Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader

Cover......Page 1
FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL THEORY: A READER......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
PART I GENDERING COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM/RACIALISING FEMINISM......Page 36
1.1 \'THE MASTER’S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER’S HOUSE’......Page 38
1.2 ‘NOTES TOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION’......Page 42
1.3 \'THE USES OF FUNDAMENTALISM’......Page 56
1.4 ‘UNDER WESTERN EYES: FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP AND COLONIAL DISCOURSES’......Page 62
1.5 ‘US THIRD-WORLD FEMINISM: THE THEORY AND METHOD OF OPPOSITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD’......Page 88
PART 2 RETHINKING WHITENESS......Page 114
2.1 \'TO MAKE THE FACTS KNOWN: RACIAL TERROR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE FEMININITY\'......Page 116
2.2 ‘IROQUOIS WOMEN, EUROPEAN WOMEN’......Page 148
2.3 ‘WHITE WOMEN AND COLONIALISM: TOWARDS A NON-RECUPERATIVE HISTORY’......Page 174
2.4 \'I’M A FEMINIST BUT . . . “OTHER” WOMEN AND POSTNATIONAL FEMINISM’......Page 203
2.5 \'THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE: BLACK FEMALE SPECTATORS’......Page 220
2.6 ‘“ON THE THRESHOLD OF WOMAN’S ERA”: LYNCHING, EMPIRE AND SEXUALITY IN BLACK FEMINIST THEORY’......Page 235
PART 3 REDEFINING THE ‘THIRD-WORLD’ SUBJECT......Page 252
3.1 ‘DEAD WOMEN TELL NO TALES: ISSUES OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY, SUBALTERN AGENCY AND TRADITION IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL WRITINGS ON WIDOW IMMOLATION IN INDIA’......Page 254
3.2 ‘END OF EMPIRE: ISLAM, NATIONALISM AND WOMEN IN TURKEY’......Page 276
3.3 ‘HOW NATIVE IS A “NATIVE” ANTHROPOLOGIST?’......Page 298
3.4 \'THREE WOMEN’S TEXTS AND A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM’......Page 319
3.5 ‘WHERE HAVE ALL THE NATIVES GONE?’......Page 337
PART 4 SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL RIGHTS......Page 364
4.1 ‘RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS’......Page 366
4.2 ‘FEMINISMS AND UNIVERSALISMS: “UNIVERSAL RIGHTS” AND THE LEGAL DEBATE AROUND THE PRACTICE OF FEMALE EXCISION IN FRANCE’......Page 381
4.3 ‘STATE VERSUS ISLAM: MALAY FAMILIES, WOMEN’S BODIES AND THE BODY POLITIC IN MALAYSIA\'......Page 394
4.4 ‘DEBT-BONDAGE AND TRAFFICKING: DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE’......Page 426
4.5 RECONFIGURING HIERARCHIES: THE ILBERT BILL CONTROVERSY, 1883–84......Page 440
4.6 ‘VACATION CRUISES; OR, THE HOMOEROTICS OF ORIENTALISM’......Page 473
PART 5 HAREM AND THE VEIL......Page 500
5.1 \'THE MEANING OF SPATIAL BOUNDARIES’......Page 502
5.2 \'THE SEEN, THE UNSEEN AND THE IMAGINED: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIVES’......Page 515
5.3 ‘ON VEILING, VISION AND VOYAGE: CROSS-CULTURAL DRESSING AND NARRATIVES OF IDENTITY’......Page 533
5.4 ‘VEILED FANTASIES: CULTURAL AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE IN THE DISCOURSE OF ORIENTALISM’......Page 555
5.5 ‘UNVEILING ALGERIA’......Page 580
5.6 ‘VEILING RESISTANCE’......Page 599
PART 6 GENDER AND POST/COLONIAL SPATIAL RELATIONS......Page 624
6.1 ‘DIASPORA, BORDER AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES’......Page 626
6.2 ‘IMPERIAL LEATHER: RACE, CROSSDRESSING AND THE CULT OF DOMESTICITY’......Page 648
6.3 ‘EARTH HONORING: WESTERN DESIRES AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES’......Page 680
6.4 ‘GENDER AND COLONIAL SPACE’......Page 705
6.5 ‘SPATIAL STORIES UNDER SIEGE: BRITISH WOMEN WRITING FROM LUCKNOW IN 1857......Page 733
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 752
INDEX......Page 760