Postcolonialism Feminism and Religious Discourse

Contributors examine white feminist theology's misappropriations of Native North American women, Chinese footbinding, and veiling by Muslim women, as well as the Jewish emancipation in France, the symbolic dismemberment of black women by rap and sermons, and the potential to rewrite and reclaim canonical stories. Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Challenging Feminist Religious Discourse; 1. The Breasts of Columbus: A Political Anatomy of Postcolonialism and Feminist Religious Discourse, Laura E. Donaldson; 2. Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse, Kwok Pui-lan; 3. Sartorial Fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western Feminism, Meyda Yegenoglu; 4. Postcoloniality, Feminist Spaces, and Religion, Musa W. Dube; Part Two: Rethinking Texts and Traditions; 5. The Prostitute's Gold: Women, Religion, and Sanskrit in One Corner of India, Laurie L. Patton; 6. Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies, Miriam Cooke; 7. Letting Go of Liberalism: Feminism and the Emancipation of the Jews, Laura Levitt; 8. Body, Representation, and Black Religious Discourse, M. Shawn Copeland; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index