Renée T. White is assistant professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of Black Texts & Textuality (Rowman & Littlefield) and Putting Risk in Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield). Sharpley-Whiting and White also co-edited Fanon: A Critical Reader.T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is assistant professor of African-American studies at Purdue University, and the author of Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

A diverse collection of interdisciplinary voices that eloquently testifies to the ongoing historical and transnational resistance waged by women of color around the world against the many and varied forces that oppress them.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefacePart 3 Part I. Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of AcademeChapter 4 Ella Baker "Black Women's Work" and Activist IntellectualsChapter 5 Struggling Along the Race-Gender Academic DividePart 6 Part II. Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and ViolenceChapter 7 In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American WomenChapter 8 When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability/ Intraracial Sexual Violence/ and the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerald TysonPart 9 Part III. Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era. Women and the Gulf War: A CritChapter 10 Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim FundamentalismPart 11 Part IV. Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity/ Exile/ and GenderChapter 12 Women/ War/ and Autobiography/ and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's L'amour la fantasiaChapter 13 Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in le baobab fouChapter 14 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested LandsChapter 15 Afterword