Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Racialising Feminism

1.1 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'

Audre Lorde

1.2 'Notes Towards a Politics of Location'

Adrienne Rich

1.3 'The Uses of Fundamentalism'

Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis

1.4 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses'

Chandra Talgade Mohanty

1.5 US Third-World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World'

Chela Sandoval

Part 2 Rethinking Whiteness

2.1 'To Make the Facts Known: Racial Terror and the Construction of White Feminiity

Vron Ware

2.2 'Iroquois Women, European Women'

Natalie Zemon Davis

2.3 'White Women and Colonialism: Towards a Non-Recuperative History'

Jane Haggis

2.4 'I'm a Feminist but..."Other" Women and Postnational Feminism'

Ien Ang

2.5 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators'

bell hooks

2.6 '"On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory'

Hazel V. Carby

Part 3 Redefining the 'Third-World' Subject

3.1 'Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India'

Anja Loomba

3.2 'End of Empire: Islam, Nationalism and Women in Turkey'

Deniz Kandiyoti

3.3 'How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist?'

Kirin Narayan

3.4 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism'

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3.5 'Where Have all the Natives Gone?'

Rey Chow

Part 4 Sexuality and Sexual Rights

4.1 'Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights'

Angela Davis

4.2 'Feminisms and Universalisms: "Universal Rights" and the Legal Debate Around the Practice of Female Excision in France'

Françoise Lionnet

4.3 'State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies and the Body Politic in Malaysia'

Aihwa Ong

4.4 'Debt-Bondage and Trafficking: Don't Believe the Hype'

Alison Murray

4.5 'Reconfiguring Hierarchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84'

Mrinalini Sinha

4.6 'Vacation Cruises; or, The Homoerotics of Orientalistu'

Joseph A. Boone

Part 5 Harem and the Veil

5.1 'The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries'

Fatima Mernissi

5.2 'The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined: Private and Public Lives'

Sarah Graham-Brown

5.3 'On Veiling, Vision and Voyage: Cross-Cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity'

Reina Lewis

5.4 'Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalistu'

Meyda Yegenoglu

5.5 'Unveiling Algeria'

Winifred Woodhull

5.6 'Veiling Resistance'

Fadava El Guindi

Part 6 Gender and Post/Colonial Spatial Relations

6.1 'Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities'

Avtar Brah

6.2 'Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-Dressing and the Cult of Domesticity'

Anne McClintock

6.3 'Earth Honoring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges'

Jane M. Jacobs

6.4 'Gender and Colonial Space'

Sara Mills

6.5 'Spatial Stories Under Siege: British Women Writing from Lucknow in 1857'

Alison Blunt

Bibliography

Index