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feminisms, postcolonialisms, cross-cultures
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Marenne, Eric Touya de
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, feminisme, postkolonialisme, globalisering, identiteit
- Description
- This anthology seeks to introduce women writers in the 'global' Francophone world by investigating the place of feminist, postcolonial and cross-cultural theories in interpreting women francophone literature. The book also allows the reader to examine the extent to which women writers reflect or negate the conventional archetypes of Francophone literature, how they reinvent the political, cultural and critical discourse of their time and place, and create their own identity from objectification to subjectivity. The author wants s to explore these themes at a time when globalization is redefining the concepts of language, identity, space and history, and transforming the rapport of each individual to the 'other'. While most research on the subject focus on specific countries or regions, this volume offers a new critical introduction to Francophone women authors from a broad geographical range in North and West Africa, the Near East, the Pacific, North America, the Caribbean Islands and Europe.
Central and Eastern European perspectives
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kulpa, Robert > (ed.)
- Creator
- Mizielinska, Joanna > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Lambevski, Alexander
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- O EUR 3 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, homobewegingen, lesbische bewegingen, transgenders, queer theory, mensenrechten, postkolonialisme, theorieën, EU, Oost-Europa, bundel
- Description
- This volume assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusing on gender and sexuality within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Providing case studies drawn from a range of 'post-communist' countries, this volume brings together the latest research on the formation of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe, alongside analyses of the sexual and national identity politics of the region. Engaged with current debates within queer studies surrounding temporality and knowledge production, and inspired by post-colonial critique, the book problematises the western hegemony that often characterises sexuality studies, and presents local theoretical insights better attuned to their geo-temporal realities.
colonial and postcolonial representations of the female body
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- Book/Boek
- 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,
a feminist critique of postcolonial thought
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- De, Esha Niyogi
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- V IND 1D 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- postkolonialisme, prostitutie, fotografie, seksualiteit, media, dans, autobiografieën, 19e eeuw, India
- Description
- This book emphasizes the feminist challenge to sexual and racial orthodoxies posed by critical imaginations of the 'autonomous woman' in postcolonial cultures by studying autobiographical texts by nineteenth-century Bengali prostituted women: point-of-view photography: woman-centred dance dramas and essays by Rabindranth Tagore: representations of Tagore's works on mainstream television, video, and stage in India and Indian American diasporas: and feminist cinema, choreography and performance respectively by Aparna Sen and Manjusri Chaki-Sircar.
a feminist approach to human security
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Robinson, Fiona
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 1M 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- zorg, ethiek, veiligheid, globalisering, arbeid, gezondheid, kinderopvang, vredesbeweging, postkolonialisme, aids
- Description
- In this book Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She uses a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches. Robinson's consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional, and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people. She examines 'care ethics' and 'security' at the theoretical level and explores the practical implications of care relations for security in a variety of contexts: women's labour in the global economy, humanitarian intervention and peace building, healthcare, and childcare.
contemporary women's travel writing in Britain and the Netherlands
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- De Mul, Sarah
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 10 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, postkolonialisme, gender, reisbeschrijving, Nederland, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The colonial past of the Netherlands and Great Britain are analyzed. The intersections between travel writing, memory and gender, and how women's travel writings are historically embedded in the distinct cultures of colonial remembrance of Britain and the Netherlands are discussed.
narratives of masculinities in colonial and postcolonial literature, photography, and film
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Yekani, Elahe Haschemi
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- mannelijkheid, kolonialisme, postkolonialisme, fotografie, literatuur, films
- Description
- Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view. This book draws on the work of authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad—as well as contemporary postcolonial writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith—to show how recurrent references to a 'crisis' of masculinity or the decline of masculinity serve largely to demonstrate and support positions of male privilege.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bier, Laura
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- NO 1E 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- politiek, onderwijs, moederschap, feminisme, postkolonialisme, arbeid, voortplanting, Egypte, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state feminism, and postcolonial state-building.
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