Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality

by Brackette Williams (Editor)

Overview

These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in Women Out of Place: the Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality investigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial and cultural redemption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415914963
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/07/1996
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brackette Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Brackette F. Williams; Part I Essentialism and Gendered Movements; Chapter 1 Gandhi and Feminized Nationalism in India, Richard G. Fox; Chapter 2 Race/Class/Gender Ideology in Guatemala, Carol A. Smith; Chapter 3 Multiple Alterities, Louisa Schein; Chapter 4 “Fit Citizens for the British Empire?”, Jacqui True; Chapter 5 A Race of Men, A Class of Women, Brackette F. Williams; Part II “Wombs” of Nationalist Respectability and the Problem of Patri-Racial Redemption; Chapter 6 “Feminism, the Murderer of Mothers”, Éva V. Huseby-Darvas; Chapter 7 “And Your Prayers Shall Be Answered Through the Womb of a Woman”, Paulette Pierce, Brackette F. Williams; Chapter 8 Boudoir Politics and the Birthing of the Nation, Paulette Pierce; Chapter 9 “Business Story is Better Than Love”, Deborah S. Rubin;