Uma Narayan is a feminist scholar. She is the author of Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism in which Narayan disputes feminism as a solely Western notion, while challenging assumptions that East Indian feminism is based on Western models. Additionally, Narayan holds that the charges of what constitutes "Westernization" need to be radically re-examined. Narayan coedited Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives with Mary L. Shanley, Having and Raising Children with Julia Bartkowiak and Decentering the Center: Postcolonial and Feminist Challenges to Philosophy with Sandra Harding. She currently teaches at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Narayan received her B.A. in Philosophy from Bombay University and her M.A. in Philosophy from Poona University, India. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1990.

Sources

• Vassar Biography
• Rambles cultural arts magazine

See also

• Postcolonial feminism
• Transnational feminism