| Description |
xlii, 422 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Thinking gender |
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Thinking gender.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Genealogies, Legacies, Movements / M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 1. Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 2. "A Great Way to Fly": Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism / Geraldine Heng -- 3. Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa / Amina Mama -- 4. Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy / M. Jacqui Alexander -- 5. Civil Rights versus Sovereignty: Native American Women in Life and Land Struggles / Marie Anna Jaimes Guerrero -- 6. Postmodernism, "Realism," and the Politics of Identity: Cherrie Moraga and Chicana Feminism / Paula M. L. Moya |
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7. Probing "Morality" and State Violence: Feminist Values and Communicative Interaction in Prison Testimonios in India and Argentina / Kavita Panjabi -- 8. Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence / Evelynn M. Hammonds -- 9. Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- 10. Ring Ding in a Tight Corner: Sistren, Collective Democracy, and the Organization of Cultural Production / Honor Ford-Smith -- 11. Looking at Ourselves: The Women's Movement in Hyderabad / Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran -- 12. The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN) / Ayesha M. Imam -- 13. The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community / Anannya Bhattacharjee -- 14. One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency / Gloria Wekker |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-403) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Developing countries.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Alexander, M. Jacqui.
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Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-
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| LC no. |
95036341 |
| ISBN |
0415912113 (cloth) |
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0415912121 (paperback) |
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9780415912129 (paperback) |
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