Sharpened Edge

This collection of essays examines the relationship of women of color''s armed resistance to their aesthetic struggles tension and transformation in feminist practice and the impact of the gender-based design of state-sponsored terror human rights debates and the economic development for women of color.Athey brings together new scholarship testing the possibility of transnational feminist action and theorizing historical and contemporary aspects of resistance for women of color. Included are essays by and about women of Africa India and the Americas including women of African American Chicana Puerto Rican and Yaqui origins. Essays examine regional and historical contexts to demonstrate the central role of women of color in armed resistance struggle and in sustaining cultures of resistance despite the fact that the agency speech and writing of women of color have received the least attention in studies of resistance.Contributors challenge thinking across many disciplines: sociology literary and cultural studies history political science and education. Resistance struggles examined include women in armed struggle for national self-determination political and economic struggle for human rights and against state-sponsored repression; and women sustaining political and cultural resistance against specific religious feminist or nationalist doctrines and against the repression of multiple forms of political sexual intellectual and artistic expression.