Decolonizing feminisms : race, gender, & empire-building
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Decolonizing feminisms : race, gender, & empire-building
Routledge, c1992
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Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Bibliography: p. 157-169
Includes index
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Description
Perhaps the greatest challenge to feminism in recent decades has emerged from the Black or Third World women's movement, which charges that the work of White middle-class feminists is often complicit with the agendas of White supremacy and Anglo-Saxon imperialism. In "Decolonializing Feminisms" Laura Donaldson's analysis aims to show how the oppositional stances of `First' versus `Third' world, and `traditional' versus `postmodern' feminists, can be brought into a more supportive relationship. Donaldson places contemporary theoretical debates about reading, writing, and the politics of identity, within the context of historical colonialism. Her readings of the work of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, and such films as "A Passage to India", reveal the subtle inter-relationships of gender, race, class, religion and sexual practice.
Table of Contents
- The Miranda Complex - Colonialism and the Question of Feminist Reading
- The King and I in Uncle Tom's Cabin - or - On the Borders of the Women's Room - Race, Gender and Sexual Difference
- The Con of the Text - Textualism, Contextualism, and Anti-colonialist Feminist Theories
- Of "Piccaninnies" and Peter Pan - the Problem of Discourse in a Marxist Never-Never Land
- "A Passage to India" - Colonialism and Filmic Representation
- Rereading Moses/Rewriting Exodus - the Post-colonial Imagination of Zora Neale Hurston
- (ex)Changing (wo)Man - Towards a Materialist Feminist Semiotics Postscipt - On Women's "Experience".
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