Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice

Kathleen M. Blee, France Winddance Twine

NYU Press, 2001 - Law - 389 pages

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.

Contents

• Feminist Antiracist Maps: 1
• Making Space for Antiracist Feminism in Northern Italy: 17
• 37: 37
• The Challenges: 59
• Women Healthcare and Social Reform in Yemen: 71
• Race and Feminist Empowerment in: 97
• Queer Performance Art in Australia: 150
• Feminism Nationalism and the Japanese Textbook: 170
• Transgressive Transracial: 190
• Women: 220
• A Black: 250
• Building Connections between Antiracism: 277
• Faith and Other Unfinished Feminisms: 292
• Faith versus: 313
• Assessing Caste and Gender: 328
• Mapping the Meanings of Racism and Feminism: 349
• Chronology of Selected Feminist Racist: 367
• Index: 381

Popular passages

Page xvii - Dunn is associate professor of sociology and director of women's studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.‎

About the author

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. France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author and a co-editor of ten books, including Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice
• Editors: Kathleen M. Blee, France Winddance Twine
• Publisher: NYU Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0814798551, 9780814798553
• Length: 389 pages
• Subjects: Law / Civil Rights; Political Science / General; Social Science / Discrimination; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / General