Women Out of Place (eBook, ePUB)

The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality
Redaktion: Williams, Brackette

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Women Out of Place: the Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality investigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial and cultural redemption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135234836
• Artikelnr.: 40100072

Autorenporträt

Brackette Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

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