1st Edition
Women Out of Place The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality
Edited By Brackette Williams
Copyright 1996
288 Pages
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Routledge
290 Pages
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Routledge
290 Pages
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Routledge
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These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in... Read more
Introduction, Brackette F. Williams; Part I Essentialism and Gendered Movements; Chapter 1 Gandhi and Feminized Nationalism in India, Richard G. Fox; Chapter 2 Race/Class/Gender Ideology in Guatemala, Carol A. Smith; Chapter 3 Multiple Alterities, Louisa Schein; Chapter 4 “Fit Citizens for the British Empire?”, Jacqui True; Chapter 5 A Race of Men, A Class of Women, Brackette F. Williams; Part II “Wombs” of Nationalist Respectability and the Problem of Patri-Racial Redemption; Chapter 6 “Feminism, the Murderer of Mothers”, Éva V. Huseby-Darvas; Chapter 7 “And Your Prayers Shall Be Answered Through the Womb of a Woman”, Paulette Pierce, Brackette F. Williams; Chapter 8 Boudoir Politics and the Birthing of the Nation, Paulette Pierce; Chapter 9 “Business Story is Better Than Love”, Deborah S. Rubin;
Biography
Brackette Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
