Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Biographical Information

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and Core Faculty at the Union Institute Graduate School, Cincinnati. Her work focuses on transnational feminist theory, cultural studies, and antiracist education, and has been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. She co-edited Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991), and Feminist Genealogies Colonial Legacies. Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997), and is currently working on a book entitled Feminism Without Borders: Multiculturalism. Globalization and the Politics of Liberation. She is a member of the editorial collective of Cultural Critique, of the national advisory board of Signs. A Journal Of Women in Culture and Societv, and of the British journal Gender. Place and Culture. A Journal of Feminist Geographv. Ms. Mohanty is a member of the Executive Board of Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, and of Awareness, Orissa, India. She edits a series of books on "Gender, Culture and Global Politics" for Garland Publishing of New York.

Bibliography

Feminism Without Borders Multiculturalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Liberation. (In progress)

EDITED BOOKS

Series Editor, "Gender, Culture and Global Politics," Garland Publishing, NY.

Volume 1, Interventions: Feminist Dialogues in Third World Women's Literature and Film, ed. by Bishnupriya Ghosh & Brinda Ghosh, 1997.

Volume 2 :Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Geertje Lycklama a Nijeholt, Virginia Vargas, and Saskia Wieringa, 1998.

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, co-edited with M. Jacqui Alexander, New York: Routledge, 1997.

Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, co-edited with Lourdes Torres and Ann Russo, Indiana University Press, 1991.

ARTICLES

"Critical Feminist Genealogies: On the Geography and Politics of Home and Nation," forthcoming in Ella Shohat, ed., The Age of Globalization, University of Massachusetts Press, 1998

"Preface: Dangerous Territories, Territorial Power and Education," in Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education, ed. by Linda Eyre and Leslie Roman, Routledge, 1997

"Genealogies, Legacies, Movements," Introduction to Feminist Genealogies. Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, coauthored with M. Jacqui Alexander, 1997, pp. xii xlii

"Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests and the Politics of Solidarity," in Feminist Genealogies. Colonial Legacies. Democratic Futures, 1997, pp 329

"Lives of Their Own," Critical Introduction to The Slate of Life, Stories by Indian Women, coauthored with Satya P. Mohanty, The Feminist Press, New York, 1995

"Survival is Not An Academic Skill," Introduction to How People Get Power. Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action, by Si Kahn, NASW Press, 1994

"Defining Genealogies: Feminist Reflections on being South Asian in North America," in Our Feet Walk the Sky, Writings by Women of the South Asian Diaspora, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1993.

"Cartographies of Struggle," Introduction to Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism , Indiana University Press, 1991

"On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s," Cultural Critique, No. 14, Winter 198990, special issue, "Gender and Modes of Social Division II," pp 179208.

"Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience" Copyright 1, special issue on Fin de Siecle 2000, Fall 1987, pp 3044.

"Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" Feminist Review 30, Autumn 1988, pp 6188.

"Aus westlicher Sicht: feministische Theorie und Koloniale Diskurse," beitrage: zur feministischen theorie und praxis 23, 1 Auflage 1988, pp 149 162.

"Feminist Politics: What's Home Got To Do With It?" coauthored with Biddy Martin, in Teresa de Lauretis ed. Feminist Studies/Critical Studies, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1986, pp 191212.

"On Salvaging Difference: The Politics of Black Women's Studies," Women's Studies International Forum, Special Issue: Women in Academe, Vol.6, No.2., 1983, pp 243248

"Early Childhood Education " coauthored with Lilian G. Katz, The International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies, Husen and Postlewaite (Eds.), Pergamon Press, London, England, 1985

"FollowUp Studies: Are They Worth the Trouble?," coauthored with L.G. Katz, J.Raths, A.Kurachi & J.Irving, Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. XXXII, No.2.,1981, pp 1824

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