Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions

by Renée T. White (Editor), Denean T. Sharpley-Whiting (Editor), Chela Sandoval (Foreword by), Janet Afary (Contribution by), Berenice A. Carroll (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847686056
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/29/1997
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.92(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Renée T. White is assistant professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of Black Texts & Textuality (Rowman & Littlefield) and Putting Risk in Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield). Sharpley-Whiting and White also co-edited Fanon: A Critical Reader. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is assistant professor of African-American studies at Purdue University, and the author of Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

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

Editorial Reviews

A diverse collection of interdisciplinary voices that eloquently testifies to the ongoing historical and transnational resistance waged by women of color around the world against the many and varied forces that oppress them.

Angela Y. Davis