| Description |
vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Gender and society |
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Gender and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction: New Frontiers in Women's Studies / Mary Maynard and June Purvis -- Ch. 1. Challenging the Boundaries: Towards an Anti-racist Women's Studies / Mary Maynard -- Ch. 2. Anti-colonial Subjects? Post-colonial Subjects? Nationalisms, Ethnocentrisms and Feminist Scholarship / Joanna de Groot -- Ch. 3. What Happened to Feminist Politics in 'Gender Training'? / Bunie M. Matlanyane Sexwale -- Ch. 4. The Political and the Personal: Women's Writing in China in the 1980s / Delia Davin -- Ch. 5. Reassessing Representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Militant Feminists in Edwardian Britain: On the Importance of a Knowledge of our Feminist Past / June Purvis -- Ch. 6. Gender, Nation and Scholarship: Reflections on Gender/Women's Studies in the Czech Republic / Jitka Maleckova -- Ch. 7. Possibilities for Women's Studies in Post-communist Countries: Where are We Going? / Svetlana Kupryashkina |
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Ch. 8. Resituating Discourses of 'Whiteness' and 'Asianness' in Northern England: Second-generation Sikh Women and Constructions of Identity / Jasbir K. Puar -- Ch. 9. Women Who Move: Experiences of Diaspora / Magdalene Ang-Lygate -- Ch. 10. 'The Home of Our Mothers and Our Birthright for Ages'? Nation, Diaspora and Irish Women / Breda Gray -- Ch. 11. Boundary Politics: Women, Nationalism and Danger / Jan Jindy Pettman -- Ch. 12. Gender, Colonialism and Nationalism. Women Activists in Uttar Pradesh, India / Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert -- Ch. 13. East German Women Five Years after the Wende / Hanna Behrend |
| Analysis |
Women's studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women's studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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| Author |
Maynard, Mary, 1950-
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Purvis, June.
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| LC no. |
96010665 |
| ISBN |
074840287X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0748402888 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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