Buch
Monografie
AlterNatives : black feminism in the postimperial nation
Verfasst von:
Samantrai, Ranu
Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford Univ. Press
,
2002
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219 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Samantrai, Ranu |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Cultural sitings
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| Ausgabe: | Orig. print. |
| Jahr: | 2002 |
| ISBN: | 0804743207 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| AlterNatives explains why the hope of a harmonious, fully consensual society is misguided. Ranu Samantrai argues that the proliferation of sources of dissent can hold liberal democratic nations accountable for their political promises. Black British feminism was born in response to the privileging of race as the marker of collective identity and the containment of gender as an internal and relatively insignificant communal matter. In that context the multiracial constituency and anti-communal politics of the movement exposed the instability of majority and minority communities and undermined the ambitions of would-be representatives. Samantrai examines newsletters, political pamphlets, memoirs, conference proceedings, scholarly essays, fiction, and poetry to demonstrate how the movement turned the identity discourse of British racial politics against its intended purposes. Dissensions within its own ranks prompted members to pursue political strategies that value heterogeneity and conflict as motivators of change. AlterNatives tests the efficacy of their strategies in case studies of seemingly intractable disagreements between cultural traditionalists, anti-racists, and feminists regarding the continuity of troubling but culturally significant gender practices. | |
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