Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice

by France Winddance Twine, Kathleen M. Blee

Overview

A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the perception that feminism is a "Western" ideology and how effective are their methods? What opportunities does globalization bring for cross-cultural organizing?
From essays on the race and gender issues in organizing exotic dancers to resistance art in Africa and the U.S., this timely and necessary anthology will be sure to spark debate and controversy.
Contributors: Angela Davis, Kathleen Blee, France Winddance Twine, Heater Merrill, Veronica Magar, Siobhan Brooks, Delores Walters, Michelle Rosenthal, Ellen Kaye Scott, andrea breen, Yoshiko Nozaki, Sohera Syeda, Becky Thompson, Paola Bacchetta, Carolyn Martin Shaw, Eileen O'Brien and Michael Armato, Jane Freedman, Cathleen Armstead, Ashwini Deshpande, and Minelle Mahtani.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814798546
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author and a co-editor of ten books, including Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy.

Kathleen M. Blee is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of No Middle Ground, also available from NYU Press.

Editorial Reviews

"The editors have done an admirable job of drawing together works of diversely positioned authors, each of whom approach the topic of feminism and antiracism from their own unique personal and disciplinary standpoint."

Anne Wagner

"Given all the talk about globalization as the engine of homogenization, it is a relief to find in these collected essays an encyclopedia of antiracist and feminist strategies for social movement today. Rarely does the local emerge as so textured in a context that emphasizes the complexity to the global itself."

Robyn Wiegman

"Given all the talk about globalization as the engine of homogenization, it is a relief to find in these collected essays an encyclopedia of antiracist and feminist strategies for social movement today. Rarely does the local emerge as so textured in a context that emphasizes the complexity to the global itself."

-Robyn Wiegman,Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies, Duke University

"This valuable anthology expands out understanding of feminism, anti-racism—and by extension racism itself—through richly interdisciplinary, cross cultural accounts of diverse forms of activism. The authors provide moving testimony to the importance of linking feminist and anti-racist struggles and the complexities involved in doing so."

-Amrita Basu,Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College

"Twine and Blee break new ground with case studies of international, feminist, and antiracist struggles."

-Feminist Collections

”The editors have done an admirable job of drawing together works of diversely positioned authors, each of whom approach the topic of feminism and antiracism from their own unique personal and disciplinary standpoint.”

-Anne Wagner,Dept of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto

"Although much contemporary feminist scholarship stresses the way gender dynamics intersect with those of race and class, it is often difficult to link those abstractions to concrete struggles. In this remarkable collection, authors from different locations, different disciplines, and different visions write about such efforts with an honesty that is always refreshing, sometimes painful. Whether describing successes in Indian slums, conflicts in California, or campaigns in France, the articles in this collection offer important insights into strategic possibilities—and pitfalls—for progressive feminist organizing."

-Gay Seidman,Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

From the Publisher

"This valuable anthology expands out understanding of feminism, anti-racismand by extension racism itselfthrough richly interdisciplinary, cross cultural accounts of diverse forms of activism. The authors provide moving testimony to the importance of linking feminist and anti-racist struggles and the complexities involved in doing so."

Amrita Basu

"Twine and Blee break new ground with case studies of international, feminist, and antiracist struggles."

Feminist Collections