Feminism and Antiracism : : International Struggles for Justice / / ed. by France Winddance Twine, Kathleen M. Blee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Armato, Michael P.,; Armstead, Cathleen L.,; Bacchetta, Paola,; Blee, Kathleen M.,; Breen, Andrea,; Brooks, Siobhan,; Deshpande, Ashwini,; Freedman, Jane,; Magar, Veronica,; Mahtani, Minelle,; Merrill, Heather,; Nozaki, Yoshiko,; O’Brien, Eileen,; Romero, Mary,; Rosenthal, Michelle,; Scott, Ellen Kaye,; Shaw, Carolyn Martin,; Syeda, Sohera,; Thompson, Becky,; Twine, France Winddance,; Walters, Delores M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Blee, Kathleen M.,; Twine, France Winddance,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the perception that feminism is a "Western" ideology and how effective are their methods? What opportunities does globalization bring for cross-cultural organizing? From essays on the race and gender issues in organizing exotic dancers to resistance art in Africa and the U.S., this timely and necessary anthology will be sure to spark debate and controversy. Contributors: Angela Davis, Kathleen Blee, France Winddance Twine, Heater Merrill, Veronica Magar, Siobhan Brooks, Delores Walters, Michelle Rosenthal, Ellen Kaye Scott, andrea breen, Yoshiko Nozaki, Sohera Syeda, Becky Thompson, Paola Bacchetta, Carolyn Martin Shaw, Eileen O'Brien and Michael Armato, Jane Freedman, Cathleen Armstead, Ashwini Deshpande, and Minelle Mahtani.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contributors -- IntroductionL Feminist Antiracist Maps: Transnational Contours -- Part I Feminist Spaces, Antiracist Maps -- 1 Making Space for Antiracist Feminism in Northern Italy -- 2 Resisting Domestic Violence and Caste Inequality: All-Women Courts in India -- 3 Exotic Dancing and Unionizing: The Challenges of Feminist and Antiracist Organizing at the Lusty Lady Theater -- 4 Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen -- Part II Feminist Talk, Antiracist Dialogues -- 5 Danger Talk: Race and Feminist Empowerment in the New South Africa -- 6 From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: Dilemmas in Antiracist Activism in California -- 7 Between the Covers: Feminist, Antiracist, and Queer Performance Art in Australia -- 8 Feminism, Nationalism, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy over “Comfort Women” -- Part III Coalitions at Work: Transgressive, Transracial, Transnational -- 9 Coalition Politics in Organizing for Mumia Abu-Jamal -- 10 Extraordinary Alliances in Crisis Situations:Women against Hindu Nationalism in India -- 11 Working with Feminists in Zimbabwe: A Black American’s Experience of Transnational Alliances -- 12 Building Connections between Antiracism and Feminism: Antiracist Women and Profeminist Men -- Part IV Faith and Other Unfinished Feminisms -- 13 “L’affaire des Foulards”: Problems of Defining a Feminist Antiracist Strategy in French Schools -- 14 Memorializing Racist Massacres: Faith versus Feminism in Florida -- 15 Casting Off Servitude: Assessing Caste and Gender Inequality in India -- 16 Mapping the Meanings of “Racism” and “Feminism” among Women Television Broadcast Journalists in Canada -- Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Feminist, Racist, and Antiracist Action -- Appendix B: Selected List of Feminist and Antiracist Organizations -- Index