Research Catalog

Title

Feminist genealogies, colonial legacies, democratic futures / edited by M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander, M. Jacqui.
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-

Description

xlii, 422 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Thinking gender

Uniform Title

Thinking gender.

Subjects

• Feminism > Developing countries
• Women > Developing countries > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --
• 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.

ISBN

• 0415912113(cloth)
• 0415912121(pbk.)

LCCN

95036341

OCLC

• 33165799
• ocm33165799

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries