ISBN:
0847686051
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0847686043
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9781461618058
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9780847686056
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 176 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Spoils of War : Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Women Crimes against
;
Patriarchy
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Minority women Social conditions
;
Women Social conditions
;
African American women Social conditions
;
Women and war
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Women, Black Social conditions
;
African American women - Social conditions
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe; 1: Ella Baker, ""Black Women's Work"" and Activist Intellectuals; 2: Struggling along the Race-Gender Academic Divide; Part II: Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence; 3: In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women; 4: When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability, Intraracial Sexual Violence, and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerard Tyson
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era5: Women and the Gulf War: A Critique of Feminist Responses; 6: Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism; Part IV: Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity, Exile, and Gender; 7: Women, War, Autobiography, and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la Fantasia; 8: Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in Le Baobab Fou; 9: Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands; Afterword
Description / Table of Contents:
BibliographyIndex; About the Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-166) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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