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Third World women and the politics of feminism

Russo, Ann, 1957-, Torres, Lourdes, 1959-, Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-

Year: c1991.

Publisher: Indiana University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Preface

"I Ain't the Right Kind of Feminist"

Introduction Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

1. Power, Representation, and Feminist Critique

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Violence in the Other Country: China as Crisis, Spectacle, and Woman

The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s

2. Public Policy, the State, and Ideologies of Gender

Redrafting Morality: The Postcolonial State and the Sexual Offences Bill of Trinidad and Tobago

Building Politics from Personal Lives: Discussions on Sexuality among Poor Women in Brazil

Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy: Insights from a Kingston Slum

Women and Crime in the United States

3. National Liberation and Sexual Politics

Women's Equality and National Liberation

Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women in the Middle East

Gender and Islamic Fundamentalism: Feminist Politics in Iran

4. Race, Identity, and Feminist Struggles

The Construction of the Self in U.S. Latina Autobiographies

Socialist Feminism: Our Bridge to Freedom

"We Cannot Live without Our Lives": White Women, Antiracism, and Feminism

Common Themes, Different Contexts: Third World Women and Feminism

Biographical Notes

Index

reviews

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Title:

Third World women and the politics of feminism : edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres.

Author:

Russo, Ann, 1957-; Torres, Lourdes, 1959-; Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-

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Third World women and the politics of feminism : edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres.
Russo, Ann, 1957-, Torres, Lourdes, 1959-, Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1991.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03313

Subject Headings:

• Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
• Feminism -- Developing countries

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