Arab Women
Caribbean Discourse
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Clare Savage
cultural identity politics
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Esmeralda Santiago
feminist critique of nationalist discourse
gender resistance movements
gendered interventions
God Fathered
Griselda Gambaro
Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji
Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji
intersectionality in film studies
Kwegyir Aggrey
Laleen Jayamanne
Liberation War
Llamo Rigoberta
Meatless Days
Nation Building
nationalist struggles
Nicaraguan Women
Om Gad
postcolonial feminist theory
religious fundamentalist practices
Revisionist Mythmaking
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
Salman Rushdie's Shame
Salman Rushdie’s Shame
Sandinista Woman
Sister Killjoy
Sita Devi
Sita's Father
Sita’s Father
socialist revolutions
Taslima Nasreen
transnational literary analysis
War Time
Western feminists
women authorship studies
Women Filmmakers
Product details
- ISBN 9780815321293
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.
Brinda Bose. Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the departments of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel.
