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	Postmodern/Postcolonial Feminism
		There are strong parallels between postcolonialism and feminism as both are fundamentally concerned with the politics of "othering," marginalization and the construction of a "subaltern" or subordinated subjectivity colonialism and/or patriarchy.
		Broadly speaking, postcolonial critics have attempted to dismantle naturalized assumptions about language and textuality using two main strategies: a denial of the centrality of imperialist culture (abrogation), and a seizure and reconstitution of imperial discourse (apropriation).
		Language is a central concern of both postcolonial and femnist theory and the theoretical trajectories of both have examined issues of "silencing" and enclosure due to the way in which the female/colonized subject has been forced to articulate selfhood in the terms of the oppressor.
	www.chungnam.ac.kr /~sunjung/ff-part4-introduction.htm (1867 words)

	genderealisations 1(2002)
		Postcolonial feminism in the new millennium now accepts a crucial point, long self-evident to Third World women, that racism, colonialism and its legacies are not just the province of non-white, non-Western women.
		A key question for postcolonial feminism is how to go beyond the limitations that come from one's location in a particular place at a particular moment in history and the experience derived from this.
		The tendency of Western feminism to see itself as feminism per se, and not to give due regard to indigenous movements is not unrelated to the tendency of those hostile to feminist movements in the Third World to characterize feminism as by definition Western.
	www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de /genderealisations/weedon.html (4090 words)

	What Kind of Feminist Are You?
		Amazon feminism is dedicated to the image of the female hero in Greek mythology, as it is expressed in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in sexual values and practices.
		Amazon feminism focuses on physical equality and is opposed to gender role stereotypes and discrimination against women based on assumptions that women are supposed to be, look, or behave as if they are passive, weak and physically helpless.
		Male feminism seeks to unearned privilege as it has been afforded to men and defines and understands it as unjust, acknowledge just how harmful men (include male feminist) oppressive actions have been to others, and try to envision non-oppressive ways of being in the world.
	www.umt.edu /wcenter/default_files/page0004.htm (1279 words)

	Postcolonial_feminism - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Postcolonial feminism is a form of feminist philosophy which criticizes Western forms of feminism, notably radical feminism and its universalization of female experience.
		The field of postcolonial feminism arose from the gendered history of colonialism.
		An underlying theoretical premise of postcolonial feminism is that concepts of freedom, equality, and rights stem from the Enlightenment and privilege Western and European norms, rather than representing a universal values system.
	www.thewordbook.com /Postcolonial_feminism (564 words)

	Canadian Literature: Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts encompasses topics ranging from questions of postcolonialism in the classroom, to the conjunction of Hilary Beckles and Frantz Fanon in Barbados, to Hanif Kureishi's articulation in film of marginalized race and sexuality in the Asian immigrant community in England.
		She distinguishes between literary postcolonialism (a continuation of the old notion of Commonwealth literature), literary multiculturalism (the discourse of the migrant condition), and public versions of postcolonialism and multiculturalism that are the province of state power.
		Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts is such a mixed bag that it should appeal to a wide range of readers interested in developing their ideas on postcolonial concerns.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/archive/165/444_moss.html (983 words)

	Postmodern/Postcolonial Feminism
		There are strong parallels between postcolonialism and feminism as both are fundamentally concerned with the politics of "othering," marginalization and the construction of a "subaltern" or subordinated subjectivity colonialism and/or patriarchy.
		Broadly speaking, postcolonial critics have attempted to dismantle naturalized assumptions about language and textuality using two main strategies: a denial of the centrality of imperialist culture (abrogation), and a seizure and reconstitution of imperial discourse (apropriation).
		Language is a central concern of both postcolonial and femnist theory and the theoretical trajectories of both have examined issues of "silencing" and enclosure due to the way in which the female/colonized subject has been forced to articulate selfhood in the terms of the oppressor.
	www.cnu.ac.kr /~sunjung/ff-part4-introduction.htm (1867 words)

	Span number 37 Yorga Wangi: Bea Rodan
		Above all, in the chapter is the notion of difference (influenced by postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist conceptions of subjectivity, identity, and the self) which embodies the ideas of endless deferral of meaning, no fixed identities, taking account of ethnic and racial difference, and sexual difference as opposed to androgyny between men and women.
		From a brief survey of postcolonial and feminist theory, this article demonstrates how the 'other' (notably women) can subvert and resist the centre by employing the "tactic of displacement." This tactic, Rowan contends, is particularly useful for women because it enables them to employ "counter-narrative" strategically in an overt and conscious way.
		It is concerned with the issue of feminism in a postcolonial context.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/37/Rodan.html (3342 words)

	Postcolonial Feminism in Nehanda
		One of the fundamental tenets of recent postcolonial theory is that among the first necessary steps in newfound colonial independence is the reclamation of the previously disparaged and disrespected culture.
		An apparently necessary result of the glorification of pre-colonial culture is the acceptance of, or refusal to deal with, inherent issues of gender inequality or abuse within the society.
		One approaching these books with an eye towards trends in postcolonial theory could be afforded the assumption that they were written with an awareness of this need for a new, more consistent and realistic vision of women in Africa.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /zimbabwe/vera/greenwald1.html (1207 words)

