Feminist postcolonial theory
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Reina Lewis and Sara Mills.
Contributors: Lewis, Reina, 1963-; Mills, Sara, 1954-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 754
Subjects: Feminism -- History.; Feminist theory.; Postcolonialism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 739-746) and index.
Table of contents: title: The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house; title: Notes towards a politics of location; title: The uses of fundamentalism; title: Under Western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses; title: US Third-World feminism: the theory and method of oppositional consciousness in the postmodern world; title: To make the facts known: racial terror and the construction of white femininity; title: Iroquois women, European women; title: White women and colonialism: towards a non-recuperative history; title: I'm a feminist but ... "Other" women and postnational feminism; title: The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators; title: "On the threshold of woman's era": lynching, empire and sexuality in Black feminist theory; title: Dead women tell no tales: issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India; title: End of empire: Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey; title: How native is a "native" anthropologist?; title: Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism; title: Where have all the natives gone?; title: Racism, birth control and reproductive rights; title: Feminisms and universalisms: "universal rights" and the legal debate around the practice of female excision in France; title: State versus Islam: Malay families, women's bodies and the body politic in Malaysia; title: Debt-bondage and trafficking: don't believe the hype; title: Reconfiguring hierarchies: the Ilbert Bill controversy, 1883-84; title: Vacation cruises: or, the homoerotics of orientalism - The meaning of spatial boundaries; title: The seen, the unseen and the imagined: private and public lives; title: On veiling, vision and voyage: cross-cultural dressing and narratives of identity; title: Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism; title: Unveiling Algeria; title: Veiling resistance; title: Diaspora, border and transnational identities; title: Imperial leather: race, cross-dressing and the cult of domesticity; title: Earth honoring: Western desires and indigenous knowledges; title: Gender and colonial space; title: Spatial stories under siege: British women writing from Lucknow in 1857.