C. Daileader & R. Johnson 
Women and Others 
Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire

Discussing intersecting discourses of race, gender and empire in literature, history and contemporary culture, the book begins with the metaphor of ‘the other woman’ as a repository for the ‘otherness’ of all women in a masculinist-racist society and shows how discourses of race and sexuality thwart the realization of true inter-racial sisterhood.

Table of Content

Who Is the Other Woman? Miscegenation as Consolation in George Colman’s Inkle and Yarico; J.Green Mac Donald Fear of Family, Fear of Self: Black Southern ‘Othering’ in Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits; T.Harris Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Same Sex Relations in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor; M.Montgomery Postmodernism, Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, and the Construction of the Black/Woman of Color as Primal Other; W.L.Hogue The Memsahib Myth: Englishwomen in Colonial India; I.Ghose Race, Gender, and Leadership: (En)Countering Discourses that Devalue African American Women; P.S.Parker Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the American Christian Right; A.Smith The Future of Feminism: What Other Way to Speak?; V.Ware

About the author

CELIA R. DAILEADER is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA.

RHODA E. JOHNSON is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and African American Studies at The University of Alabama, USA.

AMILCAR SHABAZZ is Associate Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at Oklahoma State University, USA.