New Frontiers in Women's Studies: Knowledge, Identity and NationalismMary Maynard, June Purvis Taylor & Francis, 1996 - 256 pages This text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies. |
Contents
Identity Migration and Nationalism | 1 |
Towards an Antiracist | 11 |
Anticolonial Subjects? Postcolonial Subjects? | 30 |
What Happened to Feminist Politics in Gender Training? | 51 |
Womens Writing | 63 |
Reassessing Representations of Emmeline | 76 |
Reflections | 96 |
Possibilities for Womens Studies in Postcommunist | 113 |
Resituating Discourses of Whiteness and Asianness | 127 |
Experiences of Diaspora | 151 |
The Home of Our Mothers and Our Birthright | 164 |
Women Nationalism and Danger | 187 |
Gender Colonialism and Nationalism Women | 203 |
East German Women Five Years after the Wende | 220 |
Notes on Contributors | 243 |
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