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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds | 18 |
| Histories of Colonialism | 19 | |
| Declension Narratives | 19 | |
| Southeast Asia: sex-role complementarity? | 21 | |
| Case Studies: India, China, Japan | 23 | |
| Modernisation and Tradition: Histories of the Veil | 29 | |
| Classifying Women's Worlds: First, Second, Third? | 34 | |
| Empirical indicators: 'more than 100 million women are missing' | 39 | |
| Fracturing Binarisms: Postcolonial Desire | 44 | |
| Orientalism | 46 | |
| Hybridisation | 52 | |
| 2 | Individual versus Community | 57 |
| Constructing and Deconstructing the Western Individual | 58 | |
| Speaking the 'Self' | 60 | |
| The Ties That Bind | 63 | |
| Human Rights or Western Rights? | 69 | |
| Universal Declarations of Human Rights | 70 | |
| Refracting Rights Through Needs | 74 | |
| Agency and 'Customary Practices' | 79 | |
| Infibulation | 80 | |
| Sati | 88 | |
| 3 | Mothers and Wives | 97 |
| Mothers, Wives and Sisters | 97 | |
| Reproductive Labour and its Products | 99 | |
| Population Policies | 101 | |
| To Have and to Hold: Reproductive Choices | 110 | |
| The Powers of Mothers | 112 | |
| The Double-edged Significance of 'Black Matriarch' | 114 | |
| Sisters in Struggle | 117 | |
| Brideprice, Dowry and Patrilocality | 120 | |
| Brideprice, Dowry and Domestic Violence | 121 | |
| Patrilocality and Mothers-in-Law | 123 | |
| 4 | Sexual Identities: Western Imperialism? | 129 |
| 'Core' Sexual Identities in the West | 131 | |
| Sexual Confessions: Christianity and Foucault | 131 | |
| Sexual Expression: Freud and the Sexologists | 133 | |
| Masculinities and the Monstrous Feminine | 134 | |
| Pollution or Pornography? | 136 | |
| Mother-Son Bonds | 141 | |
| Speaking With Two Lips to Recognise Third Genders | 147 | |
| Homosexual Acts and Homosexual Lives | 148 | |
| Third Genders | 154 | |
| Sexual Identities Invade the Interior of Colonised Subjects? | 160 | |
| Little Honesty in China: Prostitutes or Concubines? | 160 | |
| Women's Magazines in Singapore and India | 162 | |
| Conclusion: Post-sex | 165 | |
| 5 | The International Traffic in Women | 167 |
| International Connections Between Women | 167 | |
| The International Decade for Women | 169 | |
| Trade: Freedom Through Labour? | 173 | |
| Unpaid Unseen Women's Labour | 174 | |
| Women's Paid Labour: The Free-Trade Zones | 176 | |
| Prostitution and Sex Tourism | 180 | |
| Aid: International Bounty? | 186 | |
| The Doubled Vision of Migrant Indigenous Women | 188 | |
| Refugees | 188 | |
| Eating Her Words: Multiculturalism | 191 | |
| Women's Studies and Women's Politics | 196 | |
| Women's Studies | 196 | |
| Women's Movements Around the World: New Practices for Old Battles | 199 | |
| Conclusion: Braiding at the Borderlands | 206 | |
| Speaking and Subject Positions | 208 | |
| Seeing 'Our' 'Selves' Through the Eyes of 'Others' | 211 | |
| Coalition Politics | 216 | |
| Endnotes | 222 | |
| Bibliography | 226 | |
| Index | 266 |
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Timothy Leto
reviewed Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diveristy in a Postcolonial World on May 31, 2009 Re-Orienting Western Feminisms
Fascinating insight into non western feminisms. Important global perspective, very well written.
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