The author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom.

"Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices" brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays--some classic, some less known, some new--trace a powerful intellectual trajectory as Shohat rigorously teases out the consequences of a deep critique of Eurocentric epistemology, whether to rethink feminism through race, nationalism through ethnicity, or colonialism through sexuality.

Shohat's critical method boldly...

Examines how notions of femininity and masculinity and heterosexual norms produced ethnicity in the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and also looks at how words and images created by the media are just as influential as violent practices in constructin

The book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women s health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and health. "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has also had a whole life outside the United States. It has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women across the globe, inspiring more than thirty foreign...

Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider s view of Indian cultures, traditions, and history to an American public increasingly aware of the expanded role of the United States on the world stage. Between 1945 and 1970, Rama Rau published half a dozen books, including travelogues, novels, a memoir, and a Time-Life cookbook; she was a regular...

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual,...

This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria s beautiful beaches and mountains; tourism is today one of the few successful and expanding sectors of the country s economy. Even at the highest levels of management, employment in the tourism industry has long been dominated by women. Kristen Ghodsee explains why this is and how women working in the industry...

Essays by a leading post-colonial theorist on topics including gender, diaspora, film and Israel.