Overview

These essays systematically interrogate the ideological linkages between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial or cultural redemption.

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Author:   Brackette Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780415914963

ISBN 10:   0415914965
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   07 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Brackette F. Williams; Part I Essentialism and Gendered Movements; Chapter 1 Gandhi and Feminized Nationalism in India, Richard G. Fox; Chapter 2 Race/Class/Gender Ideology in Guatemala, Carol A. Smith; Chapter 3 Multiple Alterities, Louisa Schein; Chapter 4 “Fit Citizens for the British Empire?”, Jacqui True; Chapter 5 A Race of Men, A Class of Women, Brackette F. Williams; Part II “Wombs” of Nationalist Respectability and the Problem of Patri-Racial Redemption; Chapter 6 “Feminism, the Murderer of Mothers”, Éva V. Huseby-Darvas; Chapter 7 “And Your Prayers Shall Be Answered Through the Womb of a Woman”, Paulette Pierce, Brackette F. Williams; Chapter 8 Boudoir Politics and the Birthing of the Nation, Paulette Pierce; Chapter 9 “Business Story is Better Than Love”, Deborah S. Rubin;

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Brackette Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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