Women of Color

DIANE LONG HOEVELER is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program at Marquette University. She has published numerous books, and her articles have appeared in such journals as Studies in Short Fiction, 19th-century Literature, and Essays in Literature.JANET K. BOLES is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, where she teaches courses on the politics of race, gender, and ethnicity and on women in American politics. Her previous books include The Egalitarian City (Praeger, 1985).

• Foreword by Toni-Michelle Travis Introduction by Diane Long Hoeveler Theoretical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Identity Defining Differences: Feminism, Race Theory, and Identity Politics in the Academy by Nina Manasan Greenberg The Uses of Silence: Notes on the "Will to Unsay" by Patti Duncan Women Networking with Their Neighbors: The Universal Thread of Civic Activism by Janet K. Boles Bearing Subaltern Witness: Rigoberta Menchu's Testimonio and Our Human Identity by Lance Grahn Standpoint Epistemology and Women of Color by Jorge Valadez Raising and Listening to Our Voices Ethical Authority and Women Writers of Color by Mary Sullivan Haller Postcolonial Daughters: Nairobi, Beijing, and Paule Marshall by Laura H. Roskos Like Words for Pain/Like Water for Chocolate Mouths, Wombs, and the Mexican Women's Novel by Diane Long Hoeveler Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Experimentation in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherr'e Moraga and Maxine Hong Kingston by Rosetta R. Haynes Growing Up Desperately: The Adolescent 'Other' in the Novels of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Michelle Cliff by Nancy Backes The Theater of the New World (B)Orders: Performing Cultural Criticism with Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Anna Deavere Smith by Jennifer Drake Praxis Curriculum Reform, Women's Studies, and Women of Color by Arlene Sgoutas Librarians and Women's Studies Programs by Arglenda Friday