Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Section 1: Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalising Feminism 1.1 Audre Lorde: 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House' 1.2 Adrienne Rich: 'Notes Towards a Politics of Location' 1.3 Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis: 'The Uses of Fundamentalism' 1.4 Chandra Talpade Mohanty: 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses' 1.5 Chela Sandoval: 'US Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World Section 2: Rethinking Whiteness 2.1 Vron Ware: 'To Make the Facts Known: Racial Terror and the Construction of White Femininity' 2.2 Natalie Zemon Davis: 'Iroquois Women, European Women' 2.3 Jane Haggis: 'White Women and Colonialism: Towards a Non-Recuperative History' 2.4 Ien Ang:'I'm a Feminist but . : Other Women and Postnational Feminism' 2.5 bell hooks: 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators' 2.6 Hazel V. Carby: 'On the Threshold of Women's Era: Lynching, Empire and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory' Section 3: Redefining The 'Third World' Subject 3.1 Ania Loomba: 'Dead Women Tell No tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-colonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India' 3.2 Deniz Kandiyoti: 'End of Empire: Islam, Nationalism and Women in Turkey' 3.3 Kirin Narayan: 'How Native is a Native Anthropologist?' 3.4 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism' 3.5 Rey Chow:'Where Have all the Natives Gone?' Section 4: Sexuality and Sexual Rights 4.1 Angela Davis: 'Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights' 4.2 Françoise Lionnet: 'Feminisms and Universalisms: Universal Rights and the Legal Debate Around the Practice of Female Excision in France' A 4.3 Aihwa Ong: 'State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies and the Body Politic in Malaysia' 4.4 Alison Murray: 'Debt-Bondage and Trafficking: Don't Believe the Hype' 4.5 Mrinalini Sinha: 'Reconfiguring Hierarchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84' 4.6 Joseph A. Boone: 'Vacation Cruises; or, The Homoerotics of Orientalism' Section 5: Harem and the Veil 5.1 Fatima Mernissi: 'The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries' 5.2 Sarah Graham-Brown: 'The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined: Private and Public Lives' 5.3 Reina Lewis: 'On Veiling, Vision and Voyage: Cross-cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity' 5.4 Meyda Yegenoglu: 'Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism' 5.5 Winifred Woodhull: 'Unveiling Algeria' 5.6 Fadwa El Guindi: 'Veiling Resistance' Section 6: Gender and Post/colonial Spatial Relations 6.1 Avtar Brah: 'Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities' 6.2 Anne McClintock: 'Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-Dressing and the Cult of Domesticity' 6.3 Jane M. Jacobs: 'Earth Honoring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges' 6.4 Sara Mills: 'Gender and Colonial Space' 6.5 Alison Blunt: 'Spatial Stories Under Siege: British Women Writing from Lucknow in 1857' Bibliography