Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives

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Carole R. McCann, Seung-kyung Kim
Routledge, Jul 7, 2016 - Social Science - 688 pages

The fourth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader continues to challenge readers to rethink the complex meanings of difference outside of contemporary Western feminist contexts. This new edition contains a new subsection on intersectionality. New readings turn readers’ attention to current debates about violence against women, sex work, care work, transfeminisms, and postfeminism. The fourth edition also continues to expand the diverse voices of transnational feminist scholars throughout, with particular attention to questions of class.

Introductory essays at the beginning of each section bring the readings together, provide historical and intellectual context, and point to critical additional readings. Five core theoretical concepts—gender, difference, women’s experiences, the personal is political, and intersectionality—anchor the anthology’s organizational framework. New to this edition, text boxes in the introductory essays add excerpts from the writings of foundational theorists that help define important theoretical concepts, and content by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Cathy Cohen, Emi Koyama, Na Young Lee, Angela McRobbie, Viviane Namaste, Vrushali Patil, and Jasbir Puar.

 

Contents

Feminist Theory Local and Global Perspectives
1
INTRODUCTION THEORIZING FEMINIST TIMES AND SPACES
9
Feminist Movements
31
Yosano Akiko The Day the Mountains Move
32
Nancy A Hewitt ReRooting American Womens Activism Global Perspectives on 1848
33
Linda Nicholson Feminism in Waves Useful Metaphor or Not?
43
Becky Thompson Multiracial Feminism Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism
51
Amrita Basu Globalization of the LocalLocalization of the Global Mapping Transnational Womens Movements
63
Minnie Bruce Pratt Identity Skin Blood Heart
313
Audre Lorde I am Your Sister Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities
320
Lionel Cantú Jr with Eithne Luibhéid and Alexandra Minna Stern Well Founded Fear Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the ...
325
Leila Ahmed The Veil DebateAgain
335
Obioma Nnaemeka Foreword Locating FeminismsFeminists
347
INTRODUCTION THEORIZING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE AND AGENCY
351
Standpoints and Situational Knowledge
367
Nancy C M Hartsock The Feminist Standpoint Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
368

Dorothy Sue Cobble Lost Visions of Equality The Labor Origins of the Next Womens Movement
72
Michelle V Rowley The Idea of Ancestry Of Feminist Genealogies and Many Other Things
80
Local Identities and Politics
87
Muriel Rukeyser The Poem as Mask
88
T V Reed The Poetical is the Political Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Womens Rights
89
Deniz Kandiyoti Bargaining with Patriarchy
103
Elizabeth Martinez La Chicana
112
The Combahee River Collective A Black Feminist Statement
115
Shulamith Firestone The Culture of Romance
122
Cheryl Clarke Lesbianism An Act of Resistance
128
Kathy Miriam Stopping the Traffic in Women Power Agency and Abolition in Feminist Debates over SexTrafficking
136
Emi Koyama The Transfeminist Manifesto
150
INTRODUCTION THEORIZING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES
161
Intersectionality
181
Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana Critical Thinking about Inequality An Emerging Lens
182
Jennifer C Nash ReThinking Intersectionality
194
Vrushali Patil From Patriarchy to Intersectionality A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far Weve Really Come
204
Social ProcessesConfiguring Differences
213
Heidi Hartmann The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism Towards a More Progressive Union
214
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Servants of Globalization Women Migration and Domestic Work
229
Lila AbuLughod Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies
245
Mrinalini Sinha Gender and Nation
254
Andrea Smith Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy Rethinking Women of Color Organizing
273
Monique Wittig One Is Not Born a Woman
282
Raewyn Connell The Social Organization of Masculinity
288
Boundaries and Belongings
301
Donna Kate Rushin The Bridge Poem
302
June Jordan Report from the Bahamas
304
Patricia Hill Collins Defining Black Feminist Thought
384
Chandra Talpade Mohanty Under Western Eyes Revisited Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles
401
Cathy J Cohen Punks Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?
419
Cherríe Moraga The Welder
436
Subject Formation and Performativity
439
Donna Haraway Situated Knowledges The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
440
Lata Mani Multiple Mediations Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception
452
Sandra Lee Bartky Foucault Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
466
Judith Butler Performative Acts and Gender Constitution An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
481
INTRODUCTION IMAGINE OTHERWISESOLIDARITY RECONSIDERED
493
Bodies and Affects
509
Alison M Jaggar Love and Knowledge Emotion in Feminist Epistemology
510
Kathy Davis Reclaiming Womens Bodies Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology?
525
Sara Ahmed Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness
539
Bettina Judd In 2006 I Had an Ordeal with Medicine
555
Solidarity Reconsidered
557
Paula M L Moya Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory
558
NaYoung Lee The Korean Womens Movement of Japanese Military Comfort Women Navigating between Nationalism and Feminism
576
Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Intimate Labors Cultures Technologies and the Politics of CareIntroduction
586
Jasbir K Puar I Would Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess Becoming Intersectional in Assemblage Theory
594
Viviane Namaste Undoing Theory The Transgender Question and the Epistemic Violence of AngloAmerican Feminist Theory
608
Angela McRobbie Beyond PostFeminism
622
Malika Ndlovu Out of Nowhere
627
Works Cited
629
Credits
654
Index
657
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Carole R. McCann is Professor and Chair of Gender + Women’s Studies, Affiliate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture, and Special Assistant to the Provost for Interdisciplinary Activities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Seung-kyung Kim is Korea Foundation Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director of the Institute for Korean Studies in the School of Global and International Studies; and affiliate faculty of the Gender Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington.

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