New Frontiers In Women's Studies: Knowledge, Identity And Nationalism

by Maynard,Mary

• ISBN13: 9780748402878
• ISBN10: 074840287X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135747053
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

This text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: New Frontiers in Women's Studies	1	(10)
Mary Maynard
June Purvis
Section I On the Move: New Agendas for Women's Studies	11	(116)
Chapter 1 Challenging the Boundaries: Towards an Anti-racist Women's Studies	11	(19)
Mary Maynard
Chapter 2 Anti-colonial Subjects? Post-colonial Subjects? Nationalisms, Ethnocentrisms and Feminist Scholarship	30	(21)
Joanna de Groot
Chapter 3 What Happened to Feminist Politics in `Gender Training'?	51	(12)
Bunie M. Matlanyane Sexwale
Chapter 4 The Political and the Personal: Women's Writing in China in the 1980s	63	(13)
Delia Davin
Chapter 5 Reassessing Representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Militant Feminists in Edwardian Britain: On the Importance of a Knowledge of our Feminist Past	76	(20)
June Purvis
Chapter 6 Gender, Nation and Scholarship: Reflections on Gender/Women's Studies in the Czech Republic	96	(17)
Jitka Maleckova
Chapter 7 Possibilities for Women's Studies in Post-communist Countries: Where are We Going?	113	(14)
Svetlana Kupryashkina
Section 2 Women in Movement: Identity, Migration and Nationalism	127	(116)
Chapter 8 Resituating Discourses of `Whiteness' and `Asianness' in Northern England: Second-generation Sikh Women and Constructions of Identity	127	(24)
Jasbir K. Puar
Chapter 9 Women Who Move: Experiences of Diaspora	151	(13)
Magdalene Ang-Lygate
Chapter 10 `The Home of Our Mothers and Our Birthright for Ages'? Nation, Diaspora and Irish Women	164	(23)
Breda Gray
Chapter 11 Boundary Politics: Women, Nationalism and Danger	187	(16)
Jan Jindy Pettman
Chapter 12 Gender, Colonialism and Nationalism. Women Activists in Uttar Pradesh, India	203	(17)
Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert
Chapter 13 East German Women Five Years after the Wende	220	(23)
Hanna Behrend
Notes on Contributors	243	(3)
Index	246