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" Multicultural politics & women's activism: When do race and nation enter women's frames? "
Chanley Elizabeth Rainey
Fording, Richard C.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804213
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TL49035
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1844067624; 10162536
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Khalili, Niloofar
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Multicultural politics women's activism: When do race and nation enter women's frames?\ Chanley Elizabeth RaineyFording, Richard C.
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The University of Alabama
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Political Science
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2016
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244
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Committee members: Hale, Christopher; Kerr, Nicholas; Lahiri, Simanti; Patton, Dana
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-17325-3
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Women’s advocacy organizations often invoke moral arguments and frame issues in ways that make them legible within discourses on sexuality and race, with significance for struggles over decolonization, national representation, and schism within women’s movements. Postcolonial feminist theories help make sense of women’s activism that engages both racism and women’s rights. They provide a map of the symbolic terrain on which policy debates are fought, enabling us to identify the paths available (as well as closed) to women’s organizations as they negotiate a collective identity for their members, diagnose the problems they want to address, propose solutions, and select a strategy for persuading others to adopt their perspective. With a map like this, we can anticipate the ways in which different women’s organizations, differently positioned in terms of racial or national identity, may diverge, as well as routes to alliance. These are the tasks to which I turn when looking within the case of Trinidad and seeking to explain the different uses to which Afro-Christian, East Indian Hindu and Muslim women put race/nation in their activism.
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Social research; Womens studies; Political science
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Social sciences;Caribbean;Framing;Gender;Multiculturalism;Postcolonialism;Women's movements
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Fording, Richard C.
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Political ScienceThe University of Alabama
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