1 “I am not a feminist, but...”
2 Feminist theories
3 Feminisms and policy in the 20th and 21st centuries
4 The personal is political
5 Contemporary feminists on feminism
6 Conclusion
Biography
Renee Heberle is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toledo. She co-directs the interdisciplinary major Law and Social Thought and is affiliated faculty with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She was the coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program at the University of Toledo from 2010 to 2024. Her research interests focus on feminist political theory, state violence, and sexual violence. Her publications include: Theorizing Sexual Violence, co-edited with Victoria Grace (Routledge 2009) and Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (Penn State Press 2006). She has published several essays about sexual violence in feminist journals Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and in the Oxford Handbooks on Gender, Sex and Crime (2014) and Feminist Theory (2016). Her most recent work “Can Masculinity Survive the End of Sexual Violence?” is included in Gaby Zipfel, Regina Mühlhäuser, and Kirsten Campbell (eds.), In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
Examining multiple theoretical traditions and diverse policy domains, Renée Heberle illuminates historical and contemporary feminisms as complex transformative projects that challenge entrenched assumptions and established ways of being and forge new ways of thinking, new ways of living, and critical contestation over the nature and scope of knowledge and justice. At a moment when male domination and white supremacy are regrouping, this book is a most timely intervention.
Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University
