Contents: Professor Shirin Kudchedkar. Felicitations to Professor Shirin Kudchedkar. Introduction. Professor Shirin Kudchedkar in conversation with Mala Pandurang and Anjali Bhelande. 1. From grassroots to ivory tower: the road to a conservative, elitist feminism/Roshan G. Shahani. 2. Gender perspectives on economic development: women's labour in India/Vibhuti Patel. 3. Re(w)riting our (Hi)story: Canadian feminists organizing for change/Barbara Godard. 4. Women's studies and higher education: taking stock/Maithreyi Krishnaraj. 5. African womanist discourse: an alternative entry point/Mala Pandurang. 6. The right to life and other questions of autobiography and performance in Binodini Dasi's my story/Susie Tharu. 7. Mapping the future: Indian women writing female subjectivities/Krishna Sarbadhikary. 8. 'A shared queerness': liminal identities in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night/Coral Ann Howells. 9. Cross-writing and the unconcluded self in Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House/David Stouck. 10. "Mice and men" and "Closeness"/Cyril Dabydeen. 11. Excerpt from Portrait of a Woman without a Body (a novel in progress)/Smaro Kamboureli. 12. Speaking their bit of truth: a feminist critique of representation/Coomi S. Vevaina. 13. Mapping the 'Invisible' terrains of female experience: women of colour in Canadian literature/Jameela Begum. 14. From splitting image/Claire Harris. 15. Cyberfeminism and the dream of a common (Hypertext) language: building babel, building a feminist future/Susan Jacob. 16. Swirling lines, pulsating page/Anjali Bhelande. 17. "Restored by words, by ground apples"/Penn Kemp. 18. Penn Kemp's vision of the extraordinary ordinary/Kamala Gopalan. 19. "My mother feared death"/Eunice de Souza. 20. Dionne brand : (No) land to light on/Leslie Sanders. 21. "Ono's cafe", "Singing in dark times" and "A city in snow"/Himani Bannerji. 22. Excerpt from The Testament of Jean-Le-Maigre to his Brothers/Marie-Claire Blais. 23. A season of despair: a testament of hope/Kiran Jani. 24. "Sheelawati": the battle of proper names/Sukhmani Roy. 25. 'Love Thy Self': the empowerment of women in Gauri Deshpande's fiction/Mamta M. Muthal. 26. Woman and milieu in the novels of Usha Priyamwada/Meenakshi Shivram. 27. Discourse on Indian womanhood in Krishna Sobti's "Mitro Marjani" and "Ai Ladki"/Sunanda Pal. 28. "A feminist poem on a flower"/Nita Ramaiya.
"This anthology brings together several major feminist voices of Third World countries and the west. The contributions, notwithstanding their varied thematic preoccupations and cultural locations, are closely focussed on the issues of gender discriminations intertwined with those of race, ethnicity, class, caste and nationality. The perceptions they offer are at once engaging and revealing and significantly contribute to the ongoing key debates in gender studies. Some of the more prominent features of the volume are indepth revaluations of Cyber feminism, Queer theory, oppositional aesthetics of marginalized writers, Marxist feminism, ecofeminism and women's spirituality/sexuality." (jacket)
