Feminist Postcolonial Theory

Feminist Postcolonial Theory
Author: Reina Lewis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415942751

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law

Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law
Author: Susan Harris Rimmer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2019
Genre: LAW
ISBN: 1785363921

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For almost 30 years, scholars and advocates have been exploring the interaction and potential between the rights and well-being of women and the promise of international law. This collection posits that the next frontier for international law is increasing its relevance, beneficence and impact for women in the developing world, and to deal with a much wider range of issues through a feminist lens.

Postcolonial Representations of Women

Postcolonial Representations of Women
Author: Rachel Bailey Jones
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2011-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 940071551X

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In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education received in classrooms as well as ‘unofficial’ education ingested via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as two-dimensional stereotypes. The text analyzes both current and historical colonial representations of women in a pedagogical context. In doing so, it seeks to recast our conception of what ‘difference’ is, challenging historical, patriarchal gender relations with their stereotypical representations that continue to marginalize minority populations in the first world and billions of women elsewhere. These distorted images, the book argues, can be subverted using the semiology provided by postcolonialism and transnational feminism and the work of contemporary artists who rethink and recontextualize the visual codes of colonialism. These resistive images, created by women who challenge and subvert patriarchal modes of representation, can be used to create educational environments that provide an alternative view of women of non-western origin.

Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology

Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology
Author: Pui-lan Kwok
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664228835

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The burgeoning field of postcolonial studies argues that most theology has been formed in dominant cultures, laden intrinsically with imperializing structures. An essential task facing theology is thus to "decolonize" the mind and free Christianity from colonizing bias and structures. Here, in this truly groundbreaking study, highly respected feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan offers the first full-length theological treatment of what it means to do postcolonial feminist theology. She explains her methodological basis and explores several specific topics, including Christology, pluralism, and creation.

Gender and Colonial Space

Gender and Colonial Space
Author: Sara Mills
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719053351

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"The aim of this book is to interrogate the process whereby spatial relations are constituted as gendered, raced and classed within the colonial and imperial context." --introd.

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory
Author: Ellen Rooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139826638

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Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.

Feminist Postcolonial Theory

Feminist Postcolonial Theory
Author: Reina Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 767
Release: 2003
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781474470254

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The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it.

Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times
Author: Heidi Mirza
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317987187

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This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as racism in the media, exclusion in higher education, and critical multiculturalism in schools. Introducing new debates on transglobal female identity and cultures of resistance the book asks: How does black and postcolonial feminisms illuminate race and gender identity in new global times? How are race, gender and class inequalities reproduced and resisted in educational sites? How do women of colour experience race and gender differences in schools and universities? This book is a must for political and social commentators, academic researchers and student audiences interested in new feminist visions for new global times. This book was published as a special issue of Race, Ethnicity and Education.

Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture
Author: Fuminobu Murakami
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134246226

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Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work. Presenting outstanding analysis of Japanese intellectuals and writers who have received little attention in the West, the book also includes an extensive and comprehensive bibliography making it essential reading for those studying Japanese literature, Japanese studies and Japanese thinkers.

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues
Author: Redi Koobak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1000361527

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Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition - historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.