Women Out of Place The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality [Paperback]

These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in Women Out of Place: the Genderof Agency and Race of Nationalityinvestigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial and cultural redemption.Brackette Williamsis Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.