Feminism and Antiracism : International Struggles for Justice

Twine and Blee break new ground with case studies of international, feminist, and antiracist struggles - Feminist Collections Focuses on what is happening in the streets, in feminist, antiracist social movements around the globe. - Signs A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questions how does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the perception that feminism is a Western ideology and how effective are their methods? What opportunities does globalization bring for cross-cultural organizing? From essays on the race and gender issues in organizing exotic dancers to resistance art in Africa and the U.S., this timely and necessary anthology will be sure to spark debate and controversy. Contributors: Angela Davis, Kathleen Blee, France Winddance Twine, Heater Merrill, Veronica Magar, Siobhan Brooks, Delores Walters, Michelle Rosenthal, Ellen Kaye Scott, andrea breen, Yoshiko Nozaki, Sohera Syeda, Becky Thompson, Paola Bacchetta, Carolyn Martin Shaw, Eileen O'Brien and Michael Armato, Jane Freedman, Cathleen Armstead, Ashwini Deshpande, and Minelle Mahtani. Table of Contents Acknowledgments xi Foreword by Mary Romero xiii Contributors xvii Introduction: Feminist Antiracist Maps: Transnational Contours 1 Kathleen M. Blee and France Winddance Twine part i Feminist Spaces, Antiracist Maps 1 Making Space for Antiracist Feminism in Northern Italy 17 Heather Merrill 2 Resisting Domestic Violence and Caste Inequality: All-Women Courts in India 37 Veronica Magar 3 Exotic Dancing and Unionizing: The Challenges of Feminist and Antiracist Organizing at the Lusty Lady Theater 59 Siobhan Brooks 4 Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen 71 Delores M. Walters part ii Feminist Talk, Antiracist Dialogues 5 Danger Talk: Race and Feminist Empowerment in the New South Africa 97 Michelle Rosenthal 6 From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: Dilemmas in Antiracist Activism in California 125 Ellen Kaye Scott 7 Between the Covers: Feminist, Antiracist, and Queer Performance Art in Australia 150 Andrea Breen 8 Feminism, Nationalism, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy over Comfort Women 170 Yoshiko Nozaki part iii Coalitions at Work: Transgressive, Transracial, Transnational 9 Coalition Politics in Organizing for Mumia Abu-Jamal193 Sohera Syeda and Becky Thompson 10 Extraordinary Alliances in Crisis Situations: Women against Hindu Nationalism in India 220 Paola Bacchetta 11 Working with Feminists in Zimbabwe: A Black American's Experience of Transnational Alliances 250 Carolyn Martin Shaw 12 Building Connections between Antiracism and Feminism: Antiracist Women and Profeminist Men 277 Eileen O'Brien and Michael P. Armato part iv Faith and Other Unfinished Feminisms 13 L'affaire des Foulards: Problems of Defining a Feminist Antiracist Strategy in French Schools 295 Jane Freedman 14 Memorializing Racist Massacres: Faith versus Feminism in Florida 313 Cathleen L. Armstead 15 Casting Off Servitude: Assessing Caste and Gender Inequality in India 328 Ashwini Deshpande 16 Mapping the Meanings of ?Racism? and ?Feminism? among Women Television Broadcast Journalists in Canada 349 Minelle Mahtani Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Feminist, Racist, and Antiracist Actions 367 Appendix B: Selected List of Feminist and Antiracist Organizations 373 Index 381

France Winddance Twine is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kathleen M. Blee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh