colonial and postcolonial representations of the female body
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Borrego, Silvia Pilar Castro > (ed.)
- Creator
- Ruiz, Maria Isabel Romero > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Henderson, Mae G.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 1M 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, migratie, kolonialisme, postkolonialisme, identiteit, vrouwenlichamen, vrouwenhandel, prostitutie, zwarte vrouwen, etniciteit, bundel
- Description
- This book explores representations of women to the construction of knowledge in a global world as migrant subjects. The essays focus on the female body as a site of physical violence and abuse, fighting prevalent stereotypes about women s representations and identities. Women s strategies for building possible identities are seen to be based on their own experiences, seeking the ways in which the public marking and marketing of the female body within the western male imaginary contributes to the making of women s social and personal identities. The articles in this book examine issues of gender and boundaries, the realities of women as colonial and postcolonial subjects, discrimination as a result of migration, racism, and colonization analysed through a variety of critical perspectives. The gendered, raced, classed dimensions and mixed heritages not only of white women but also of women of the African Diaspora: these are important issues for the construction of knowledge and identity in our present multicultural societies,