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Book SynopsisWomen of color remain arguably the most economically, politically, and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of ''war,'' experienced daily by women of color.
Trade ReviewA 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
Table of ContentsChapter 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
