Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

by Alexander, M. Jacqui; Mohanty, Chandra Talpade

• ISBN13: 9780415912112
• ISBN10: 0415912113
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Gloria Wekker, Geraldine Heng, Amina Mama, Annanya Bhattacharjee, Evelynn Hammonds, Kavita Punjabi, Paula Moya, M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(4)
Introduction: Genealogies, Legacies, Movements	xiii
M. Jacqui Alexander
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
I. Colonial Legacies, Capitalist State Practice, and Feminist Movements	3	(122)
1 Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity	3	(27)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
2 "A Great Way to Fly": Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism	30	(16)
Geraldine Heng
3 Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa	46	(17)
Amina Mama
4 Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy	63	(38)
M. Jacqui Alexander
5 Civil Rights versus Sovereignty: Native American Women in Life and Land Struggles	101	(24)
Marie Anna Jaimes Guerrero
II. Crafting Selves, Reimagining Identities and Cultures	125	(88)
6 Postmodernism, "Realism," and the Politics of Identity: Cherrie Moraga and Chicana Feminism	125	(26)
Paula M.L. Moya
7 Probing "Morality" and State Violence: Feminist Values and Communicative Interaction in Prison Testimonios in India and Argentina	151	(19)
Kavita Panjabi
8 Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence	170	(13)
Evelynn M. Hammonds
9 Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema	183	(30)
Ella Shohat
III. Anatomies of Organizing, Building Feminist Futures	213	(140)
10 Ring Ding in a Tight Corner: Sistren, Collective Democracy, and the Organization of Cultural Production	213	(46)
Honor Ford-Smith
11 Looking at Ourselves: The Women's Movement in Hyderabad	259	(21)
Vasanth Kannabiran
Kalpana Kannabiran
12 The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN)	280	(28)
Ayesha M. Imam
13 The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community	308	(22)
Anannya Bhattacharjee
14 One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency	330	(23)
Gloria Wekker
Notes	353	(48)
Contributors	401	(4)
Index	405