Concepedia

Abstract

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 Part I. Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe Chapter 4 Ella Baker 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