1.4 'UN ER WESTERN EYES: FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP AND COLONIAL DISCOURSES'

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. AKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. Part 1 Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Racialising Feminism
6. 1.1 'THE MASTER'S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER'S HOUSE' 25
7. 1.2 'NOTES TOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION' 29
8. 1.3 'THE USES OF FUNDAMENTALISM' 43
9. 1.4 'UN ER WESTERN EYES: FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP AND COLONIAL DISCOURSES' 49
10. 1.5 'US THIRD-WORLD FEMINISM: THE THEORY AND METHOD OPPOSITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD' 75
11. Part 2 Rethinking Whiteness
12. 2.1 'TO MAKE THE FACTS KNOWN: RACIAL TERROR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE FEMININITY' 103
13. 2.2 'IROQUOIS WOMEN, EUROPEAN WOMEN' 135
14. 2.3 'WHITE WOMEN AND COLONIALISM TOWARDS A NON-RECUPERATIVE HISTORY' 161
15. 2.4 'I'M A FEMINIST BUT ... "OTHER" WOMEN AND POSTNATIONAL FEMINISM' 190
16. 2.5 'THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE: BLACK FEMALE SPECTATORS' 207
17. 2.6 '"ON THE THRESHOLD OF WOMAN'S ERA": LYNCHING, EMPIRE AND SEXUALITY IN BLACK FEMINIST THEORY' 222
18. Part 3 Redefining the 'Third-World' Subject
19. 3.1 'DEAD WOMEN TELL N TALES: ISSUES OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY, SUBALTERN AGENCY AND TRAD ON IN COLON AND POSTCOLONIAL WRITINGS ON WIDOW IMMOLATION IN INDIA' 241
20. 3.2 'END OF EMPIRE: ISLAM, NATIONALISM AND WOMEN IN TURKEY' 263
21. 3.3 'HOW NATIVE IS A "NATIVE" ANTHROPOLOGIST?' 285
22. 3.4 'THREE WOMEN'S TEXTS AND A CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM' 306
23. 3.5 'WHERE HAVE All THE NATIVES GONE?' 324
24. Part 4 SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL RIGHTS
25. 4.1 'RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS' 353
26. 4.2 'FEMINISMS AND UNIVERSALISM$: "UNIVERSAL RIGHTS" AND THE LEGAL DEBATE AROUND THE PRACTICE OF FEMALE EXCISION IN FRANCE' 368
27. 4.3 'STATE VERSUS ISLAM: MALAY FAMILIES, WOMEN'S BODIES AND THE BODY POLITIC IN MALAYSIA' 381
28. 4.4 'DEBT-BONDAGE AND TRAFFICKING: DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE' 413
29. 4.5 RECONFIGURING HIERARCHIES: THE ILBERT BILL CONTROVERSY, 1883-84 427
30. 4.6 'VACATION CRUISES; OR, THE HOMOEROTICS OF ORIENTALISM' 460
31. Part 5 Harem and the Veil
32. 5.1 'THE MEANING OF SPATIAL BOUNDARIES' 489
33. 5.2 'THE SEEN, THE UNSEEN AND THE IMAGINED: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIVES' 502
34. 5.3 'ON VEILING, VISION AND VOYAGE: CROSS-CULTURAL DRESSING AND NARRATIVES OF IDENTITY' 520
35. 5.4 'VEILED FANTASIES: CULTURAL AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE IN THE DISCOURSE OF ORIENTALISM' 542
36. 5.5 'UNVEILING ALGERIA' 567
37. 5.6 'VEILING RESISTANCE' 586
38. Part 6 Gender and post/colonial spatial relations
39. 6.1 'DIASPORA, BORDER AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES' 613
40. 6.2 'IMPERIAL LEATHER: RACE, CROSSDRESSING AND THE CULT OF DOMESTICITY' 635
41. 6.3 'EARTH HONORING: WESTERN DESIRES AND INDIGENIOUS KNOWLEDGES' 667
42. 6.4 'GENDER AND COLONIAL SPACE' 692
43. 6.5 SPATIAL STORIES UNDER WOMEN WRITING FROM LUCKNOW IN 1857' 720
44. BIBLIOGRAPHY 739
45. INDEX 747