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The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.
Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film FROM THE PUBLISHER
The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.
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An anthology of 12 essays representing "third world" women writers
and film-makers from a localized perspective, intervening (as the
title tells us) in the dominant view that third world women are
passive victims needing to be liberated by Western feminists. Turning
the tables on intellectual colonialism, the contributing scholars
discuss the ways particular artists in Latin America, Asia, Africa,
and the Caribbean use their marginal positions to challenge and
resist different political structures, including nationalism,
revolutions, religious fundamentalism, and dictatorships.
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