Global Critical Race Feminism Critical America General Editors: RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race Ian F. Haney López Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching Louise Harmon and Deborah W. Post Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America Stephanie M. Wildman with Margalynne Armstrong, Adrienne D. Davis, and Trina Grillo Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good’s the Constitution When You Can’t Afford a Loaf of Bread? R. George Wright Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits under American Law Ruth Colker Critical Race Feminism: A Reader Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States Edited by Juan F. Perea Taxing America Edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action Bryan K. Fair Please Don’t Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State Stephen M. Feldman ToBe an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation Bill Ong Hing Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America Jody David Armour Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation Bill Piatt Black Rage Confronts the Law Paul Harris Selling Words: Free Speech in a Commercial Culture R. George Wright The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions Katheryn K. Russell The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law Robert L. Hayman, Jr. Was Blind, but Now I See: White Race Consciousness and the Law Barbara J. Flagg The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law Nancy Levit Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nation’s Legal Faith David Ray Papke The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education Arthur Austin Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post–Civil Rights America Eric K. Yamamoto Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader Edited by Devon Carbado When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice Edited by Roy L. Brooks Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State Robert S. Chang Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom Andrew E. Taslitz The Passions of Law Edited by Susan Bandes Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing Global Critical Race Feminism An International Reader Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing Foreword by Angela Y. Davis a N E W Y O R K U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S • N e w Yo r k & L o n d o n NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London Copyright © 2000 by New York University and Adrien Katherine Wing All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global critical race feminism : an international reader / edited by Adrien Katherine Wing ; foreword by Angela Y. Davis. p. cm. — (Critical America) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8147-9338-X (paper : acid-free paper) — ISBN 0-8147-9337-1 (cloth : acid-free paper) 1. Minority women—Legal status, laws, etc. I. Wing, Adrien Katherine. II. Title. III. Series. K644 .G59 2000 346.01'34—dc21 00-008391 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Foreword xi Angela Y. Davis Acknowledgments xv Introduction:Global Critical Race Feminism for the Twenty-First Century 1 Adrien Katherine Wing PART 1 Encounters with the “F” Word: Responses to Feminism 1 Turning the Gaze Back on Itself: Comparative Law, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Postcolonial Project 27 Brenda J. Cossman 2 Toward a Feminist Internationality: A Critique of U.S. Feminist Legal Scholarship 42 Vasuki Nesiah 3 Themes for a Conversation on Race and Gender in International Human Rights Law 53 Celina Romany 4 Comparative Analysis of Women’s Issues: Toward a Contextualized Methodology 67 Antoinette Sedillo Lopez vii viii | Contents 5 Féminismes sans Frontières? The Cuban Challenge— Women, Equality, and Culture 81 Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol 6 Women (Under)Development: Poor Women of Color in the United States and the Right to Development 95 Hope Lewis PART 2 Third World within the First: On Being “Othered” 7 Motherhood and Work in Cultural Context: One Woman’s Patriarchal Bargain 115 Devon W. Carbado 8 Discrimination in New Zealand: A Personal Journey 129 Mai Chen 9 African Women in France: Immigration, Family, and Work 141 Judy Scales-Trent 10 Filthy, Old, and Ugly: Gypsy Women from Serbia 160 Zorica Mrsevic PART 3 From Pathbreakers to Founding Mothers: Historical Perspectives 11 Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War 179 Mary L. Dudziak 12 United States Foreign Policy and Goler Teal Butcher 192 J. Clay Smith, Jr. 13 Founding Mothers and Contemporary Latin American Constitutions: Colombian Women, Constitution Making, and the New Constitutional Court 204 Martha I. Morgan with the collaboration of Mónica María Alzate Buitrago PART 4 Human Rights Confronts Culture, Custom, and Religion 14 Deconstructing Patriarchal Jurisprudence in Islamic Law: A Faithful Approach 221 Azizah Y. al-Hibri Contents | ix 15 For the Sake of the Country, for the Sake of the Family: The Oppressive Impact of Family Registration on Women in Japan 234 Taimie L. Bryant 16 Female Infanticide in China: The Human Rights Specter and Thoughts toward (An)Other Vision 251 Sharon K. Hom 17 Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign against Female Circumcision 260 Leslye Amede Obiora 18 Uneasy Alliances and Solid Sisterhood: A Response to Professor Obiora’s “Bridges and Barricades” 275 Isabelle R. Gunning 19 Families, Fatherlessness, and Women’s Human Rights: An Analysis of the Clinton Administration’s Public Housing Policy as a Violation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 285 Lisa A. Crooms PART 5 Violence against Women: Family Terrorism, Rape, and Sexual Harassment 20 Violence against Aboriginal Women in Australia: Possibilities for Redress within the International Human Rights Framework 303 Penelope E. Andrews 21 Domestic Violence in Ghana: An Initial Step 317 Rosemary Ofeibea Ofei-Aboagye King 22 A Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian Women 332 Adrien Katherine Wing 23 Puerto Rico’s Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Law: The Limitations of Legislative Responses 347 Jenny Rivera