edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 338 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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"I ain't the right kind of feminist" / Cheryl L. West -- Cartographies of struggle : third world women and the politics of feminism -- Under western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Violence in the other country : China as crisis, spectacle, and woman / Rey Chow -- The truth that never hurts : black lesbians in fiction in the 1980's / Barbara Smith -- Redrafting morality : the postcolonial state and the Sexual Offences Bill of Trinidad and Tobago / M. Jacqui Alexander -- Building politics from personal lives : discussions on sexuality among poor women in Brazil / Carmen Barroso and Cristina Bruschini -- Women in Jamaica's urban informal economy : insights from a Kingston slum / Faye V. Harrison -- Women and crime in the United States / Juanita Diaz-Cotto
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Women's equality and national liberation / Angela Gilliam -- Sexuality and sexual politics : conflicts and contradictions for contemporary women in the Middle East / Evelyne Accad -- Gender and Islamic fundamentalism : feminist politics in Iran / Nayereh Tohidi -- The construction of the self in U.S. Latina autobiographies / Lourdes Torres -- Socialist feminism : our bridge to freedom / Nellie Wong -- "We cannot live without our lives": white women, antiracism, and feminism / Ann Russo -- Common themes, different contexts : third world women and feminism / Cheryl Johnson-Odim