4 Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. Contributors xvii
6. IntroductionL Feminist Antiracist Maps: Transnational Contours 1
7. Part I Feminist Spaces, Antiracist Maps
8. 1 Making Space for Antiracist Feminism in Northern Italy 14
9. 2 Resisting Domestic Violence and Caste Inequality: All-Women Courts in India 37
10. 3 Exotic Dancing and Unionizing: The Challenges of Feminist and Antiracist Organizing at the Lusty Lady Theater 59
11. 4 Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen 71
12. Part II Feminist Talk, Antiracist Dialogues
13. 5 Danger Talk: Race and Feminist Empowerment in the New South Africa 94
14. 6 From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: Dilemmas in Antiracist Activism in California 125
15. 7 Between the Covers: Feminist, Antiracist, and Queer Performance Art in Australia 150
16. 8 Feminism, Nationalism, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy over “Comfort Women” 170
17. Part III Coalitions at Work: Transgressive, Transracial, Transnational
18. 9 Coalition Politics in Organizing for Mumia Abu-Jamal 190
19. 10 Extraordinary Alliances in Crisis Situations:Women against Hindu Nationalism in India 220
20. 11 Working with Feminists in Zimbabwe: A Black American’s Experience of Transnational Alliances 250
21. 12 Building Connections between Antiracism and Feminism: Antiracist Women and Profeminist Men 277
22. Part IV Faith and Other Unfinished Feminisms
23. 13 “L’affaire des Foulards”: Problems of Defining a Feminist Antiracist Strategy in French Schools 292
24. 14 Memorializing Racist Massacres: Faith versus Feminism in Florida 313
25. 15 Casting Off Servitude: Assessing Caste and Gender Inequality in India 328
26. 16 Mapping the Meanings of “Racism” and “Feminism” among Women Television Broadcast Journalists in Canada 349
27. Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Feminist, Racist, and Antiracist Action 367
28. Appendix B: Selected List of Feminist and Antiracist Organizations 373
29. Index 381