Postcolonial Representations of Women


Rachel Bailey. Jones
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Dordrecht : : Springer, , 2011.
Omfang
1 online resource (236 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; 1 Introduction; Structure and Content; A Note on Colonial Terminology; My Positionality; My Colonial Education; Explorers, Conquistadors, and Imperialists; Women, Gender, and Sexualizing Empire; Knowledge Gained and Distributed Through Empire; The Hierarchies of Colonialism; Women Positioned in Relation to Empire; Colonial Regulation of Sexuality; Colonial Masculinity; Postcolonialism As a Strategy of Resistance; Transnational Feminisms; The Legacy of 9/11; 2 Development of Feminist Postcolonial Theory; Postcolonial Terminology; Csaire: Native Critique. - Fanon and Nandy: The Psychology of ColonialismSaid: The Culture of Imperialism; Bhabha: Identity in the Postcolonial; Postcolonial Research; Spivak and the Subaltern; A Critique of Western Feminism; Postcolonial Feminist Space; Feminist Nationalism?; Difference and the Third World Woman; Shohat and Transnational Feminism; 3 Histories of Dominance, Colonialism, and Globalization; Terminology and Distinctions in Colonialism; Distinctions in Colonialisms; Direct and Indirect Rule; The Regulation of Race and Gender in Colonialism and Neocolonialism; Mythology of the ''Dark Continent''. - Representing Self and Other. - The White Mans Burden and EducationThe Regulation of Geography; Education As a Colonial Weapon; Language As a Tool of Oppression; Race in Colonial Education; European Women in Colonial Education; The Education of Girls in Sri Lanka; Colonial Miseducation: Hawaiian Women; The Colonial Legacy: Eugenics and Education; Travel As Colonial Pedagogy; Consumer Culture and Colonial Pedagogy; Anthropologys Colonial Pedagogy; American History of Colonial Education; Official Education and Colonial Pedagogy; Colonial Themes in Education; Theme: History As Linear Progression. - Theme: Modernity As Rational Height of ProgressTheme: Pure and Authentic Cultures, Existing on Different Levels of Progressive Timeline; Theme: The Importance of the Individual Actor; Theme: Denial of Socially Constructed Categories of Difference; Patriotic Literacy; Native Americans in Textbooks; Global Colonial Education; Eurocentric Art Education; History As Linear Progression; Modernity As Rational Height of Progress; Artist As Individual Genius, Alone in His Studio; Pure and Authentic Cultures, Existing on Different Levels of the Progressive Timeline; 5 History of the Visual Regime. - Women, Sexuality, and Motherhood in the ColoniesThe Pseudo-science of Phrenology, Eugenics, and Representation; Anti-colonial Resistance; Contemporary Colonial Theme Parks; Global Relationships in the Shadow of Colonialism; Development Theory and Neocolonialism; Neocolonialism and Nationalism; Structures of Globalization; Identity Formation in the Context of the Global; Grewal: Transnational Connectivity; Diaspora Discourse; The Transcitizen; Cosmopolitan Identities; Hybrid Versus Essential Identity; 4 Distorted Visions: Ethnocentric Forms of Education; Exhibitionary Pedagogy. - In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education received in classrooms as well as 'unofficial' education ingested via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as two-dimensional stereotypes. The text
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