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: 9780847686056
• ISBN10: 0847686051
• Format: Paperback
• 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
Foreword
Preface
Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe
Ella Baker, "Black Women's Work" and Activist Intellectuals	p. 3
Struggling along the Race-Gender Academic Divide	p. 19
Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence
In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women	p. 27
When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability, Intraracial Sexual Violence, and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerard Tyson	p. 45
Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era
Women and the Gulf War: A Critique of Feminist Responses	p. 59
Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism	p. 83
Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity, Exile, and Gender
Women, War, Autobiography, and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia	p. 103
Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in Le baobab fou	p. 113
Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands	p. 127
Afterword	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 153
Index	p. 167
About the Contributors	p. 175
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