Feminism and the Politics of Difference

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-00915-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Versions of Jacki Huggins's 'Pretty deadly tidda business' have appeared in Hecate vol. 17, no. 1; 1991, I lndyk, ed.; Memory (Southerly 3, 1991) HarperCollins, Sydney, 1991; Second Degree Tampering, Sybylla Feminist Press, Melbourne, 1992. Laleen Jayamanne's 'Love me tender, love me true. ' was first published in Framework 38139, 1992. A version of Smaro Kamboureli's 'Of black angels and melancholy lovers' appeared in Freelance (Saskatchewan Writers' Guild), xxi, 5 (Dec. 1991-Jan. 1992). Roxana Ng's 'Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism' appeared in Race, Class, Gender: Bonds and Barriers, Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes: A Canadian Annual no. 5, 1989. Trinh Minh-ha's 'All-owning spectatorship' has also appeared in her collection of essays When the Moon Waxes Red, Routledge, NY, 1991.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunew, Sneja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Contributors –Introduction / Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman -- 1 Feminism and the politics of irreducible differences: Multiculturalism/ethnicity/race / Sneja Gunew -- 2 'Feminisms, reading, postmodernisms': Rethinking complicity / Vicki Kirby -- 3 'Authentic voice': Anti-racist politics in Canadian feminist publishing and literary production / Daiva Stasiulis --4 Pretty deadly tidda business / Jackie Huggins -- 5 'Love me tender, love me true, never let me go. A Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night / Cries-A Rural Tragedy Laleen Jayamanne -- 6 Changing contexts: Globalization, migration and feminism in New Zealand / Wendy Larner -- 7 Colonizing women: The maternal body and empire / Margaret jolly -- 8 Timing differences and investing in futures in multicultural (women's) writing / Efi Hatzimanolis -- 9 Of black angels and melancholy lovers: Ethnicity and writing in Canada / Smaro Kamboureli -- 10 All-owning spectatorship / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- 11 Little girls were little boys: Displaced femininity in the representation of homosexuality in Japanese girls' comics / Midori Matsui -- 12 Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism / Roxana Ng – 13 Slash and suture: Post/colonialism in 'Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza' / Annamarie ]agose -- 14 Voice and representation in the politics of difference / Anna Yeatman – Index.

Über Autor(innen)

University and has recently accepted an appointment at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She has edited or co-edited four anthologies of women's and multicultural writings. She is the editor of Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct and A Reader in Feminist Knowledge (Routledge, 1990). She has published numerous critical essays (nationally and internationally) on feminist literary theory and on multiculturalism in its various formations. She co-edited Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations (1992) and was one of the compilers of A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers (1992). Anna Yeatman was foundation professor of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato, 1991-93. She is professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research interests cover feminist theory, the implications of globalization for the polity, the restructuring of the professions and higher education. She has undertaken a number of public policy consultancies, including two research reports for the Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs. Recent publications include Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, Allen & Unwin 1990; editor and contributor to a special issue of Social Analysis (no. 30, 1991) on 'Postmodern Critical Theorizing'; and a book on Postmodernism and the Revisioning of the Political, forthcoming Routledge, New York 1993.