Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Reina Lewis, Sara Mills

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 767
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethinking Whiteness," "Redefining the 'Third World' Subject," "Sexuality and Sexual Rights," "Harem and the Veil," and "Gender and Post/colonial Relations." A bibliography complements the wide-ranging essays. This is the ideal volume for any reader interested in the development of postcoloniality and feminist thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL THEORY: A READER......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
PART I GENDERING COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM/RACIALISING FEMINISM......Page 36
1.1 'THE MASTER’S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER’S HOUSE’......Page 38
1.2 ‘NOTES TOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION’......Page 42
1.3 'THE USES OF FUNDAMENTALISM’......Page 56
1.4 ‘UNDER WESTERN EYES: FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP AND COLONIAL DISCOURSES’......Page 62
1.5 ‘US THIRD-WORLD FEMINISM: THE THEORY AND METHOD OF OPPOSITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD’......Page 88
PART 2 RETHINKING WHITENESS......Page 114
2.1 'TO MAKE THE FACTS KNOWN: RACIAL TERROR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE FEMININITY'......Page 116
2.2 ‘IROQUOIS WOMEN, EUROPEAN WOMEN’......Page 148
2.3 ‘WHITE WOMEN AND COLONIALISM: TOWARDS A NON-RECUPERATIVE HISTORY’......Page 174
2.4 'I’M A FEMINIST BUT . . . “OTHER” WOMEN AND POSTNATIONAL FEMINISM’......Page 203
2.5 'THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE: BLACK FEMALE SPECTATORS’......Page 220
2.6 ‘“ON THE THRESHOLD OF WOMAN’S ERA”: LYNCHING, EMPIRE AND SEXUALITY IN BLACK FEMINIST THEORY’......Page 235
PART 3 REDEFINING THE ‘THIRD-WORLD’ SUBJECT......Page 252
3.1 ‘DEAD WOMEN TELL NO TALES: ISSUES OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY, SUBALTERN AGENCY AND TRADITION IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL WRITINGS ON WIDOW IMMOLATION IN INDIA’......Page 254
3.2 ‘END OF EMPIRE: ISLAM, NATIONALISM AND WOMEN IN TURKEY’......Page 276
3.3 ‘HOW NATIVE IS A “NATIVE” ANTHROPOLOGIST?’......Page 298
3.4 'THREE WOMEN’S TEXTS AND A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM’......Page 319
3.5 ‘WHERE HAVE ALL THE NATIVES GONE?’......Page 337
PART 4 SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL RIGHTS......Page 364
4.1 ‘RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS’......Page 366
4.2 ‘FEMINISMS AND UNIVERSALISMS: “UNIVERSAL RIGHTS” AND THE LEGAL DEBATE AROUND THE PRACTICE OF FEMALE EXCISION IN FRANCE’......Page 381
4.3 ‘STATE VERSUS ISLAM: MALAY FAMILIES, WOMEN’S BODIES AND THE BODY POLITIC IN MALAYSIA'......Page 394
4.4 ‘DEBT-BONDAGE AND TRAFFICKING: DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE’......Page 426
4.5 RECONFIGURING HIERARCHIES: THE ILBERT BILL CONTROVERSY, 1883–84......Page 440
4.6 ‘VACATION CRUISES; OR, THE HOMOEROTICS OF ORIENTALISM’......Page 473
PART 5 HAREM AND THE VEIL......Page 500
5.1 'THE MEANING OF SPATIAL BOUNDARIES’......Page 502
5.2 'THE SEEN, THE UNSEEN AND THE IMAGINED: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIVES’......Page 515
5.3 ‘ON VEILING, VISION AND VOYAGE: CROSS-CULTURAL DRESSING AND NARRATIVES OF IDENTITY’......Page 533
5.4 ‘VEILED FANTASIES: CULTURAL AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE IN THE DISCOURSE OF ORIENTALISM’......Page 555
5.5 ‘UNVEILING ALGERIA’......Page 580
5.6 ‘VEILING RESISTANCE’......Page 599
PART 6 GENDER AND POST/COLONIAL SPATIAL RELATIONS......Page 624
6.1 ‘DIASPORA, BORDER AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES’......Page 626
6.2 ‘IMPERIAL LEATHER: RACE, CROSSDRESSING AND THE CULT OF DOMESTICITY’......Page 648
6.3 ‘EARTH HONORING: WESTERN DESIRES AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES’......Page 680
6.4 ‘GENDER AND COLONIAL SPACE’......Page 705
6.5 ‘SPATIAL STORIES UNDER SIEGE: BRITISH WOMEN WRITING FROM LUCKNOW IN 1857......Page 733
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 752
INDEX......Page 760