Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
10 best books like Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Trinh T. Minh-ha): Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
| Author | Maria Mies |
| ISBN | 1856497356 |
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labor and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers...
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
| Author | Barbara Smith |
| ISBN | 0813527538 |
The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminists and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated lists of contributor...
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
| Author | Paula Gunn Allen |
| ISBN | 0807046175 |
First off, I miss her. Dearly. Anyone who knew Paula (at UCLA, UC Berkeley) knew what a wonderful
scholar she was. You don't stay at UCB or UCLA for long with under-performance.
She did plenty of research for this text and it held up fairly well in its category. I'm somewhat disappointed that...
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire
| Author | Sonia Shah |
| ISBN | 0896085759 |
From the global trade in Asian women workers to the elitism of the white feminist movement, no ground is sacred. These women warrriors don't mince words but speak with fierce conviction and surprising insight.This book showcases the growing politicization of Asian American women and their emerging...
| Author | Incite! Women of Color Against Violence |
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them--means...
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
| Author | Beverly Guy-Sheftall |
| ISBN | 1565842561 |
I enjoyed this reader but I didn't appreciate that it was written ONLY for African-American women. The anthology would have been more comprehensive had it included the experiences of Black women around the world. Are they not connected to African-American woman's experience here in the states?
There's...
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
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When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not the norm for all of us, and just because we’ve got some new and hot language lately in equity-seeking movements like feminism...
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 1879960109 |
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0452274249 |
The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
| Author | Cynthia Enloe |
| ISBN | 0520229126 |
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes—governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil—and shows that...
| Author | Anne McClintock |
| ISBN | 0415908906 |
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between...
| Author | Gayatri Gopinath |
| ISBN | 0822335131 |
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity,...
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
| Author | M. Jacqui Alexander |
| ISBN | 0822336456 |
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
| Author | Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
| ISBN | 0253206324 |
"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice
..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the...
Alchemy of Race and Rights
| Author | Patricia J. Williams |
| ISBN | 0674014715 |
Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of...
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
| Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| ISBN | 0415389569 |
In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies...
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
| Author | Saba Mahmood |
| ISBN | 0691086958 |
Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement...
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896083853 |
bell hook's fourth book crosses disciplinary boundaries in major debates on postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and the politics of race and gender. She values postmodernism's insights while warning that the fashionable infatuation with "discourse" about "difference" is dangerously detachable...
