Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

Gloria Wekker, Geraldine Heng, Amina Mama, Annanya Bhattacharjee, Evelynn Hammonds, Kavita Punjabi, Paula Moya, M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty.

Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, charts the underlying theoretical perspectives and organization practices of the different varieties of feminism that take on questions of colonialism, imperialism, and the repressive rule of colonial, post-colonial and advanced capitalist nation-states. It provides a comparative, relational, historically grounded conception of feminist praxis that differs markedly from the liberal pluralist, multicultural understanding that sheapes some of the dominant version of Euro-American feminism. As a whole, the collection poses a unique challenge to the naturalization of gender based in the experiences, histories and practices of Euro-American women.

Colonial Legacies, Capitalist State Practice, and Feminist Movements; Chapter 1 Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity, Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Chapter 2 “A Great Way to Fly”: Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism, Geraldine Heng; Chapter 3 Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa, Amina Mama; Chapter 4 Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: An Anatomy of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy, M. Jacqui Alexander; Chapter 5 Civil Rights versus Sovereignty: Native American Women in Life and Land Struggles, Marie Anna Jaimes Guerrero; Crafting Selves, Reimagining Identities and Cultures; Chapter 6 Postmodernism, “Realism,” and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism, Paula M. L. Moya; Chapter 7 Probing “Morality” and State Violence: Feminist Values and Communicative Interaction in Prison Testimonios in India and Argentina, Kavita Panjabi; Chapter 8 Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence, Evelynn M. Hammonds; Chapter 9 Post–Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema, Ella Shohat; Anatomies of Organizing, Building Feminist Futures; Chapter 10 Ring Ding in a Tight Corner: Sistren, Collective Democracy, and the Organization of Cultural Production, Honor Ford-Smith; Chapter 11 Looking at Ourselves: The Women's Movement in Hyderabad, Vasanth Kannabiran, Kalpana Kannabiran; Chapter 12 The Dynamics of WINning: An Analysis of Women in Nigeria (WIN), Ayesha M. Imam; Chapter 13 The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community, Anannya Bhattacharjee; Chapter 14 One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency, Gloria Wekker;

M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty