Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diveristy in a Postcolonial World
What does feminism mean to the women of rural India, young Thai sex workers, or Filipino maids in Hong Kong? Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, Western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of "women of color." She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contests the issues...
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An incisive exploration of how the experiences of 'women of colour' contest Anglophone feminism.
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction11Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds18Histories of Colonialism19Declension Narratives19Southeast Asia: sex-role complementarity?21Case Studies: India, China, Japan23Modernisation and Tradition: Histories of the Veil29Classifying Women's Worlds: First, Second, Third?34Empirical indicators: 'more than 100 million women are missing'39Fracturing Binarisms: Postcolonial Desire44Orientalism46Hybridisation522Individual versus Community57Constructing and Deconstructing the Western Individual58Speaking the 'Self'60The Ties That Bind63Human Rights or Western Rights?69Universal Declarations of Human Rights70Refracting Rights Through Needs74Agency and 'Customary Practices'79Infibulation80Sati883Mothers and Wives97Mothers, Wives and Sisters97Reproductive Labour and its Products99Population Policies101To Have and to Hold: Reproductive Choices110The Powers of Mothers112The Double-edged Significance of 'Black Matriarch'114Sisters in Struggle117Brideprice, Dowry and Patrilocality120Brideprice, Dowry and Domestic Violence121Patrilocality and Mothers-in-Law1234Sexual Identities: Western Imperialism?129'Core' Sexual Identities in the West131Sexual Confessions: Christianity and Foucault131Sexual Expression: Freud and the Sexologists133Masculinities and the Monstrous Feminine134Pollution or Pornography?136Mother-Son Bonds141Speaking With Two Lips to Recognise Third Genders147Homosexual Acts and Homosexual Lives148Third Genders154Sexual Identities Invade the Interior of Colonised Subjects?160Little Honesty in China: Prostitutes or Concubines?160Women's Magazines in Singapore and India162Conclusion: Post-sex1655The International Traffic in Women167International Connections Between Women167The International Decade for Women169Trade: Freedom Through Labour?173Unpaid Unseen Women's Labour174Women's Paid Labour: The Free-Trade Zones176Prostitution and Sex Tourism180Aid: International Bounty?186The Doubled Vision of Migrant Indigenous Women188Refugees188Eating Her Words: Multiculturalism191Women's Studies and Women's Politics196Women's Studies196Women's Movements Around the World: New Practices for Old Battles199Conclusion: Braiding at the Borderlands206Speaking and Subject Positions208Seeing 'Our' 'Selves' Through the Eyes of 'Others'211Coalition Politics216Endnotes222Bibliography226Index266
