Third World women and the politics of feminism / edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1955-, Russo, Ann, 1957-, Torres, Lourdes, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1991.
Subjects:	Feminism > Developing countries. Women > Developing countries > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

"I ain't the right kind of feminist" / Cheryl L. West
Cartographies of struggle:third world women and the politics of feminism
Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Charndr Talpade Mohanty
Violence in the other country: China as crisis, spectacle, and woman / Rey Chow
The truth that never hurts: black lesbians in fiction in the 1980's / Barbara Smith
Redrafting morality: the postcolonial state and the Sexual Offences Bill of Trinidad and Tobago / M. Jacqui Alexander
Building politics from personal lives: discussions on sexuality among poor women in Brazil / Carmen Barroso and Cristina Bruschini
Women in Jamaica's urban infornal economy: insights from a Kingston slum / Faye V. Harrison
Women and crime in the United States / Juanita Diaz-Cotto
Women's equality and national liberation / Angela Gilliam
Sexuality and sexual politics: conflicts and contradictions for contemporary women in the Middle East / Evelyne Accad
Gender and Islamic fundamentalism: feminist politics in Iran / Nayereh Tohidi
The construction of the self in U.S. Latina autobiographies / Lourdes Torres
Socialist feminism: our bridge to freedom / Nellie Wong
"We cannot live without our lives": white women, antiracism, and feminism / Ann Russo
Common themes, different contexts: third world women and feminism / Cheryl Johnson-Odim.

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