Uma Narayan

Uma Narayan

Uma Narayan (born 16 April 1958) is a feminist scholar. She is the author of "Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism" in which Narayan disputes feminism as a solely Western notion, while challenging assumptions that East Indian feminism is based on Western models. Additionally, Narayan holds that the charges of what constitutes "Westernization" need to be radically re-examined. Narayan coedited "Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives" with Mary L. Shanley, "Having and Raising Children" with Julia Bartkowiak and "Decentering the Center: Postcolonial and Feminist Challenges to Philosophy" with Sandra Harding. She currently is a professor at Vassar College on the Andrew C. Mellon Chair of Humanities.

Narayan received her B.A. in Philosophy from Bombay University and her M.A. in Philosophy from Poona University, India. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1990.

ources

* [http://philosophy.vassar.edu/faculty/bio_narayan.html Vassar Biography]
* [http://www.rambles.net/narayan_disloc97.html Rambles cultural arts magazine]

ee also

* Postcolonial feminism
* Transnational feminism


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