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Feminism And 'Race'

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ISBN-10: 0198782365

ISBN-13: 9780198782360

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kum-Kum Bhavnani

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The past two decades have seen the incursion of feminist thought into many academic areas. Within the academy, feminist approaches have gained some legitimacy and yet, simultaneous with these disciplinary advances, there have been charges of racism directed at feminist scholarship and practice. These charges have resulted in feminist work continuously reshaping itself. This volume represents the strength as well as diversity of writings which discuss 'race' and feminism showing how these two areas, usually considered to be distinct and therefore discrete from each other, have developed. Feminism and Race includes articles spanning a number of disciplinary areas, such as history, literary…    
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Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.46" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
The Basis for the Debates
Challenging Imperial Feminism
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
Angry Women are Building
Preface: Black Women in White America
Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist
Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness
Engaging the Debates
'Race', Gender, and the Concept of Difference in Feminist Thought
Moving the Mountains, Making the Links
The Persistence of Vision
Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions
'Race', Identity and Cultural Criticism
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Research Process
'Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something'. African-American Women's Historical Novels
The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies
U.S. Third World Feminism and Oppositional Consciousness
Decolonising Feminism
Shifting the Debates
Black Women's Employment and the British Economy
Women, Migration, and the State
People or Population
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran
Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment
Black (w)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism
Environmental Action, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience
Difference, Diversity, Differentiation
Crosscurrents, Crosstalk
Genealogies, Legacies, Movements
Exploding the Canon
Index