Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Renée T. White is assistant professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of Black Texts & Textuality (Rowman & Littlefield) and Putting Risk in Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield). Sharpley-Whiting and White also co-edited Fanon: A Critical Reader.
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is assistant professor of African-American studies at Purdue University, and the author of Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
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.
— Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism