Feminism and antiracism : international struggles for justice /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2001.
Description:xxi, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4508011
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Other authors / contributors:Blee, Kathleen M.
ISBN:0814798543 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814798551 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Feminist Antiracist Maps: Transnational Contours
  • Part I. Feminist Spaces, Antiracist Maps
  • 1. Making Space for Antiracist Feminism in Northern Italy
  • 2. Resisting Domestic Violence and Caste Inequality: All-Women Courts in India
  • 3. Exotic Dancing and Unionizing: The Challenges of Feminist and Antiracist Organizing at the Lusty Lady Theater
  • 4. Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen
  • Part II. Feminist Talk, Antiracist Dialogues
  • 5. Danger Talk: Race and Feminist Empowerment in the New South Africa
  • 6. From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: Dilemmas in Antiracist Activism in California
  • 7. Between the Covers: Feminist, Antiracist, and Queer Performance Art in Australia
  • 8. Feminism, Nationalism, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy over "Comfort Women"
  • Part III. Coalitions at Work: Transgressive, Transracial, Transnational
  • 9. Coalition Politics in Organizing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • 10. Extraordinary Alliances in Crisis Situations: Women against Hindu Nationalism in India
  • 11. Working with Feminists in Zimbabwe: A Black American's Experience of Transnational Alliances
  • 12. Building Connections between Antiracism and Feminism: Antiracist Women and Profeminist Men
  • Part IV. Faith and Other Unfinished Feminisms
  • 13. "L'affaire des Foulards": Problems of Defining a Feminist Antiracist Strategy in French Schools
  • 14. Memorializing Racist Massacres: Faith versus Feminism in Florida
  • 15. Casting Off Servitude: Assessing Caste and Gender Inequality in India
  • 16. Mapping the Meanings of "Racism" and "Feminism" among Women Television Broadcast Journalists in Canada
  • Appendix A. Chronology of Selected Feminist, Racist, and Antiracist Actions
  • Appendix B. Selected List of Feminist and Antiracist Organizations
  • Index