Professor of Women's Studies Chandra Talpade Mohanty is the author of a new book, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, published by Duke University Press (3/03). The book addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. According to the jacket: "Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and activism for nearly two decades. This collection highlights the concerns running throughout her pioneering work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders and the relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and social movements."
A review of the book by Sandra Harding, coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, says "Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a trandsnational feminist practice today. "
Mohanty is a member of the core faculty at the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati. She is coeditor of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures and Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.
