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Informed by practices of women's activism in India, this book proposes a feminist social justice framework to address the wide range of issues women face globally, including economic exploitation, sexist oppression, racial, ethnic, and caste oppression, and cultural imperialism. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book argues that current frameworks for global justice, such as human rights, need to be supplemented by a relational framework that includes resistance to economic exploitation and social oppression.

What does it mean to decolonize transnational feminist theory in the context of globalization? As a project concerned with multiple power structures, feminist theory must address the historical legacies of colonialism, postcolonialism, and more recently, decoloniality. This book offers essays organized around a coherent set of research questions about how to conceptualize an inclusive feminist politics. This has been, and continues to be, a central project in feminist theory, particularly in light of neoliberal globalization

Intro -- FEMINISM, FOUCAULT, AND EMBODIED SUBJECTIVITY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE FEMINISM AND FOUCAULT DEBATE: STAKES, ISSUES, POSITIONS -- 2. FOUCAULT, FEMINISM, AND NORMS -- POSTMODERNISM AND POLITICS -- FEMINIST CRITICS -- GENEALOGY AS CRITIQUE -- PROBLEMS WITH POWER -- FOUCAULT'S SKEPTICISM -- CONCLUSION: FOUCAULT AND FEMINIST RESISTANCE -- 3. FOUCAULT AND THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM -- FEMINIST CRITICS -- FOUCAULT'S CHALLENGE TO SUBJECTIVITY -- FOUCAULT'S REFUSAL -- FOUCAULT'S GENEALOGY OF THE SUBJECT -- AESTHETICS OF EXISTENCE: LIFE AS A WORK OF ART -- THE RELATIONAL FEMINIST SUBJECT -- CONCLUSION -- 4. FOUCAULT AND THE BODY: A FEMINIST REAPPRAISAL -- FOUCAULT'S BODY -- FEMINIST EXTENDERS: DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES AND THE FEMININE BODY -- A FOUCAULDIAN FEMINIST CRITICISM OF FOUCAULT'S BODY -- FEMINIST RESISTANCE TO THE DEPLOYMENT OF SEXUALITY -- CONCLUSION -- 5. IDENTITY POLITICS: SEX, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY -- IDENTITY POLITICS -- FOUCAULT ON IDENTITY -- POSTMODERN CRITICISMS OF IDENTITY POLITICS -- HERCULINE BARBIN AND THE SEXED BODY -- BISEXUALITY: IDENTITY AND POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- 6. PRACTICES OF THE SELF: FROM SELF-TRANSFORMATION TO SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION -- FOUCAULT'S TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF -- SELF-WRITING -- PARRHESIA (TRUTH TELLING) -- CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING -- CONCLUSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The classical liberal theories of rights overemphasize individual autonomy. Feminists from a variety of approaches criticize this individualistic model. Other feminists argue that rights discourse is essential to help end discrimination against women. However, these proponents of international women's rights too often focus on legal and political rights at the expense of economic rights. In a global context it is important to recognize the interconnections between different kinds of rights. A case study of the cooperative organization Marketplace/SHARE illustrates the importance of economic empowerment to the overall goal of advancing the cause of women's rights and equality.

Abstract: The reproductive justice framework shifted understandings and analyses of reproductive oppression beyond individual 'choice' by incorporating analyses of structural injustice, racism, and social and economic concerns. In this article, we build on understandings of the reproductive justice framework by integrating a postcolonial lens and bring the powerful conceptual tools of postcolonial feminist theory to bear on issues of reproductive oppression in India. We articulate the elements of such a postcolonial lens—the transnational operation of race, Orientalism, the subjective experience of colonialism as well as the role of the nation-state and nationalism in shaping reproductive lives—and demonstrate how these elements, along with religion, caste, and right-wing Hindu fundamentalism, structure reproductive oppression in India. Through our discussion of the issues of sterilization, sex-selective abortion, and commercial surrogacy in India we reveal how the underlying coloniality of Malthusian ideas of controlling population to reduce poverty, Orientalist and racist tropes of moral and intellectual inferiority and sexual licentiousness, and the Orientalist and colonial framing of the "East" as backward, uncivilized, and dependent clearly shape reproductive issues in India. Offering a nuanced analysis of the heterogeneity of reproductive oppression within India, our discussion brings reproductive justice into conversation with a feminist postcolonial perspective to foreground the continued impact of colonialism, neo-colonialism, and settler colonialism on reproductive oppression.