Émigré feminism : transnational perspectives / edited by Alena Heitlinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heitlinger, Alena, editor.

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nova Scotia. Supreme Court--History.

Nova Scotia.

Feminism--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Feminism.

Feminism--Canada--Congresses.

Women immigrants--Canada--Congresses.

Women immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together the views of expatriate, exiled, and émigré feminists from various parts of the world, this collection explores themes of exile, home, displacement, and the practice of feminism across national boundaries.The thirteen articles presented here originated with a conference on émigré feminism held at Trent University in October 1996. The authors, most of them now living in Canada, are scholars from South Africa, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Greece, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Iran, Finland and New Zealand. Their views have been shaped by their experience of specific political and economic changes, such as the dismantling of communism or apartheid, the rise of religious fundamentalism, or rapid marketization. Together the essays offer a rich diversity of intellectual, political, cultural, and religious perspectives.This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of expatriation by putting a feminist face on the émigré experience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Émigré Feminism: An Introduction

2. Choosing Feminism, Choosing Exile: Towards the Development of a Transnational Feminist Consciousness

3. Afastada Apprehensions: The Politics of Post-exile Location and South Africa’s Gendered Transition

4. Transnational Links in the Making of Latin American Feminisms: A View from the Margins

5. Feminist Discourse on Central and Eastern Europe: Hungarian Women’s Groups in the Early 1990s as a Case Study

6. The Multiple Locations of a Czech Émigré Feminist: A Biographical Perspective

7. Catalyst, Nature, and Vitality of African-Canadian Feminism: A Panorama of an Émigré Feminist

8. There Is No Place Like Home: Caribbean Women’s Feminism in Canada

9. Coming to Terms with Hijab in Canada and Turkey: Agonies of a Secular and Anti-orientalist Émigré Feminist

10. Émigré Iranian Feminism and the Construction of Muslim Woman

11. My Journey as a Woman across Continents

12. Transnational Subjectivities: Travelling to Greece with Karen Connelly

13. Western Feminism? Problems of Categorizing Women’s Movements in Cross-national Research

14. Antipodean Feminisms

Index

Notes:

"Based on a conference held at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont., Oct. 3-6, 1996."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8020-7899-0

1-4426-7436-9

OCLC:

923068981