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ISSUES OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALITY IN FEMINISM
A Selective List of Resources

Compiled by Sandy Folsom. For more information and/or reference assistance, please contact Sandy Folsom (Email: sandy.l.folsom@cmich.edu, Phone: 989-774-2166) or ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Park Library (Phone: 774-3470). 

Books | Videos


Books

African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
HQ 1240.5 .A357 A36 1997
 

Afshar, Haleh. Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case-Study. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
HQ 1735.2 .A7 1998 

Ahmed, Leila. A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
HQ 1793 .Z75 A55 1999
 

Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig. Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement.
HQ 1793 .A73 2000
 

Ali, Azra Asghar. The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920-1947. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
HQ 1742 .A43 2000
 

Amin, Camron Michael. The Making of Modern Iranian Women: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
HQ 1735.2 .A75 2002
 

Ana's Land: Sisterhood in Eastern Europe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
HQ 1560.7 .A78 1997
 

Black British Feminism: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.
DA 125 .N4 B522 1997
 

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
HQ 1762 .B76 1997
 

Bulbeck, Chilla. Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women’s Diversity in a Postcolonial World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
HQ 1154 .B848 1998
 

Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings. New York: Routledge, 1997.
HQ 1421 .C52 1997
 

Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, and Queers. New York: Berg, 2001.
HQ 1767 .C453 2001

Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2000.
HQ 1426 .C633 2000

_____. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
E 185.86 .C5817 1998
 

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. New York: Seal Press, 2002.
HQ 1161 .C65 2002
 

Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1998.
HQ 1421 .C65 1998
 

Critical Race Feminism: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
HQ 1154 .C75 1997
 

Daughters of Caliban; Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
HQ 1501 .D375 1997
 

Davis, Angela Yvonne. The Angela Y. Davis Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.
E 185.86 .D3817 1998
 

Democracy and the Status of Women in East Asia. Boulder, CO: L. Rienner, 2000.
HQ 1236.5 .E25 D45 2000

Dhruvarajan, Vanaja. Gender, Race, and Nation: A Global Perspective. Toronto:      University of Toronto Press, 2002.
HQ 1190 .D47 2002
 

Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. Boston: South End Press, 1997.
HQ 1426 .D845 1997
 

Dworkin, Andrea. Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation. New York: Free Press, 2000. 
HQ 1172 .D85 2000
 

Émigré Feminism: Transnational Perspectives. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
HQ 1106 .E44 1999
 

Fan, Hong. Footbinding, Feminism, and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China.  Portland, OR:  F. Cass, 1997.
GT 498 .F66 F36 1997
 

Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
HQ 1190 .F4189 2001
 

Feminism and 'Race'. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
HQ 1111 .F455 2001
 

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York: Routledge, 1997.
HQ 1870.9 .F45 1997
 

Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.
HQ 1150 .F45 2003
 

Feminists Doing Development: A Practical Critique. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
HQ 1240 .F47 1999
 

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
HQ 1170.F48 1998
 

Friedman, Elisabeth J. Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
HQ 1236.5 .V4 F74 2000
 

Gedalof, Irene. Against Purity: Rethinking Identity With Indian and Western Feminisms. New York: Routledge, 1999.
HQ 1154 .G355 1999
 

Gelb, Joyce. Gender Policies in Japan and the United States: Comparing Women's Movements, Rights, and Politics. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
HQ 1762 .G37 2003
 

Gender and Imperialism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
JC 359 .G456 1998
 

Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
HQ 1785 .H47 1999t
 

Hooks, Bell. Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
E 185.97 .H77 A3 1997
 

Human Development in South Asia 2000: The Gender Question. Oxford: Oxford     University Press, 2000.
HQ 1726 .H37 2000t
 

Hurtado, Aída. Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out On Sexuality and Identity. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
E 184 .M5 H87 2003
 

Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.
HQ 1642 .I755 2002
 

Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2003.
HQ 1728.5 .J49 2003
 

Karam, Azza M.  Women, Islamisms, and the State: Contemporary Feminisms in Egypt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
HQ 1793 .K37 1998
 

Kazemzadeh, Masoud. Islamic Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Gender Inequality in Iran under Khomeini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
HQ 1735.2 .K39 2002
 

Levitt, Laura. Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home. New York:      Routledge, 1997.
BM 729 .W6 L49 1997
 

Liddle, Joanna. Rising Suns, Rising Daughters: Gender, Class, and Power in Japan. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
HQ 1762 .L5 2000
 

Lugones, Maria. Pilgrimages=Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
HQ 1190 .L84 2003
 

Mackie, Vera C. Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment, and Sexuality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
HQ 1762 .M326 2003
 

Missionaries and Mandarins: Feminist Engagement with Development Institutions. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998.
HQ 1240 .M57 1998p
 

Mohanram, Radhika. Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
HM 636 .M64 1999
 

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
HQ 1870.9 .M64 2003
 

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and White Feminism. St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
GN 666 .M635 2000
 

Moyano, María Elena. The Autobiography of María Elena Moyano: The Life and Death of a Peruvian Activist. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2000.
HN 350 .V54 M6913 2000
 

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.
HQ 1170 .M8473 1997
 

Narayan, Uma. Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism. New York: Routledge, 1997.
HQ 1870.9 .N37 1997
 

Newman, Louis Michele. White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
HQ 1410 .N475 1999
 

Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
HQ 1236 .O35 2001t
 

Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women’s Groups in the Middle East. New York: Berg, 1997.
HQ 1726.5 .O74 1997p
 

Qasim, Amin. The Liberation of Women; and, The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000.
HQ 1793 .Q313 2000
 

Ray, Bharati. Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
HQ 1741 .R39 2002t
 

Ray, Sangeeta. En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
HQ 1742 .R298 2000
 

Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2001.
HQ 1692 .R44 2001
 

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
HQ 1726.5 .R45 1998
 

Reuque Paillalef, Rosa Isolde. When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
F 3126 .R49 A3 2002

Robinson, Catherine A. Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women’s Movement. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
HQ 1735.3 .R63 1999
 

Roth, Benita. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
HQ 1421 .R684 2004
 

Russ, Joanna. What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
HQ 1190 .R87 1998
 

Samantrai, Ranu. AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
HQ 1593 .S25 2002
 

Shahidian, Hammed. Women in Iran. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
HQ 1735.2 .S53 2002 v. 1-2

Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998.
HQ 1788 .S57 1998
 

Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.
HQ 1726.5 .S63 1999
 

Stephen, Lynn. Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
HQ 1240.5 .L29 S74 1997
 

This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. New York: Routledge, 2002.
PS 509 .L47 T48 2002
 

Wagner, Sally Roesch. Sisters in Spirit: The Iroquois Influence on Early American Feminists. Summertown, TN: Native Voices, 2001.
HQ 1410 .W35 2001
 

Wesoky, Sharon R. Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2002.
HQ 1236.5 .C6 W47 2002
 

Westfried, Alex Huxley. Reinventing the Culture of Womanhood in America and Brazil: An Anthropological Perspective: Models for the 21st Century 1964-2001. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
HQ 1542 .W47 2002
 

White, E. Frances. Dark Continent of Out Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
HQ 1426 .W465 2001
 

Women and Power in the Middle East. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
HQ 1726.5 .W659 2001
 

Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity, and Globalisation. Ann Arbor: University of    Michigan Press, 2000.
HQ 1240.5 .A78 W63 2000
 

Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
HQ 1767 .W655 1999

             

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Videos

Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives--East and West. Princeton, NJ: Films for the humanities & Sciences, 2000.
MEDIA SERVICES V 5811
 

Through Chinese Women's Eyes. New York, NY: Women Make Movies, 1997.
MULTICULTURAL VIDEOS HQ 1767 .T47 1997t

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