Women and Others

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.

Who Is the Other Woman? Miscegenation as Consolation in George Colman's Inkle and Yarico; J.Green MacDonald Fear of Family, Fear of Self: Black Southern "Othering" in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits; T.Harris Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Same Sex Relations in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor; M.Montgomery Postmodernism, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, and the Construction of the Black/Woman of Color as Primal Other; W.L.Hogue The Memsahib Myth: Englishwomen in Colonial India; I.Ghose Race, Gender, and Leadership: (En)Countering Discourses that Devalue African American Women; P.S.Parker Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the American Christian Right; A.Smith The Future of Feminism: What Other Way to Speak?; V.Ware