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Third World women and the politics of feminism
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page viii)
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Preface (page ix)
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"I Ain't the Right Kind of Feminist" (Cheryl L. West, page xii)
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Introduction Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Chandra Talpade Mohanty, page 1)
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1. Power, Representation, and Feminist Critique
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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (Chandra Talpade Mohanty, page 51)
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Violence in the Other Country: China as Crisis, Spectacle, and Woman (Rey Chow, page 81)
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The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s (Barbara Smith, page 101)
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2. Public Policy, the State, and Ideologies of Gender
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Redrafting Morality: The Postcolonial State and the Sexual Offences Bill of Trinidad and Tobago (M. Jacqui Alexander, page 133)
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Building Politics from Personal Lives: Discussions on Sexuality among Poor Women in Brazil (Carmen Barroso and Cristina Bruschini, page 153)
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Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy: Insights from a Kingston Slum (Faye V. Harrison, page 173)
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Women and Crime in the United States (Juanita Diaz-Cotto, page 197)
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3. National Liberation and Sexual Politics
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Women's Equality and National Liberation (Angela Gilliam, page 215)
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Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women in the Middle East (Evelyne Accad, page 237)
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Gender and Islamic Fundamentalism: Feminist Politics in Iran (Nayereh Tohidi, page 251)
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4. Race, Identity, and Feminist Struggles
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The Construction of the Self in U.S. Latina Autobiographies (Lourdes Torres, page 271)
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Socialist Feminism: Our Bridge to Freedom (Nellie Wong, page 288)
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"We Cannot Live without Our Lives": White Women, Antiracism, and Feminism (Ann Russo, page 297)
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Common Themes, Different Contexts: Third World Women and Feminism (Cheryl Johnson-Odim, page 314)
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Biographical Notes (page 328)
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Index (page 331)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AA | 94.3 (Sep. 1992): 748 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199209%292%3A94%3A3%3C748%3ATWWATP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N |
MER | 183 (Jul. 1993): 43-45 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-2851%28199307%2F08%290%3A183%3C43%3ATVATME%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 |
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Published: c1991
Publisher: Indiana University Press
- 9780253338730 (hardcover)
- 9780253206329 (paper)