Spoils of War Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions

by White, Renée T.; Sharpley-Whiting, Denean T.; Sandoval, Chela; Afary, Janet; Carroll, Berenice A.; Gordon, Lewis R.; James, Joy A.; Martinez, Jacqueline M.; Mojab, Shahrzad; Orlando, Valérie K.; Salvodon, Marjorie; Sharpley-Whiting, T Denean

• ISBN13: 9780847686049
• ISBN10: 0847686043
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-29
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of war, experienced daily by women of color.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Foreword	ix	(4)
Chela Sandoval
Preface	xiii
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Renee T. White
Part I: Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe	3	(24)
1 Ella Baker, "Black Women's Work" and Activist Intellectuals	3	(16)
Joy James
2 Struggling along the Race-Gender Academic Divide	19	(8)
Lewis R. Gordon
Part II: Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence	27	(32)
3 In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women	27	(18)
Renee T. White
4 When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability, Intraracial Sexual Violence, and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerard Tyson	45	(14)
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
5 Part III: Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era	59	(44)
5 Women and the Gulf War: A Critique of Feminist Responses	59	(24)
Shahrzad Mojab
6 Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism	83	(20)
Janet Afary
Part IV: Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity, Exile, and Gender	103	(48)
7 Women, War, Autobiography, and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia	103	(10)
Valerie Orlando
8 Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in Le baobab fou	113	(14)
Marjorie Salvodon
9 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands	127	(24)
Jacqueline M. Martinez
Afterword	151	(2)
Berenice A. Carroll
Bibliography	153	(14)
Index	167	(8)
About the Contributors	175