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Resources for ENGL 5593 / 5763 / 5943 / 6593 / 6803 Postcolonial Feminist Thought
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Arab & Arab American Feminisms : Gender, Violence, & Belonging by Call Number: HQ1729.5 .A733 2011ISBN: 9780815651239Publication Date: 2011In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and justice-centered struggles in Arab communities. Contributors employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and among each other. -
Arab Feminisms: Gender and Equality in the Middle East by ISBN: 9781780766720Publication Date: 2014-01-30This book examines the issues and controversies that are hotly debated and contested when it comes to the concept of feminism and gender in Arab society today. It offers explorations of the theoretical issues at play, the latest developments of feminist discourse, literary studies and sociology, as well as empirical data concerning the situation of women in Arab countries, such as Iraq and Palestine. Arab Feminisms looks at different social and political situations, such as the development of Palestinian feminist discourse in a post-Oslo world, the impact of the civil war in Lebanon on women, and Kuwaiti women's struggles for equality. -
Feminist Postcolonial Theory by ISBN: 1136785205Publication Date: 2003-07-29Feminism 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," "Rethink
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Feminism in IndiaFeminism In India is an award-winning digital intersectional feminist media organisation to learn, educate and develop a feminist sensibility among the youth. It is required to unravel the F-word and demystify the negativity surrounding it. FII amplifies the voices of women and marginalised communities using tools of art, media, culture, technology and community.
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Imperialist Feminism: A Historical Overview by Deepa KumarIn this talk at UC, Berkeley (March, 2013), Dr. Kumar argues that the West has often used the liberation of brown women as an excuse for empire. She debunks this rescue narrative starting with the Afghan war and then going back to 19th century colonial narratives in regard to Muslim women.
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"The West Believe They Taught Us Feminism": The Guardian News‘Indian women were dressing up and fighting wars hundreds of years before there were any suffragettes,’ says Sohaila Abdulali, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape. Backstage at the All About Women festival held in Sydney in March, Guardian Australia posed the same question to Abdulali and three other diverse women: what do outsiders get wrong about your experience of feminism? For Leta Hong Fincher, an expert in China’s emerging feminist movement, it’s that a movement exists there at all.
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Borderlands by ISBN: 1879960575Publication Date: 1999-05-01Second edition of Gloria Anzaldúa's major work, with a new critical introduction by Chicano Studies scholar and new reflections by Anzaldúa. -
This Bridge Called My Back by ISBN: 1438454384Publication Date: 2015-03-01Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism. “These essays and poems do more than just revisit the hopes, fears, frustrations, and accomplishments of women of color circa 1981; they also shed light on concerns women continue to face today … There are lines of poetry here sure to stir the imagination and connect with all ages, races, and genders … This Bridge Called My Back deserves to be picked up by a new generation of radical women.” ― ForeWord Reviews -
The Transit of Empire : Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Call Number: E91 .B97 2011ebISBN: 0816678707Publication Date: 2011-01-01Examines how OC IndiannessOCO has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire -
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post Colonial Literatures by ISBN: 0415280206Publication Date: 2002-10-25The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture. The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language. This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis, but for its accessibility for readers new to the field. Now with an additional chapter and an updated bibliography, The Empire Writes Back is essential for contemporary post-colonial studies. -
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Call Number: HQ1785 .M34 2011ISBN: 1400839912Publication Date: 2011-10-03A groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries?
