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Sharpened Edge Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing

Stephanie Athey

ISBN: 0-275-95987-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95987-6

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248 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2003

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: This collection of essays examines the relationship of women of color's armed resistance to their aesthetic struggles, tension and transformation in feminist practice, and the impact of the gender-based design of state-sponsored terror, human rights debates, and the economic development for women of color.

Athey brings together new scholarship testing the possibility of transnational feminist action and theorizing historical and contemporary aspects of resistance for women of color. Included are essays by and about women of Africa, India, and the Americas, including women of African American, Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Yaqui origins. Essays examine regional and historical contexts to demonstrate the central role of women of color in armed resistance struggle and in sustaining cultures of resistance, despite the fact that the agency, speech, and writing of women of color have received the least attention in studies of resistance.

Contributors challenge thinking across many disciplines: sociology, literary and cultural studies, history, political science, and education. Resistance struggles examined include women in armed struggle for national self-determination, political and economic struggle for human rights and against state-sponsored repression; and women sustaining political and cultural resistance against specific religious, feminist, or nationalist doctrines, and against the repression of multiple forms of political, sexual, intellectual, and artistic expression.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sharp Practice by Stephanie Athey
Documenting the Political and Historical Context of Women's Resistance
Women, Human Rights, and Development by Winston E. Langley
An African Vantage Point on Feminist Research: Contemporary Eritrean Women and Revolution by Asgedet Stefanos
Subaltern Studies and Female Militancy: The Case of Preetilata Wadedar by Betty Joseph
Between Silence and Sanction: Yaqui Diaspora by Michelle Grijalva
Black Women and American Slavery: Forms of Resistance by Sandra M. Grayson
Tension and Transformation in Feminist Practice
Variations on a Theme: Four Voices in Contemporry Chicana Feminist Critiism by Michelle Joffroy
Deadly Desires: Cinema, Seduction, and Racialized Masculinity by Daniel Cooper Alarcón
Artistic Practice as Political Strategy
The "Sharpened Edge" of Audre Lorde: Visions and Re-visions of Community, Power, and Language by Maureen C. Heacock
Ana Lydia Vega: Linguistic Women and Another Counter-Assault or Can the Master(s) Hear? by David J. Labiosa
Positioned for Resistance: Identity and Action in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise by Mary Pollock
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author: STEPHANIE ATHEY is Associate Professor of Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lasell College and a Research Associate of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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