Serene Khader: Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic

Abstract

"Develops a genuinely anti-imperialist feminism. Against relativism/universalism debates that ask feminists to either reject normativity or reduce feminism to a Western conceit, Khader's nonideal universalism rediscovers the normative core of feminism in opposition to sexist oppression and reimagines the role of moral ideals in transnational feminist praxis"-- Introduction: Imperialism in the name of feminism -- Toward a decolonial feminist universalism -- Individualism : beyond Okin's ultimatum -- Autonomy and the secular : do Muslim women need freedom? -- Gender-role eliminativism : complementarian challenges to feminism -- Gender role eliminativism : feminized power and the public dismissing "other" women's power.