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Feminist postcolonial theory : a reader /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lewis, Reina, 1963- (Editor ), Mills, Sara, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.