Unassimilable Feminisms

" Gillman enacts a critical recuperation of women of color feminisms . . . she approaches the feminist debates that she outlines fearlessly and with great vigor. " - Maria Cotera, Associate Professor, Women' s Studies Program & Program in American Culture (Latina/o Studies), University of Michigan and author of Native Speakers: Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González Mireles and the Poetics of Culture

" Gillman' s Unassimilable Feminisms reminds us of the ongoing need to redefine identity politics in potentially transformative ways. I can' t wait to use this important book in my teaching! " - AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women' s Studies, Texas Woman' s University, author of Teaching Transformation, and editor of The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

" Gillman' s postpositivist realism, a construct she creates using marginalized voices and experiences which then becomes a lens in her reading of them, is an important contribution to the emergence of subjugated knowledge that has been traditionally ignored. Her understanding of ' objective' as emerging from experience upon which marginalized African American and Latina women have reflected, contributes to make our voices relevant beyond our mujerista/mestiza and womanist communities. This is but one of the many contributions this book makes to epistemology and ethical understandings of moral agency and self-definition. I highly recommend this book to those who recognize the importance of subjugated knowledgefor all epistemology and liberative praxis. " - Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Theology, Drew University