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Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Religious Discourse This page intentionally left blank First published in Great Britain 2002 by Routledge Published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2002 by Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. “Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies” by Miriam Cooke originally published in Nepantla, 1:1 (2000), pp. 91-110. Copyright 2000, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. A version of “Body, Representation, and Black Religious Discourse” by M. Shawn Copeland appears as “The Wounds of Jesus, the Wounds of My People” in Telling the Truth: Preaching against Sexual and Domestic Violence, ed. John S. McClure and Nancy J. Ramsey (Cleveland: United Church Press, 1998). Used by permission. Portions of “Sartorial Fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western Feminism” adapted from Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism by Meyda Yeğenoğlu (Cam bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. “Captivity” in Jacklight by Louise Erdrich, © 1984 by Louise Erdrich. Reprinted by per mission of Henry Holt and Company. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Postcolonialism, feminism and religious discourse / edited by Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui-lan. p. cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92887-7 —ISBN 0-415-92888-5 (pbk.) 1. Women and religion. 2. Feminism—Religious aspects. 3. Postcolonialism. I. Donaldson, Laura E. II. Kwok Pui-lan. BL458 .P67 2001 200'.82—dc21 00-062815 ISBN 978-1-315-02327-4 (eISBN) Contents Ac kno w l edg ment s ix Int r o duc t io n 1 Part One: Challenging Feminist Religious Discourse 1. The Breasts of Columbus: A Political Anatomy of Postcolonialism and Feminist Religious Discourse 41 Laura E. Donaldson 2. Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse 62 Kwok Pui-lan 3. Sartorial Fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western Feminism 82 Meyda Yegenoglu 4. Postcoloniality, Feminist Spaces, and Religion 100 Musa W. Dube V vi ♦ Contents Part Two: Rethinking Texts and Traditions 5. The Prostitutes Gold: Women, Religion, and Sanskrit in One Corner of India 123 Laurie L. Patton 6. Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies 142 Miriam Cooke 7. Letting Go of Liberalism: Feminism and the Emancipation of the Jews 161 Laura Levitt 8. Body, Representation, and Black Religious Discourse 180 M. Shawn Copeland Sel ect ed Bibl iography 199 Co n t r ibu t o r s 213 Index 215 In loving memory of our fathers, fames Carmichael Donaldson and Kwok Kut This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Any book represents the combined effort of many people: the authors, the editors, the production staff, and all those whose scholarly work have informed our perspectives. In this vein, we would like to thank the Women and Religion Section and the Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group of the American Academy of Religion for sponsoring the panel from which the idea for this anthology was engendered, as well as the many col- leagues who have encouraged us along the way. Special appreciation goes to the Episcopal Divinity School for support from the Theological Writing Fund. Our research assistants, Anna Greenwood, Thomas Eoyang, and Wes- ley Kisting, provided critical help in preparing the manuscripts. We are grateful to the editors and staff at Routledge, William P. Germano, Mathew Byrnie, Damian Treffs, and Henry Bashwiner, for their helpful com- ments and for shepherding the manuscripts at various stages of production. We thank Gretchen Grimshaw for her help in proofreading. We would also like to thank our families for their patient cooperation in this effort. Laura thanks Mike, whose humor, capacity for loving and flyfish- ing acumen proved such an irrepressible combination. Pui-lan wants to thank her family for their steadfast support for her scholarly pursuit, giving her time and peace of mind to think and work.
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