Women Out of Place
eBook - ePub

Women Out of Place

The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Women Out of Place

The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality

About this book

These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in Women Out of Place: the Genderof Agency and Race of Nationality investigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial and cultural redemption.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415914963
eBook ISBN
9781135234836
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction: Mannish Women and Gender After the Act
  8. Part I Essentialism and Gendered Movements
  9. Part II “Wombs” of Nationalist Respectability and the Problem of Patri-Racial Redemption
  10. Notes on Contributors
  11. Index