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Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice
Contributor(s): Twine, France Winddance (Editor), Blee, Kathleen M. (Editor)
ISBN: 0814798543     ISBN-13: 9780814798546
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE:   $88.11  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2001
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Annotation: "Twine and Blee break new ground with case studies of international, feminist, and antiracist struggles"
-- "Feminist Collections"

The editors have done an admirable job of drawing together works of diversely positioned authors, each of whom approach the topic of feminism and antiracism from their own unique personal and disciplinary standpoint.
--Anne Wagner, Dept of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto

"Focuses on what is happening in the "streets," in feminist, antiracist social movements around the globe."
-- "Signs"

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

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword by Mary Romero xiii

Contributorsxvii

Introduction: Feminist Antiracist Maps:

Transnational Contours 1
Kathleen M. Blee and France Winddance Twine

part i Feminist Spaces, Antiracist Maps
1 Making Space for Antiracist Feminism in Northern Italy 17
Heather Merrill

2 Resisting Domestic Violence and Caste Inequality:
All-Women Courts in India 37
Veronica Magar

3 Exotic Dancing and Unionizing: The Challenges of
Feminist and Antiracist Organizing at the
Lusty Lady Theater 59
Siobhan Brooks

4 Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen 71
Delores M. Walters

part ii Feminist Talk, Antiracist Dialogues
5 Danger Talk: Race and Feminist Empowerment in the

New South Africa 97
Michelle Rosenthal

6 From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance:
Dilemmas in Antiracist Activism in California 125
Ellen Kaye Scott

7 Between the Covers: Feminist, Antiracist, and
Queer Performance Art in Australia 150
Andrea Breen

8 Feminism, Nationalism, and the Japanese Textbook
Controversy over Comfort Women 170
Yoshiko Nozaki

part iii Coalitions at Work: Transgressive, Transracial, Transnational
9 Coalition Politics in Organizing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

193
Sohera Syeda and Becky Thompson

10 Extraordinary Alliances in Crisis Situations: Womenagainst Hindu Nationalism in India 220
Paola Bacchetta

11 Working with Feminists in Zimbabwe: A BlackAmerican's Experience of Transnational Alliances 250
Carolyn Martin Shaw

12 Building Connections between Antiracism andFeminism: Antiracist Women and Profeminist Men 277
Eileen O'Brien and Michael P. Armato

part iv Faith and Other Unfinished Feminisms
13 L'affaire des Foulards: Problems of Defininga

Feminist Antiracist Strategy in French Schools 295
Jane Freedman
14 Memorializing Racist Massacres: Faith versus

Feminism in Florida 313
Cathleen L. Armstead

15 Casting Off Servitude: Assessing Caste and Gender
Inequality in India 328
Ashwini Deshpande

16 Mapping the Meanings of Racism and Feminismamong Women Television Broadcast Journalists in Canada 349
Minelle Mahtani

Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Feminist, Racist, and Antiracist Actions 367

Appendix B: Selected List of Feminist and

Antiracist Organizations 373

Index 381
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
- Law | Civil Rights
Dewey: 305.42
LCCN: 2001002007
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.06" W x 9.22" (1.47 lbs) 414 pages
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Twine, France Winddance: -

France Winddance Twine is Associate Professor at the University Of California, Santa Barbara. She is an editor of Racing Research, Researching Race, available from NYU Press.

Blee, Kathleen M.: -

Kathleen M. Blee is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of No Middle Ground, also available from NYU Press.