Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse
Published on 5. November 2001
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-415-92887-8 (ISBN)
Description
Contributors examine white feminist theology's misappropriations of Native North American women, Chinese footbinding, and veiling by Muslim women, as well as the Jewish emancipation in France, the symbolic dismemberment of black women by rap and sermons, and the potential to rewrite and reclaim canonical stories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-92887-8 (9780415928878)
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Kwok Pui-Lan | Laura E. Donaldson
Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse
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Persons
Laura E. Donaldson is Associate Professor in the English Department at Cornell University. She is the author of Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire Building (1992). Kwok Pui-Lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School. She is the author of Introducing Asian Feminist Theology (2000).
Content
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part One; Challenging Feminist Religious Discourse; The Breasts of Columbus: A Political Anatomy of Postcolonialism and Feminist Religious Discourse, Laura E Donaldson; Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse, Kwok Pui-lan; Sartorial Fabrications: Enlightenment and Western Feminism, Meyda Yeyenoylu; Postcoloniality, Feminist Spaces, and Religion, Musa W. Dube; Part Two: Rethinking Texts and Translations; The Prostitutes Gold: Women, Religion, and Sanskrit in One Corner of India, Laurie L. Patton; Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies, Miriam Cooke; Letting Go of Liberalism: Feminism and the Emancipation of the Jews, Laura Levitt; Body, Representation, and Blck Religious Discourse, M.Shawn Copeland; Selected Biblography