Women & Others : Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Signs of Race
ISBN-10
0312296029
ISBN-13
9780312296025
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Imprint
St Martin's Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2007
Print length
205 Pages
Weight
262 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 16.30 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Gender studies: women and girlsEthnic studies / EthnicityGender studies: womenEthnic studies
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Discussing intersecting discourses of race, gender and empire in literature, history and contemporary culture, the book begins with the metaphor of 'the other woman' as a repository for the 'otherness' of all women in a masculinist-racist society and shows how discourses of race and sexuality thwart the realization of true inter-racial sisterhood.
This volume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa. It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society ''encounter'' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to the spectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity etc, our focus here is on ''encounter'', that is, the nuance and complexity of how the state shapes society and vice-versa. Through this, we depart from the standard state versus society approach that proves so limiting in explaining the African political landscape.
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