ISBN:
9780748402878
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version New Frontiers In Women's Studies : Knowledge, Identity And Nationalism
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; References; Section I On the Move: New Agendas for Women's Studies; Chapter 1 Challenging the Boundaries: Towards an Anti-racist Women's Studies; Introduction; Challenging White Women's Studies; Issues of Race and Racism in Women's Studies; The Concept of Difference; The Multicultural Approach; The Dangers of Cultural Relativism; The Role of Cultural Imperialism; Facing the Challenge; Concluding Remarks; Note; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 2 Anti-colonial Subjects? Post-colonial Subjects? Nationalisms, Ethnocentrisms and Feminist ScholarshipNotes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3 What Happened to Feminist Politics in 'Gender Training'?; Note; References; Further Reading; Chapter 4 The Political and the Personal: Women's Writing in China in the 1980s; Chinese Intellectuals and the Literature of Social Criticism; Love, Marriage and Divorce; Single Women; Work and Family; Abortion; Note; References; Further Reading
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Chapter 5 Reassessing Representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Militant Feminists in Edwardian Britain: On the I'Deeds, Not Words': WSPU Motto; Representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst; Liberal Feminist Influences; Socialist Feminist Influences; Women-Identifed Women; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Gender, Nation and Scholarship: Reflections on Gender/Women's Studies in the Czech Republic; The Roots: Czech Women in History; Two Different Approaches: Research on Women and Gender Studies; Identity, Message and Audience: Why Deal with Gender Issues?; Notes
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ReferencesChapter 7 Possibilities for Women's Studies in Postcommunist Countries: Where Are We Going?; 'Socialist Emancipation': What Preceded It; The Soviet Period: Equality or Loss of Gender Identity?; Women's Studies in Ukraine: Current Trends; Notes; References; Further Reading; Section II Women in Movement: Identity, Migration and Nationalism; Chapter 8 Resituating Discourse of 'Whiteness' and 'Asianness' in Northern England: Second-generation Sikh Women and Construc; What is 'Asianness?': The South Asian Other; The Second Generation
Description / Table of Contents:
Bargaining with Racism: Oppositionally Active 'Whiteness'Receiving and Returning the 'Double Gaze'; The Politicization of Sikhism; Masala-itis; Language as Resistance; Interracial Relationships and Cultural Autonomy; Conclusion; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9 Women Who Move: Experiences of Diaspora; Introduction; Who is She? Where is She? Woman-as-Other, Native-as-Other, Woman-Native-Other; (Inappropriate) Woman-(Diasporic) Other; Now You See Me, Now You Don't: On Terminology and Stereotypes; Unsaying the Already-said; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10 The Home of Our Mothers and Our Birthright for Ages'? Nation, Diaspora and Irish Women
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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