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Feminist postcolonial theory : a reader / edited by Reina Lewis and Sara Mills.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xi, 754 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415942756 (pbk.)
  • 0415942748
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1150 .F45 2003
Contents:
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house -- Notes towards a politics of location -- The uses of fundamentalism -- Under Western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses -- US Third-World feminism: the theory and method of oppositional consciousness in the postmodern world -- To make the facts known: racial terror and the construction of white femininity -- Iroquois women, European women -- White women and colonialism: towards a non-recuperative history -- I'm a feminist but ... "Other" women and postnational feminism -- The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators -- "On the threshold of woman's era": lynching, empire and sexuality in Black feminist theory -- Dead women tell no tales: issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India -- End of empire: Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey -- How native is a "native" anthropologist? -- Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism -- Where have all the natives gone? -- Racism, birth control and reproductive rights -- Feminisms and universalisms: "universal rights" and the legal debate around the practice of female excision in France -- State versus Islam: Malay families, women's bodies and the body politic in Malaysia -- Debt-bondage and trafficking: don't believe the hype -- Reconfiguring hierarchies: the Ilbert Bill controversy, 1883-84 -- Vacation cruises: or, the homoerotics of orientalism - The meaning of spatial boundaries -- The seen, the unseen and the imagined: private and public lives -- On veiling, vision and voyage: cross-cultural dressing and narratives of identity -- Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism -- Unveiling Algeria -- Veiling resistance -- Diaspora, border and transnational identities -- Imperial leather: race, cross-dressing and the cult of domesticity -- Earth honoring: Western desires and indigenous knowledges -- Gender and colonial space -- Spatial stories under siege: British women writing from Lucknow in 1857.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 739-746) and index.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house -- Notes towards a politics of location -- The uses of fundamentalism -- Under Western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses -- US Third-World feminism: the theory and method of oppositional consciousness in the postmodern world -- To make the facts known: racial terror and the construction of white femininity -- Iroquois women, European women -- White women and colonialism: towards a non-recuperative history -- I'm a feminist but ... "Other" women and postnational feminism -- The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators -- "On the threshold of woman's era": lynching, empire and sexuality in Black feminist theory -- Dead women tell no tales: issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India -- End of empire: Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey -- How native is a "native" anthropologist? -- Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism -- Where have all the natives gone? -- Racism, birth control and reproductive rights -- Feminisms and universalisms: "universal rights" and the legal debate around the practice of female excision in France -- State versus Islam: Malay families, women's bodies and the body politic in Malaysia -- Debt-bondage and trafficking: don't believe the hype -- Reconfiguring hierarchies: the Ilbert Bill controversy, 1883-84 -- Vacation cruises: or, the homoerotics of orientalism - The meaning of spatial boundaries -- The seen, the unseen and the imagined: private and public lives -- On veiling, vision and voyage: cross-cultural dressing and narratives of identity -- Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism -- Unveiling Algeria -- Veiling resistance -- Diaspora, border and transnational identities -- Imperial leather: race, cross-dressing and the cult of domesticity -- Earth honoring: Western desires and indigenous knowledges -- Gender and colonial space -- Spatial stories under siege: British women writing from Lucknow in 1857.

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