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Book SynopsisEmphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this title heralds an approach to studying feminist history.
Trade Review"A stimulating new collection ... I am glad to have read this volume... The book will occupy a place of distinction on my office shelf." -- Valerie M. Hudson H-Diplo
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword: The Challenges of Constructing a Transnational History PART 1. CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 1. Amy Richlin: Feminist Thought before the Renaissance 2. Susan Bordo: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des femmes 3. Monica Diaz: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 4. Ruth Perry: Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women PART 2. ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS: NINETEENTH TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. Ellen Rosenman: Sexual Politics in England and India: The Case of Prostitution 6. Ellen Rosenman, Jill Abney, and Kathi Kern: Women's Suffrage: Transnational Connections PART 3. TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE "WOMEN'S LIBERATION": NINETEENTH TO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Jacqueline Couti: The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 8. Pramila Venkateswaran: Locating the Feminist Spirit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in India: Tarabai Shinde and Lalitambika Antarjanam 9. Liang Luo: Problems of Translation and Transnational Feminisms: On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 10. Ellen Rosenman, A Room of One's Own in Transracial Perspective 11. Susan Bordo: Simone de Beauvoir: The Feminist Philosopher as Other PART 4. DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM: 1955--1975 12. Karen W. Tice: The "Personal Politics" of Class 13. Susan Bordo: Feminists Reimagine the Body 14. Cheryl R. Hopson: The U.S. Women's Liberation Movement and Black Feminist "Sisterhood" 15. Maylei Blackwell: Triple Jeopardy: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 16. Ann M. Ciasullo: Strained Sisterhood: Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement 17. Norma Mogrovejo: The Latin American Lesbian Movement: Its Shaping and its Search for Autonomy 18. Paula Gunn Allen: Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism 19. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant: Suffering Like an African Girl: Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 20. Fatima Mernissi: The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries PART 5. BEYOND "THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN": 1975 TO THE PRESENT 21. M. Cristina Alcalde: Mothers, Guerrillas, and Revolutionaries: Women's Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 22. M. Cristina Alcalde, Srimati Basu, and Emily Burrill: Feminist Organizing around Violence against Women in Mali, Peru, and India? 23. Bernadette Barton: Freedom from Sexism versus Sexual Freedom: A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 24. Diane E. King: Two Generations of Feminist Activism: Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 25. Michael Kimmel: Men and Women's Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 26. Ashley Bourgeois: Identity, Activism, and Third Wave Feminism in the United States 27. Obioma Nnaemeka: Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 28. Nadje Al-Ali: Gendering the Arab Spring List of Contributors List of Credits Index
