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In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of 'war,' experienced daily by women of color.

Chapter 1 Foreword
<br>Chapter 2 Preface
<br>Part 3 Part I. Working Women, Activist Academics and the Politics of Academe
<br>Chapter 4 Ella Baker "Black Women's Work" and Activist Intellectuals
<br>Chapter 5 Struggling Along the Race-Gender Academic Divide
<br>Part 6 Part II. Spoils of War: Women, Sexual Identity, and Violence
<br>Chapter 7 In the Name of Love and Survival: Interpretations of Sexual Violence among Young Black American Women
<br>Chapter 8 When a Black Woman Cries Rape: Discourses of Unrapeability/ Intraracial Sexual Violence/ and
<i>the State of Indiana v. Michael Gerald Tyson</i>
<br>Part 9 Part III. Middle Eastern Women, Feminism, and Resistance in the Postcolonial Era. Women and the Gulf War: A Crit
<br>Chapter 10 Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundamentalism
<br>Part 11 Part IV. Literary and Autobiographical Portraitures and Landscapes of Identity/ Exile/ and Gender
<br>Chapter 12 Women/ War/ and Autobiography/ and the Historiographic Metafictional Text: Unveiling the Veiled in Assia Djebar's
<i>L'amour la fantasia</i>
<br>Chapter 13 Contested Crossings: Identities, Gender, and Exile in
<i>le baobab fou</i>
<br>Chapter 14 Radical Ambiguities and the Chicana Lesbian: Body Topographies on Contested Lands
<br>Chapter 15 Afterword

RenZe T. White is assistant professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of Black Texts &amp; Textuality (Rowman &amp; Littlefield) and Putting Risk in Perspective (Rowman &amp; 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 &amp; Littlefield, 1997).