Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415912112
• eBook ISBN: 9781135771317
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, DemocraticFutures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, charts the underlying theoretical perspectives and organization practices of the different varieties of feminism that take on questions of colonialism, imperialism, and the repressive rule of colonial, post-colonial and advanced capitalist nation-states. It provides a comparative, relational, historically grounded conception of feminist praxis that differs markedly from the liberal pluralist, multicultural understanding that sheapes some of the dominant version of Euro-American feminism. As a whole, the collection poses a unique challenge to the naturalization of gender based in the experiences, histories and practices of Euro-American women.

Index

A

Abenaki Indians, 375(n13), 378(n40)

Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service Area Office, 113

abortion, among Native Americans, 114

Abortion Bill of 1981 [Nigeria], 298

Abourezk, James, 114

Abreu, Gilda de, 183

Abubakar, Hauwa, 47

abuse of women. See also domestic violence

in Africa, 47, 51, 52, 56, 58, 60

in Bahamas, 67

Achumawi Indians, 119

Adomo, Theodor, 156

“Aesthetic of Hunger” (Rocha), 187

Africa

anti-violence struggles in, 60–61

colonial period in, 48–53, 61

gender relations and ideologies in, 53, 61

African Americans, media images of, 204

African American women, sexuality of, 170–182

African Development Bank, 300

African women

in colonial period, 48–53

imperialism effects on, 50

nationalist movements and, 53–56

in postcolonial period, 56–58

violence against, 46–62

Afro-Caribbean peoples, in Britain, 311

Afro-Caribbean women, in British labor force, 18

Afro hair style, 203, 204

Afro-Surinamese women, 330–352

mati work of, 331–332, 336–339, 344

After the Earthquake (Portillo), 195

AIDS

in Bahamas, 66, 69, 89, 96, 97, 372(n50)

black women with, 171,178–179

in Native Americans, 112, 377(n25)

in Thailand, 32

in Uganda, 367(n20)

airline hostesses, molestation of, 38, 362(n20)

airline industries, in South Asia countries, 32, 38, 361 (n18)

Aisa, as Suriname concept of self, 334, 335

Alarcon, Norma, 144

Alcoff, Linda, 127, 381(n6)

alcohol use, among Native Americans, 114, 115

Alexander, M. Jacqui, 11, 355, 403

Algeria

Third-World cinema in, 184

women's status in, 54

Algonquin Indians, 115

Allah Tonto, 190

Allotment policy, for Native Americans, 110, 380(n51)

Alternatives to Structural Adjustment Conference [Nigeria], 293

Alunan, Gina, 316

Amadiume, Ifi, 280, 307

“Amal ” (The Hope of My Life), 193

“American Africani...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• Introduction Genealogies, Legacies, Movements
• I. Colonial Legacies, Capitalist State Practice, and Feminist Movements
• 1 Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity
• 2 “A Great Way to Fly”: Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism
• 3 Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa
• 4 Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy
• 5 Civil Rights versus Sovereignty: Native American Women in Life and Land Struggles
• II. Crafting Selves, Reimagining Identities and Cultures
• 6 Postmodernism, “Realism,” and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism
• 7 Probing “Morality” and State Violence: Feminist Values and Communicative Interaction in Prison Testimonios in India and Argentina
• 8 Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence
• 9 Post–Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema
• III. Anatomies of Organizing, Building Feminist Futures
• 10 Ring Ding in a Tight Corner: Sistren, Collective Democracy, and the Organization of Cultural Production
• 11 Looking at Ourselves: The Women's Movement in Hyderabad
• 12 The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN)
• 13 The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community
• 14 One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index