Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2000
Abstract
Ever since western feminist scholarship was accused of defining gender in transhistorical and transcultural ways, there have been attempts to add the category, `woman of colour’, in feminist enterprises that rang e from the academic to the administrative. Such toke n gestures inevitably re-inscribe the problem by glossing over distinctive material histories and the particularity of women’s experiences and struggles. For those of us who refuse such additive, tokenist approaches, A Patchwork Shawl edited by Shamita Das Dasgupta is a welcome contribution. Written by South Asian immigrant and first generation women, A Patchwork Shawlis, to us e Dasgupta’s words, `a collection of stories: the stories of women’s lives ’ (p. 1) and each narrative provides a specic and vivid perspective on the South Asian gendered, immigrant experience.
Recommended Citation
Ram, A. (2000). Review of the book A patchwork shawl: Chronicles of South Asian women in America. National Identity, 2, 98-100.
Comments
Published in: National Identity, Issue 2, 2000.