Feminism's Futures: The Limits and Ambitions of Rokeya's Dream

What do feminists want? What visions of an ideal society have we conceptualised or dreamt of? What are the possibilities and limits of iterations of a feminist futurity? Even as we ask, however, we are brought up short by a more fundamental question: is such a teleological conception of any theory o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economic and political weekly 2015-10, Vol.50 (41), p.39-45
1. Verfasser: RAJAN, RAJESWARI SUNDER
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:What do feminists want? What visions of an ideal society have we conceptualised or dreamt of? What are the possibilities and limits of iterations of a feminist futurity? Even as we ask, however, we are brought up short by a more fundamental question: is such a teleological conception of any theory or social movement—however we define feminism—valid? Can we expect feminism to function with a single blueprint of an ideal political order or society "to come"?
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846