Authors: M. Jacqui Alexander (Editor), Chandra Mohanty (Editor), Chandra Talpade Mohanty
ISBN-13: 9780415912129, ISBN-10: 0415912121
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: November 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, charts the underlying theoretical perspectives and organization practices of the different varieties of feminism that take on questions of colonialism, imperialism, and the repressive rule of colonial, post-colonial and advanced capitalist nation-states. It provides a comparative, relational, historically grounded conception of feminist praxis that differs markedly from the liberal pluralist, multicultural understanding that sheapes some of the dominant version of Euro-American feminism. As a whole, the collection poses a unique challenge to the naturalization of gender based in the experiences, histories and practices of Euro-American women.
Preface | ||
Introduction: Genealogies, Legacies, Movements | ||
1 | Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity | 3 |
2 | "A Great Way to Fly": Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism | 30 |
3 | Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa | 46 |
4 | Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy | 63 |
5 | Civil Rights versus Sovereignty: Native American Women in Life and Land Struggles | 101 |
6 | Postmodernism, "Realism," and the Politics of Identity: Cherrie Moraga and Chicana Feminism | 125 |
7 | Probing "Morality" and State Violence: Feminist Values and Communicative Interaction in Prison Testimonios in India and Argentina | 151 |
8 | Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence | 170 |
9 | Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema | 183 |
10 | Ring Ding in a Tight Corner: Sistren, Collective Democracy, and the Organization of Cultural Production | 213 |
11 | Looking at Ourselves: The Women's Movement in Hyderabad | 259 |
12 | The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN) | 280 |
13 | The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community | 308 |
14 | One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency | 330 |
Notes | 353 | |
Contributors | 401 | |
Index | 405 |