Spoils of War

Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions

Foreword by Chela Sandoval Contributions by Janet Afary, Berenice A. Carroll, Lewis R. Gordon professor of philosophy and Africana studies, University of Connecticut, Joy A. James, Jacqueline M. Martinez, Shahrzad Mojab, Valérie K. Orlando University of Maryland, Marjorie Salvodon, T Denean Sharpley-Whiting Hamilton College Edited by Renée T. White, Denean T. Sharpley-Whiting

Publication date:

29 August 1997

Length of book:

208 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780847686049

Women of color remain arguably the most economically, politically, and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of "war," experienced daily by women of color.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Part 3 Part I. Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe
Chapter 4 Ella Baker "Black Women's Work" and Activist Intellectuals
Chapter 5 Struggling Along the Race-Gender Academic Divide
Part 6 Part II. Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence
Chapter 7 In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women
Chapter 8 When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability/ Intraracial Sexual Violence/ and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerald Tyson
Part 9 Part III. Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era. Women and the Gulf War: A Crit
Chapter 10 Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism
Part 11 Part IV. Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity/ Exile/ and Gender
Chapter 12 Women/ War/ and Autobiography/ and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour la fantasia
Chapter 13 Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in le baobab fou
Chapter 14 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands
Chapter 15 Afterword

A diverse collection of interdisciplinary voices that eloquently testifies to the ongoing historical and transnational resistance waged by women of color around the world against the many and varied forces that oppress them.