	Post-colonialism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Postcolonial theory became part of the critical toolbox in the 1970s, and many practitioners credit Edward Said's book Orientalism as theory's founding work.
		More controversial trends, like "hybridity postcolonialism" (Homi Bhabha) and "liberal postcolonialism" (Duncan Ivison), are probably reactions to the communitarian history of postcolonialism, which was and still is embedded in identity politics.
		The study of the post-colonial has gained popularity in recent years, particularly postcolonial feminism.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Postcolonialism (253 words)

	Cyberfeminism - art women at ArtWomen.org: Carolyn Guertin
		Thus the arrogant and dismissive attitudes of Second Wave Feminism towards racial issues, extensively critiqued by feminists of color are reenacted in cyberfeminism.
		For several years I have argued that postcolonial theory, especially postcolonial feminism is a valuable resource for cyberfeminists to increase their understanding of these issues.
		Discourses of culture and tradition have been at the forefront of nationalistic and colonizing projects in various parts of the world and are currently invoked in Europe and North America to mobilize citizens against the hordes of aliens "invading" the land.
	www.artwomen.org /cyberfems/fernandez/fernandez2.htm (525 words)

	A. Hussain: Review of Narayan, Dis/locating Cultures/Identitites, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
		Postcolonial feminism offers a wide range of theoretical and historical approaches, dwelling upon various complex constellations of concerns.
		Variously enacting its confrontational politics and praxis geared towards social change, postcolonial feminism confronts and contests unequal power-relations and production-relations on both local and global scales.
		Thus she does not merely problematize what might be called a cook-book approach to other cultures, an approach which still retains the legacies of old-style colonialism in the very practice of metropolitan multiculturalism itself, but also suggests how the history of colonial-imperial power/knowledge networks, variously subalternizing Third-World identities and cultures, has not reached its end.
	rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/54.2/reviews/hussain.asp (1103 words)

	the_venom_posse: "The woman I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born." -- Adrienne Rich
		This form of feminism was popular in the so-called second wave (a "wave" being a large major change in general feminist ideas), though it is not as prominent today.
		For these feminists, feminism is a primary means to human liberation (i.e., the liberation of men as well as women, and men and women from other social problems).
		This mostly Western debate about feminism should not distract from the fact that the major goal of the feminist movement in the 21st century is to improve the situation of women in non-Western countries.
	community.livejournal.com /the_venom_posse/58965.html (3884 words)

	Black American Feminisms Bibliography: Introduction
		Black American Feminism is not a comprehensive bibliography of fl American feminist thought, however, it does seek to be comprehensive in subject coverage, citing sources from numerous subject areas within the humanities, social sciences, and health, medicine and science.
		The increasing volume of literature on African feminism, feminist movement in the Caribbean, and fl feminism in Britain was excluded primarily to keep the bibliography within a manageable scope, and to satisfy the requirements of a liberal studies Master's thesis with an American studies concentration, the bibliography's first manifestation.
		A source for an introduction to the politics of African Feminism from an anthropological perspective is African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed.
	www.library.ucsb.edu /blackfeminism/introduction.html (1392 words)

	Jouvert: Books Received
		While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have been constructed by others, this study reveals how each group, in turn, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space in which certain negative prevailing discourses are neutralized and rendered ineffective.
		Aimed at a multiple readership in postcolonial, Luso-Brazilian and Latin American studies, this volume questions the questions the grounds for application, to the cultures of formerly colonised territories, of assumptions and concepts that are identified with metropolitan values and institutions.
		Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political econonmy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformation of the contemporary world.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/booksre.htm (3204 words)

	Description:
		This course is grounded in an examination of the complex dimensions of feminism is a variety of postcolonial contexts.
		We will begin with an overview of postcolonial theory to connect political history, nation and social location to multiple constructions of feminism.
		We will devote the final section of the course to exploring the relationships between local and global women’s solidarity movements as a means to connect feminist theory with transnational activism.
	www.warren-wilson.edu /~socanth/coursepages/SOC391F04.htm (1413 words)

	UC Transational and Transcolonial Studies
		Profoundly influenced by deconstructive marxism, feminism and postcolonial thought, from Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Jacqueline Rose, her paper will propose a future for postcolonial reading accountable to a form of marxist feminist internationalism.
		Recent work of transnational feminism, often conducted under the rubric of women’s studies, postcolonial studies, and newly reconfigured Area Studies, often fails to theorize adequately the important role of marxist feminism in the future of critical thinking and responsible scholarship.
		She is currently completing a book manuscript on transnational feminism provisionally titled “Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present.” She has published on a variety of subjects ranging from postcoloniality, feminism, film, autobiography, new configurations of Area Studies in the post-Cold War era, torture and terrorism, and psychoanalysis.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /transnation/Khanna.html (591 words)

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