harding (eds.), Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World (2000)
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桑德拉·哈丁 › 1935–2025
作品
认同、传统与第三世界女性主义：反对女性主义是西方舶来品的看法，也反对用“文化”来解释印度女性的生活。
立场
“Dislocating Cultures” argues against the picture, shared by Western observers and Third-World nationalists, in which “culture” explains the lives of women in India. Nationalists defend practices such as dowry or sati as tradition, forgetting that these are often colonial-era constructions; Western feminists treat “death by culture” as the fate of Indian women while explaining domestic violence at home sociologically. Narayan points out that feminism in India arose from Indian women’s own experience, not as a Western import, and that charges of “Westernisation” are used to silence them. She argues for a feminism that takes material and political conditions, rather than culture, as its starting point.
生平与背景
Uma Narayan (born 1958) grew up in Bombay, studied philosophy at Bombay University and Poona and took her doctorate at Rutgers University in 1990. She has taught at Vassar College since then, where she is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities. With Sandra Harding she co-edited “Decentering the Center”, a collection on feminist philosophy from a postcolonial and multicultural perspective, and she has written on cultural relativism, human rights and the ethics of care.
其他主要作品
- Decentering the Center (ed. with Sandra Harding, 2000)
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