Full Description
The past two decades have seen the incursion of feminist thought into many academic areas. Within the academy, feminist approaches have gained some legitimacy and yet, simultaneous with these disciplinary advances, there have been charges of racism directed at feminist scholarship and practice. These charges have resulted in feminist work continuously reshaping itself.
This volume represents the strength as well as diversity of writings which discuss 'race' and feminism showing how these two areas, usually considered to be distinct and therefore discrete from each other, have developed. Feminism and Race includes articles spanning a number of disciplinary areas, such as history, literary analysis, sociology, and psychology and provides a history of how second wave feminisms have negotiated 'race' as well as suggesting what future directions these debates may take.
Contents
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; INTRODUCTION ; THE BASIS FOR THE DEBATES ; Challenging Imperial Feminism ; Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory ; Angry Women are Building ; Preface: Black Women in White America ; Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist ; Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought ; The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House ; La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness ; ENGAGING THE DEBATES ; 'Race', Gender, and the Concept of Difference in Feminist Thought ; Moving the Mountains, Making the Links ; The Persistence of Vision ; Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions ; 'Race', Identity and Cultural Criticism ; The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought ; The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Research Process ; 'Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something'. African-American Women's Historical Novels ; The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies ; U.S. Third World Feminism and Oppositional Consciousness ; Decolonising Feminism ; SHIFTING THE DEBATES ; Black Women's Employment and the British Economy ; Women, Migration, and the State ; People or Population ; Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran ; Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment ; Black (w)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality ; 'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism ; Environmental Action, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience ; Difference, Diversity, Differentiation ; Crosscurrents, Crosstalk ; Genealogies, Legacies, Movements ; Exploding the Canon ; INDEX
