White Women in Racialized Spaces - Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature

At once racially privileged and sexually marginalized, white women have been energetic in calling for solidarity among all women in opposing patriarchy, but have not been equally motivated to examine their own racial privilege. White Women in Racialized Spaces turns primarily to literature to illuminate the undeniable blind spots in white women's comprehension of their advantage. The contributors cover extensive historical ground, from early captivity narratives of white women in seventeenth-century America up to the present-day trials of Louise Woodward and Manjit Basuta. both British nannies accused of causing the deaths of their infant charges in the United States.

About the author

Samina Najmi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Babson College. Rajini Srikanth is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the coeditor, with Lavina Dhingra Shankar, of A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America.

Product details

• Assisted by: Samina Najmi (Editor), Rajini Srikanth (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9780791454787
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5478-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 231 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Suny Series in Feminist Critic; Suny Feminist Criticism and Th; SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories