Full Description
This collection of essays examines the relationship of women of color's armed resistance to their aesthetic struggles, tension and transformation in feminist practice, and the impact of the gender-based design of state-sponsored terror, human rights debates, and the economic development for women of color.
Athey brings together new scholarship testing the possibility of transnational feminist action and theorizing historical and contemporary aspects of resistance for women of color. Included are essays by and about women of Africa, India, and the Americas, including women of African American, Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Yaqui origins. Essays examine regional and historical contexts to demonstrate the central role of women of color in armed resistance struggle and in sustaining cultures of resistance, despite the fact that the agency, speech, and writing of women of color have received the least attention in studies of resistance.
Contributors challenge thinking across many disciplines: sociology, literary and cultural studies, history, political science, and education. Resistance struggles examined include women in armed struggle for national self-determination, political and economic struggle for human rights and against state-sponsored repression; and women sustaining political and cultural resistance against specific religious, feminist, or nationalist doctrines, and against the repression of multiple forms of political, sexual, intellectual, and artistic expression.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Sharp Practice by Stephanie Athey Documenting the Political and Historical Context of Women's Resistance Women, Human Rights, and Development by Winston E. Langley An African Vantage Point on Feminist Research: Contemporary Eritrean Women and Revolution by Asgedet Stefanos Subaltern Studies and Female Militancy: The Case of Preetilata Wadedar by Betty Joseph Between Silence and Sanction: Yaqui Diaspora by Michelle Grijalva Black Women and American Slavery: Forms of Resistance by Sandra M. Grayson Tension and Transformation in Feminist Practice Variations on a Theme: Four Voices in Contemporry Chicana Feminist Critiism by Michelle Joffroy Deadly Desires: Cinema, Seduction, and Racialized Masculinity by Daniel Cooper Alarcon Artistic Practice as Political Strategy The "Sharpened Edge" of Audre Lorde: Visions and Re-visions of Community, Power, and Language by Maureen C. Heacock Ana Lydia Vega: Linguistic Women and Another Counter-Assault or Can the Master(s) Hear? by David J. Labiosa Positioned for Resistance: Identity and Action in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise by Mary Pollock Selected Bibliography Index
