Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader

Reina Lewis; Sara Mills

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2003

Feminist Postcolonial Theory

A Reader

Reina Lewis and Sara Mills

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474470254

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The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it.

The volume seeks to open up the field by juxtaposing a number of contested subjects. Readings cover a range of geographical regions including: South-east Asia, India, Africa, Latin America, Canada, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Australia and Ireland. Key topics include: colonialism and anti-colonialism, 'otherness', sexuality, sexual rights, the harem and the veil, space and writing, and aboriginal and indigenous women's issues. Not only does this anthology address the lack of attention to gender and feminism in early studies of colonial discourse, it also provides resources for readers to trace the developments in feminism as it responds to postcolonial critiques of First World feminism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
INTRODUCTION Reina Lewis and Sara Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Racialising Feminism
1.1 'THE MASTER'S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER'S HOUSE' Audre Lorde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
1.2 'NOTES TOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION' Adrienne Rich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
1.3 'THE USES OF FUNDAMENTALISM' Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
1.4 'UN ER WESTERN EYES: FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP AND COLONIAL DISCOURSES' Chandra Talpade Mohanty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
1.5 'US THIRD-WORLD FEMINISM: THE THEORY AND METHOD OPPOSITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD' Chela Sandoval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part 2 Rethinking Whiteness
2.1 'TO MAKE THE FACTS KNOWN: RACIAL TERROR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE FEMININITY' Vron Ware Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
2.2 'IROQUOIS WOMEN, EUROPEAN WOMEN' Natalie Zemon Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
2.3 'WHITE WOMEN AND COLONIALISM TOWARDS A NON-RECUPERATIVE HISTORY' Jane Haggis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
2.4 'I'M A FEMINIST BUT ... "OTHER" WOMEN AND POSTNATIONAL FEMINISM' len Ang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
2.5 'THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE: BLACK FEMALE SPECTATORS' Bell Hooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
2.6 '"ON THE THRESHOLD OF WOMAN'S ERA": LYNCHING, EMPIRE AND SEXUALITY IN BLACK FEMINIST THEORY' Hazel V. Carby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Part 3 Redefining the 'Third-World' Subject
3.1 'DEAD WOMEN TELL N TALES: ISSUES OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY, SUBALTERN AGENCY AND TRAD ON IN COLON AND POSTCOLONIAL WRITINGS ON WIDOW IMMOLATION IN INDIA' Ania Loomba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
3.2 'END OF EMPIRE: ISLAM, NATIONALISM AND WOMEN IN TURKEY' Deniz Kandiyoti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
3.3 'HOW NATIVE IS A "NATIVE" ANTHROPOLOGIST?' Kirin Narayan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
3.4 'THREE WOMEN'S TEXTS AND A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
3.5 'WHERE HAVE All THE NATIVES GONE?' Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Part 4 SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL RIGHTS
4.1 'RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS' Angela Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
4.2 'FEMINISMS AND UNIVERSALISM$: "UNIVERSAL RIGHTS" AND THE LEGAL DEBATE AROUND THE PRACTICE OF FEMALE EXCISION IN FRANCE' Françoise Lionnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
4.3 'STATE VERSUS ISLAM: MALAY FAMILIES, WOMEN'S BODIES AND THE BODY POLITIC IN MALAYSIA' Aihwa Ong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
4.4 'DEBT-BONDAGE AND TRAFFICKING: DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE' Alison Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
4.5 RECONFIGURING HIERARCHIES: THE ILBERT BILL CONTROVERSY, 1883-84 Mrinalini Sinha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
4.6 'VACATION CRUISES; OR, THE HOMOEROTICS OF ORIENTALISM' Joseph A. Boone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
Part 5 Harem and the Veil
5.1 'THE MEANING OF SPATIAL BOUNDARIES' Fatima Mernissi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
5.2 'THE SEEN, THE UNSEEN AND THE IMAGINED: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIVES' Sarah Graham Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502
5.3 'ON VEILING, VISION AND VOYAGE: CROSS-CULTURAL DRESSING AND NARRATIVES OF IDENTITY' Reina Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	520
5.4 'VEILED FANTASIES: CULTURAL AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE IN THE DISCOURSE OF ORIENTALISM' Meyda Yeğenoğlu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	542
5.5 'UNVEILING ALGERIA' Winifred Woodhull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
5.6 'VEILING RESISTANCE' Fadwa El Guind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	586
Part 6 Gender and post/colonial spatial relations
6.1 'DIASPORA, BORDER AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES' Avtar Brah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
6.2 'IMPERIAL LEATHER: RACE, CROSSDRESSING AND THE CULT OF DOMESTICITY' Anne Mclintock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635
6.3 'EARTH HONORING: WESTERN DESIRES AND INDIGENIOUS KNOWLEDGES' Jane M. Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
6.4 'GENDER AND COLONIAL SPACE' Sara Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	692
6.5 SPATIAL STORIES UNDER WOMEN WRITING FROM LUCKNOW IN 1857' Alison Blunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	720
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	739
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	747

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 754
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: July 8, 2003
ISBN: 9781474470254