Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions

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Author: Chela Sandoval

ISBN-10: 0847686051

ISBN-13: 9780847686056

Category: African American History - Social Aspects

Women 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.

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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.Angela Y. DavisA 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.

AcknowledgmentsForewordPrefacePt. IWorking Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe1Ella Baker, "Black Women's Work" and Activist Intellectuals32Struggling along the Race-Gender Academic Divide19Pt. IISpoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence3In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women274When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability, Intraracial Sexual Violence, and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerard Tyson45Pt. IIIMiddle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era5Women and the Gulf War: A Critique of Feminist Responses596Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism83Pt. IVLiterary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity, Exile, and Gender7Women, War, Autobiography, and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia1038Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in Le baobab fou1139Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands127Afterword151Bibliography153Index167About the Contributors175

\ Angela Y. DavisA 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.\ \