Description

Women of color remain arguably the most economically, politically, and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Part 3 Part I. Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe
Chapter 4 Ella Baker "Black Women's Work" and Activist Intellectuals
Chapter 5 Struggling Along the Race-Gender Academic Divide
Part 6 Part II. Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence
Chapter 7 In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women
Chapter 8 When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability/ Intraracial Sexual Violence/ and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerald Tyson
Part 9 Part III. Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era. Women and the Gulf War: A Crit
Chapter 10 Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism
Part 11 Part IV. Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity/ Exile/ and Gender
Chapter 12 Women/ War/ and Autobiography/ and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour la fantasia
Chapter 13 Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in le baobab fou
Chapter 14 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands
Chapter 15 Afterword

Product details

Published 29 Aug 1997
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9781461618058
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Renée T. White

Contributor

Janet Afary

Contributor

Lewis R. Gordon

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Afr…

Contributor

Joy A. James

Contributor

Shahrzad Mojab

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