Feminist postcolonial theory : a reader /

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Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 754 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Feminism -- History. Feminist theory. Postcolonialism. Feminism. Feminist theory. Postcolonialism. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302292

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Other authors / contributors:	Lewis, Reina, 1963- editor. Mills, Sara, 1954- editor.
ISBN:	9781136785207 1136785205 9780203825235 0203825233 9780429238307 0429238304 9781136785153 1136785159 9781136785191 1136785191 0415942756 9780415942751 0415942748 9780415942744
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Notes:	Includes notes at chapter ends, bibliographical references (pages 739-746), and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This volume presents readers with a tripartite purpose: to nurture a discussion and a critical reading on hierarchical relations and on modes of oppression; to foster a fertile dialogue, where poetic word, academic discourses and activism respond to each other; to recall through this manifesto that complex theories such as feminism and postcolonial thought are often stimulated by political convictions. The desire to deconstruct, even to "decolonize," the main theoretical fields of both postcolonial and feminist theories, indeed traverses this volume, as shown by the diversity and the vigour of the 28 articles presented herein. Divided into six thematic chapters, Reina Lewis's and Sara Mills's volume aims, not at defining the complexity of feminist postcolonial theory, but at locating its struggles, tools, and fields of investigation, through various, and often major texts of feminist postcolonial thought.
Other form:	Print version: Feminist postcolonial theory. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415942756
Standard no.:	10.4324/9780203825235

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Gendering colonialism and postcolonialism/racialising feminism ; The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Audre Lorde
Notes towards a politics of location / Adrienne Rich
The uses of fundamentalism / Gita Sahgal, Nira Yuval-Davis
Under Western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty
US Third-World feminism : the theory and method of oppositional consciousness in the postmodern world / Chela Sandoval
Part 2. Rethinking whiteness ; To make the facts known : racial terror and the construction of white femininity / Vron Ware
Iroquois women, European women / Natalie Zemon Davis
White women and colonialism : towards a non-recuperative history / Jane Haggis
I'm a feminist but ... "Other" women and postnational feminism / Ien Ang
The oppositional gaze : Black female spectators / bell hooks
"On the threshold of woman's era" : lynching, empire and sexuality in Black feminist theory / Hazel V. Carby
Part 3. Redefining the 'Third World' subject ; Dead women tell no tales : issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India / Ania Loomba
End of empire : Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti
How native is a "native" anthropologist? / Kirin Narayan
Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Where have all the natives gone? / Rey Chow
Part 3. Sexuality and sexual rights ; Racism, birth control and reproductive rights / Angela Davis
Feminisms and universalisms : "universal rights" and the legal debate around the practice of female excision in France / Francoise Lionnet
State versus Islam : Malay families, women's bodies and the body politic in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong
Debt-bondage and trafficking : don't believe the hype / Alison Murray
Reconfiguring hierarchies : the Ilbert Bill controversy, 1883-84 / Mrinalini Sinha
Vacation cruises : or, the homoerotics of orientalism / Joseph A. Boone
Part 5. Harem and the veil ; The meaning of spatial boundaries / Fatima Mernissi
The seen, the unseen and the imagined : private and public lives / Sarah Graham-Brown
On veiling, vision and voyage : cross-cultural dressing and narratives of identity / Reina Lewis
Veiled fantasies : cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism / Meyda Yeǧenoǧlu
Unveiling Algeria / Winifred Woodhull
Veiling resistance / Fadwa El Guindi
Part 6. Gender and post/colonial spatial relations ; Diaspora, border and transnational identities / Avtar Brah
Imperial leather : race, cross-dressing and the cult of domesticity / Anne McClintock
Earth honoring : Western desires and indigenous knowledges / Jane M. Jacobs
Gender and colonial space / Sara Mills
Spatial stories under siege : British women writing from Lucknow in 1857 / Alison Blunt.

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