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1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction: Mannish Women and Gender After the Act; Part I Essentialism and Gendered Movements; 1. Gandhi and Feminized Nationalism in India; 2. Race/Class/Gender Ideology in Guatemala: Modern and Anti-Modern Forms; 3. Multiple Alterities: The Contouring of Gender in Miao and Chinese Nationalisms; 4. "Fit Citizens for the British Empire?": Class-ifying Racial and Gendered Subjects in "Godzone" (New Zealand); 5. A Race of Men, A Class of Women: Nation, Ethnicity, Gender, and Domesticity Among Afro-Guyanese |
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Part II "Wombs" o f Nationalist Respectability and the Problem of Patri-Racial Redemption6. "Feminism, the Murderer of Mothers": The Rise and Fall of Neo-nationalist Reconstruction of Gender in Hungary; 7. "And Your Prayers Shall Be Answered Through the Womb of a Woman": Insurgent Masculine Redemption and the Nation of Islam; 8. Boudoir Politics and the Birthing of the Nation: Sex, Marriage, and Structural Deflection in the National Black Independent Political Party; 9. "Business Story is Better Than Love": Gender, Economic Development, and Nationalist Ideology in Tanzania |
| Summary |
These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in Women Out of Place: the Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality investigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and |
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Notes on ContributorsIndex |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135234768 |
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1135234760 |
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