| Description |
xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
"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 |
| Analysis |
Decolonisation |
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Developing countries |
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Feminism |
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International comparisons |
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Overseas item |
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Political dissent |
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Sexuality |
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Social conditions |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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Feminism -- Developing countries.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Developing countries.
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| Author |
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-
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Russo, Ann, 1957-
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Torres, Lourdes, 1959-
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
9004003510 |
| ISBN |
0253206324 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0253338735 (alk. paper) |
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