ABSTRACT

These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in Women Out of Place: the Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality investigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial and cultural redemption.

chapter |33 pages

Introduction

Mannish Women and Gender After the Act

part |124 pages

Essentialism and Gendered Movements

chapter |29 pages

Race/Class/Gender Ideology in Guatemala

Modern and Anti-Modern Forms

chapter |24 pages

Multiple Alterities

The Contouring of Gender in Miao and Chinese Nationalisms

chapter |26 pages

“Fit Citizens for the British Empire?”

Classifying Racial and Gendered Subjects in “Godzone” (New Zealand)

chapter |30 pages

A Race of Men, A Class of Women

Nation, Ethnicity, Gender, and Domesticity Among Afro-Guyanese

part |111 pages

“Wombs” of Nationalist Respectability and the Problem of Patri-Racial Redemption

chapter |25 pages

“Feminism, the Murderer of Mothers”

The Rise and Fall of Neo-nationalist Reconstruction of Gender in Hungary

chapter |30 pages

“And Your Prayers Shall Be Answered Through the Womb of a Woman”

Insurgent Masculine Redemption and the Nation of Islam

chapter |29 pages

Boudoir Politics and the Birthing of the Nation

Sex, Marriage, and Structural Deflection in the National Black Independent Political Party

chapter |25 pages

“Business Story is Better Than Love”

Gender, Economic Development, and Nationalist Ideology in Tanzania