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Indiana University Press Decentering the Center by Edited by Uma Narayan Edited by Sandra Harding
The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural global and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural global and postcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience human rights the origins of philosophic issues philosophic uses of metaphors of the family white antiracism human progress scientific progress modernity the unity of scientific method the desirability of universal knowledge claims and other ideas central to philosophy.show more