Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

ISBN-13: 9780415912129 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 464 str.

M. Jacqui Alexander; Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Opis

This collection of essays charts the various feminist theories and practices that address imperialism, post-colonialism, and the advanced capitalist nation-state. It provides a comparative conception of feminist praxis that differs markedly from the liberal, pluralist, multicultural understanding that shapes the dominant versions of Euro-American feminism. As a whole, the collection poses a challenge to the naturalization of gender based in the experiences, histories and practices of Euro-American women. The contributors present studies of feminist movements that challenge post-cold war capitalist processes of recolonization that further exacerbate racial, heterosexual, class and gender hierarchies. The volume maps the anatomy of feminist movements and organizations, and examines the resources they provide for envisioning feminist democratic practice. Issues of consciousness, agency and identity are crucial in understanding these processes. The essays collected here define new modes of thinking, of organizational self-reflection, of political engagement, and of reimagining the social world.

Recenzje

"Feminist Genealogies has a transnational orientation, drawing together essays from places as diverse as a the Philippines, Nigeria, and Jamaica. After reading Feminist Genealogies, one is left with a feeling of hope about the possibility of "democratic futures"..." -- NWSA Journal
"Feminist Genealogies calls upon us to rethink feminist theories and practices within a complex intersectional and transnational framework. In contesting prevailing notions of global feminism, which tend to depart from resistance practices crafted in the West, Alexander and Mohanty have chosen essays that create new and provocative conversations among activist women involved in important transformative political projects in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. These conversations demand that we think deeply about advanced capitalist relations and how they reproduce and are reproduced through forms of domination that are sexualized, gendered, and racialized. This timely collection of essays should stimulate new discussions about feminist political engagement and about feminist organizing practices as ways of envisioning and struggling for democratic futures." -- Angela Y. Davis, University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies

Spis treści

Colonial Legacies, Capitalist State Practice, and Feminist Movements; Chapter 1 Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity, Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Chapter 2 “A Great Way to Fly”: Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism, Geraldine Heng; Chapter 3 Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa, Amina Mama; Chapter 4 Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy, M. Jacqui Alexander; Chapter 5 Civil Rights versus Sovereignty: Native American Women in Life and Land Struggles, Marie Anna Jaimes Guerrero; Crafting Selves, Reimagining Identities and Cultures; Chapter 6 Postmodernism, “Realism,” and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism, Paula M. L. Moya; Chapter 7 Probing “Morality” and State Violence: Feminist Values and Communicative Interaction in Prison Testimonios in India and Argentina, Kavita Panjabi; Chapter 8 Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence, Evelynn M. Hammonds; Chapter 9 Post–Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema, Ella Shohat; Anatomies of Organizing, Building Feminist Futures; Chapter 10 Ring Ding in a Tight Corner: Sistren, Collective Democracy, and the Organization of Cultural Production, Honor Ford-Smith; Chapter 11 Looking at Ourselves: The Women's Movement in Hyderabad, Vasanth Kannabiran, Kalpana Kannabiran; Chapter 12 The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN), Ayesha M. Imam; Chapter 13 The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community, Anannya Bhattacharjee; Chapter 14 One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency, Gloria Wekker;

O autorze

M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty