Full Description
Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethinking Whiteness," "Redefining the 'Third World' Subject," "Sexuality and Sexual Rights," "Harem and the Veil," and "Gender and Post/colonial Relations." A bibliography complements the wide-ranging essays. This is the ideal volume for any reader interested in the development of postcoloniality and feminist thought.
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Section 1: Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalising Feminism 1.1 Audre Lorde: 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House' 1.2 Adrienne Rich: 'Notes Towards a Politics of Location' 1.3 Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis: 'The Uses of Fundamentalism' 1.4 Chandra Talpade Mohanty: 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses' 1.5 Chela Sandoval: 'US Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World Section 2: Rethinking Whiteness 2.1 Vron Ware: 'To Make the Facts Known: Racial Terror and the Construction of White Femininity' 2.2 Natalie Zemon Davis: 'Iroquois Women, European Women' 2.3 Jane Haggis: 'White Women and Colonialism: Towards a Non-Recuperative History' 2.4 Ien Ang:'I'm a Feminist but . : Other Women and Postnational Feminism' 2.5 bell hooks: 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators' 2.6 Hazel V. Carby: 'On the Threshold of Women's Era: Lynching, Empire and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory' Section 3: Redefining The 'Third World' Subject 3.1 Ania Loomba: 'Dead Women Tell No tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-colonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India' 3.2 Deniz Kandiyoti: 'End of Empire: Islam, Nationalism and Women in Turkey' 3.3 Kirin Narayan: 'How Native is a Native Anthropologist?' 3.4 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' 3.5 Rey Chow:'Where Have all the Natives Gone?' Section 4: Sexuality and Sexual Rights 4.1 Angela Davis: 'Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights' 4.2 Françoise Lionnet: 'Feminisms and Universalisms: Universal Rights and the Legal Debate Around the Practice of Female Excision in France' A 4.3 Aihwa Ong: 'State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies and the Body Politic in Malaysia' 4.4 Alison Murray: 'Debt-Bondage and Trafficking: Don't Believe the Hype' 4.5 Mrinalini Sinha: 'Reconfiguring Hierarchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84' 4.6 Joseph A. Boone: 'Vacation Cruises; or, The Homoerotics of Orientalism' Section 5: Harem and the Veil 5.1 Fatima Mernissi: 'The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries' 5.2 Sarah Graham-Brown: 'The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined: Private and Public Lives' 5.3 Reina Lewis: 'On Veiling, Vision and Voyage: Cross-cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity' 5.4 Meyda Yegenoglu: 'Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism' 5.5 Winifred Woodhull: 'Unveiling Algeria' 5.6 Fadwa El Guindi: 'Veiling Resistance' Section 6: Gender and Post/colonial Spatial Relations 6.1 Avtar Brah: 'Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities' 6.2 Anne McClintock: 'Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-Dressing and the Cult of Domesticity' 6.3 Jane M. Jacobs: 'Earth Honoring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges' 6.4 Sara Mills: 'Gender and Colonial Space' 6.5 Alison Blunt: 'Spatial Stories Under Siege: British Women Writing from Lucknow in 1857' Bibliography
