Feminist Postcolonial Theory

Reina Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Gendering Orientalism: Race, Representation and Femininity (Routledge 1996) and co-editor, with Peter Horne, of Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures (1996). Sara Mills is author of books on feminism and postcolonialism and also on feminist linguistics and text analysis, including Discourses of Difference: Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism (1991) and Feminist Stylistics (1997).

Introduction; Section 1: Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalising Feminism; 1.1 Audre Lorde: 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'; 1.2 Adrienne Rich: 'Notes Towards a Politics of Location'; 1.3 Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis: 'The Uses of Fundamentalism'; 1.4 Chandra Talpade Mohanty: 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses'; 1.5 Chela Sandoval: 'US Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World'; Section 2: Rethinking Whiteness; 2.1 Vron Ware: 'To Make the Facts Known: Racial Terror and the Construction of White Femininity'; 2.2 Natalie Zemon Davis: 'Iroquois Women, European Women'; 2.3 Jane Haggis: 'White Women and Colonialism: Towards a Non-Recuperative History'; 2.4 Ien Ang: 'I'm a Feminist but! :'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism'; 2.5 bell hooks: 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators'; 2.6 Hazel V. Carby: 'On the Threshold of Women's Era: Lynching, Empire and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory'; Section 3: Redefining The 'Third World' Subject; 3.1 Ania Loomba: 'Dead Women Tell No tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-colonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India'; 3.2 Deniz Kandiyoti: 'End of Empire: Islam, Nationalism and Women in Turkey'; 3.3 Kirin Narayan: 'How Native is a 'Native' Anthropologist?'; 3.4 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism'; 3.5 Rey Chow: 'Where Have all the Natives Gone?'; Section 4: Sexuality and Sexual Rights; 4.1 Angela Davis: 'Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights'; 4.2 Francoise Lionnet: 'Feminisms and Universalisms: 'Universal Rights' and the Legal Debate Around the Practice of Female Excision in France'; 4.3 Aihwa Ong: 'State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies and the Body Politic in Malaysia'; 4.4 Alison Murray: 'Debt-Bondage and Trafficking: Don't Believe the Hype'; 4.5 Mrinalini Sinha: 'Reconfiguring Hierarchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84'; 4.6 Joseph A. Boone: 'Vacation Cruises; or, The Homoerotics of Orientalism'; Section 5: Harem and the Veil; 5.1 Fatima Mernissi: 'The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries'; 5.2 Sarah Graham-Brown: 'The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined: Private and Public Lives'; 5.3 Reina Lewis: 'On Veiling, Vision and Voyage: Cross-cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity'; 5.4 Meyda Ye.