Women of color : defining the issues, hearing the voices / edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Janet K. Boles ; foreword by Toni-Michelle C. Travis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoeveler, Diane Long.

Boles, Janet K., 1944-

Series:

Contributions in women's studies 0147-104X ; no. 189.

Contributions in women's studies, 0147-104X ; no. 189

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Social conditions.

Minority women.

Ethnic groups.

Minority women in literature.

Minority women educators.

Physical Description:

ix, 217 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Summary:

Discusses the issues facing women of color in contemporary society, the representation of these issues in modern American literature, and the place of women of color in higher education.

Contents:

I Theoretical Perspectives On Race, Gender, And Identity 7

1. Defining Differences: Feminism, Race Theory, and Identity Politics in the Academy / Nina Manasan Greenberg 9

2. The Uses of Silence: Notes on the "Will to Unsay" / Patti L. Duncan 21

3. Women Networking with Their Neighbors: The Universal Thread of Civic Activism / Janet K. Boles 45

4. Bearing Subaltern Witness: Rigoberta Menchu's Testimonio and Our Human Identity / Lance Grahn 57

5. Standpoint Epistemology and Women of Color / Jorge Valadez 69

II Raising And Listening To Our Voices 81

6. Ethical Authority and Women Writers of Color / Mary Sullivan-Haller 83

7. Postcolonial Daughters: Nairobi, Beijing and Paule Marshall / Laura H. Roskos 109

8. Like Words for Pain/Like Water for Chocolate: Mouths, Wombs, and the Mexican Woman's Novel / Diane Long Hoeveler 121

9. Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Experimentation in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherrie Moraga and Maxine Hong Kingston / Rosetta R. Haynes 133

10. Growing Up Desperately: The Adolescent "Other" in the Novels of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Michelle Cliff / Nancy Backes 147

11. The Theater of the New World (B)Orders: Performing Cultural Criticism with Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Anna Deavere Smith / Jennifer Drake 159

III Praxis 175

12. Curriculum Reform, Women's Studies, and Women of Color / Arlene Sgoutas 177

13. Librarians and Women's Studies Programs / Arglenda Friday 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-207) and index.

ISBN:

0313314144

OCLC:

45002271