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Feminist Theory Reader

Local and Global Perspectives, 2nd Edition

Edited by Carole Mccann, Seung-kyung Kim

Published July 20th 2009 by Routledge – 564 pages

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Feminist Theory Reader, second edition, continues its unique approach of anthologizing the important works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone De Beauvoir, Gloria Anzaldua, Judith Butler, belle hooks, Nancy Hartsock, Deniz Kandiyoti,and Chandra Talpade Mohanty appear alongside cutting-edge scholarship by Paula Moya, Aiwha Ong, Raewyn Connell, Suzanne Walters, Mrinalina Sinha, and Rhacel Parreñas. The new edition significantly updates both the local and global perspectives that distinguished the first edition, incorporating themes and debates on the rise in the contemporary feminist scholarship.

Reviews

"The Feminist Theory Reader brings together a sterling collection of essays that address fundamental issues in gender studies. The anthology draws from both classic articles such as those of Butler, Hill Collins, Anzaldua and Lorde and more recently published works. A "must have" text for present and future generation of scholars, activists, students and, of course, a combination of any of these."

—Alma M. Garcia, Sociology, Santa Clara University

"At last an anthology that does not embody a mythical universal woman or make us choose between the local and global, between theory and practice, between academia and grassroots social movements. This is a wonderful classroom tool with which to theorize feminism into its global futures."

—Banu Subramaniam, Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"The first edition of Feminist Theory Reader challenged readers to think about the meanings of difference in both local and global contexts, and the second edition further challenges readers to rethink current multiracial, transnational feminist theories about globalization, citizenship, and identity. This excellent anthology will be invaluable for courses in gender and women’s studies."

—Jae Kyung Lee, Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Contents

* = new to this Second Edition

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

SECTION I: GROUNDINGS AND MOVEMENTS

Introduction

Groundings

    1. Yosano Akiko, "The Day the Mountains Move" *

    2. Inji Aflatun, "We Egyptian Women"

    3. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, " Introduction,"

    4. Elizabeth Martinez, "La Chicana"

    5. Bonnie Kreps, "Radical Feminism 1"

    6. bell hooks, "Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"

    7. Christine Delphy, "Rethinking Sex and Gender"

    8. Amrita Basu, "Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women’s Movements"

      9. Movements

    9. Deniz Kandiyoti, "Bargaining with Patriarchy" *

    10. Muriel Rukeyser, "The Poem as Mask" *

    11. "No More Miss America!"

    12. T.V. Reed, "The Poetic is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetical of Women’s Rights" *

    13. The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"

    14. Wangari Maathai, "The History of the Green Belt Movement" *

    15. Sônia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky, "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective"

    16. Leslie Feinberg, "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come" *

      17. SECTION II: THEORIZING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES

      Introduction

      Social Processes/Configuring Differences

    17. June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas"

    18. Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union"

    19. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work *

    20. Lila Abu-Lughod, "Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies" *

    21. Mrinalina Sinha, "Gender and Nation" *

    22. R.W. Connell, "The Social Organization of Masculinity" *

    23. Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman"

      24. Boundaries and Belongings

    24. Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem"

    25. Gloria Anzaldúa, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness"

    26. Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart" *

    27. Almas Sayeed, "Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz" *

    28. Audre Lorde, "I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities"

    29. Lionel Cantu with Eithne Luibheid and Alexandra Minna Stern, "Well Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" *

    30. Marie Matsuda, "Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition" *

      31. SECTION III: THEORIZING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE, AGENCY, AND POLITICS

      Introduction

      Standpoint Epistemologies/Situational Knowledges

    31. Nancy C.M. Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism"

    32. Uma Narayan, "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist"

    33. Patricia Hill Collins, "Defining Black Feminist Thought,"

    34. Chrys Ingraham, "The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender" *

    35. Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"

      36. Poststructuralist Epistemologies

    36. Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which is Not One" *

    37. Lata Mani, "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception"

    38. Sandra Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power" *

    39. Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory"

    40. Sharon Marcus, "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention" *

      41. Imagine Otherwise: Solidarity Reconsidered

    41. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "‘Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles" *

    42. Paula M.L. Moya, "Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory," *

    43. Suzanna Danuta Walters, "From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Lesbian Menace (Or, Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Fag?) *

    44. Aihwa Ong, "Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under ‘Moderate Islam’" *

    45. Malika Ndlovu, "Out of Now-here" *

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Author Bio

Carole R. McCann is Director and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty member of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research expertise includes, feminist science studies, twentieth century history of birth control, eugenics, and population, and feminist theory. Her publications include: Birth control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (Cornell University Press, 1994, 1999). She is currently working on a book manuscript about masculinities in mid-century population sciences.

Seung-kyung Kim is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty of Department of Anthropology, Department of American Studies, and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland College Park. Her research expertise includes gender, labor, and development politics, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, and women in East Asia and Asian America. Her publications include: "Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea" (Cambridge University Press, 1997). The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is currently working on two book manuscripts: Women’s Movements in Democratic South Korea: The Trajectory of Institutionalization and the Loss of Autonomy which was funded by the Korea Foundation, and Global Citizens in the Making?: Transnational Migration and Education in Kirogi Families, which was funded by the Social Science Research Council.

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Description: Edited by Carole Mccann, Seung-kyung Kim. Feminist Theory Reader, second edition, continues its unique approach of anthologizing the important works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone De Beauvoir, Gloria...
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