In this inaugural volume edited by philosopher Mechthild Nagel, several articles explore the theme Feminists Confront Empire. The journal Wagadu invites interdisciplinary work which contributes to the field of postcolonial gender and women’s studies.
Table of Contents
Special Issue
| Editorial | |
| Mechthild Nagel | |
| What’s In A Name?: Seeing Feminism, Universalism, and Modernity excerpted (with permission) from Against Empire, Feminisms, Racism and Fictions of “The” West (Zed Press, Summer 2004, forthcoming) | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Zillah Eisenstein | |
| En-gendering critical spatial literacy:Migrant Asante women and the politics of urban space | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Epifania Amoo-Adare | |
| Invited and Invented Spaces of Participation: Neoliberal Citizenship and Feminists’ Expanded Notion of Politics | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Faranak Miraftab | |
| A Requiem for Voicelessness: Pakistanis and Muslims in the US | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Asma Barlas | |
General Issue |
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| Arms Control | |
| Mary Herbert | |
| Djotaayi Dieguenye: The Gathering of Women in Mariama Ba’s Fictional World | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Siga Fatima Jagne | |
| When male becomes female and female becomes male in Mande | ABSTRACT PDF |
| Kassim Kone | |
Book Reviews |
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| Lourdes Beneria, Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if People Mattered. New York: Routledge, 2003 | |
| Jennifer Mandel, University of Miami |
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| THE SOCIALIST FEMINIST PROJECT: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics edited by Nancy Holmstrom. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003. 426 pp. | |
| Kathryn Russell, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York – College at Cortland |
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| Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 2003. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham & London: Duke University Press. Vii-viii+300pp.Joane Nagel. 2003. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Vii-xii+308pp. | |
| Mechthild Nagel | |