Feminist Studies An Introductory Reader

List of Contributors

Introducing This Volume

Section 1: Feminist Epistemologies and Frameworks: Asking Questions in Feminist Ways

Introduction

Part I: Feminist Historiography

I.1 Telling Feminist Stories

Clare Hemmings

I.2 Transgender History

Susan Stryker

I.3 Feminist Historiography: Constructing the Past in the Present and for the Future

Agatha Beins

I.4 Calling All Chicana Feminist Theorists, Trans Historians, and Queer Femme Scholars: Abject Epistemologies in Feminist Theory Historiography

Stacy I. Macias

Part II: Power

II.1 The History of Sexuality Volume I

Michel Foucault

II.2 Can the Subaltern Speak?

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

II.3 “People with Uteruses”: Uterine Transplantation, In/fertility, and Trans Pregnancy

Tate Serletti

II.4 Feminists Disrupt Power: Rape and the Heterogeneity of Subjugated Resistance

Melinda Chen

PART III: Materiality

III.1 Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse

Rosemary Hennessy

III.2 Animacies

Mel Y. Chen

III.3 Materiality, Compulsory Sexuality, and Sexual Desire

Kristina Gupta

III.4 Disruptive Diffusion: Materiality and the Politics of AI-Generated Art

Allison (AP) Pierce

PART IV: Affect

IV.1 Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

IV.2 Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology

Sara Ahmed

IV.3 A Body-Grounded View of China’s Neoliberal Transition

Charlie Yi Zhang

IV.4 Out of Line

Abraham Weil

PART V: State Institutions

V.1 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Wendy Brown

V.2 Terrorist Assemblages

Jasbir Puar

V.3 A State of Contradictions

Kelly Sharron

V.4 Mak Nyahs and the Subject of Rights: Perversity, Piety, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Malaysia

Azza Basarudin

PART VI: Political Economy

VI.1 Wages Against Housework

Silvia Federici

VI.2 Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics

Kathi Weeks

VI.3 What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Elizabeth Verklan

VI.4 When the Office Is Family: Queering Social Reproduction under Startup Capitalism

Hemangini Gupta

Section 2: Feminist Ontologies: On Feminist Ways of Being

Introduction

PART VII: Experience

VII.1 The Evidence of Experience

Joan W. Scott

VII.2 Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception

Lata Mani

VII.3 press, release, return: Edging Towards the Subject, or Filipinx Feminist Form in Three Parts

Anna M. Moncada Storti

VII.4 Experience-as-Expertise: Cis Women Athletes and Anti-Trans Sentiment

CJ Jones

PART VIII: Identity

VIII.1 Gender Trouble

Judith Butler

VIII.2 Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics

Cathy Cohen

VIII.3 Performative Disruption: The Lesbian Avengers Civil Rights Organizing Project and the Threat of Rural Homophobia

Jae Basiliere

VIII.4 Identity Politics and Queer Theory’s Welfare Genealogies

Victor Ultra Omni

PART IX: Intersectionality

IX.1 Mapping the Margins

Kimberlé Crenshaw

IX.2 Rethinking Intersectionality

Jennifer Nash

IX.3 Sleeping Babies, Technology, and the Construction of Risk

Laura Harrison

IX.4 Reading at the Nexus of Neglect and Fetishization: The “Occult” of Intersectionality

Vivian M. May

PART X: Reproductive Justice

X.1 Reproductive Justice: An Introduction

Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger

X.2 The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

X.3 Intersectional Feminism and the Health Humanities

Rachel Dudley

X.4 “To Claim My Own Body”: Vaginismus as a Reproductive, Feminist, and Disability Justice Issue

Jennifer Musial

Section 3: Feminist Orientations: New Directions in the Field

Introduction

PART XI: Critical Geographies

XI.1 Toward a Decolonial Feminism

María Lugones

XI.2 Global Divas

Martin Manalansan

XI.3 Traveling the Topographies of Mexico City’s Lesbian Spaces

Anahi Russo Garrido

XI.4 Mobility, Marginality, and Decoloniality in Feminist Theories of Place

Christina Holmes

PART XII: Film and Media

XII.1 Witch’s Flight 

Kara Keeling

XII.2 The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminism in an Age of Terror

Mimi Thi Nguyen

XII.3 Beautiful Activists: A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Race in Essence Magazine, 1970

Ayana K. Weekley

XII.4 Boss: Beyoncé’s Rhetorical Performance of Black Womanhood

Zakiya R. Adair

PART XIII: Feminist Science and Technology Studies

XIII.1 Cyborg Manifesto

Donna Haraway

XIII.2 Egg and Sperm: A Scientific Fairytale

Emily Martin

XIII.3 Feminist and Queer STS

David A. Rubin

XIII.4 More than Cyborgs: Metaphors for Thinking, Surviving, and Gathering

Clare Jen

PART XIV: More-Than-Human Attunements

XIV.1 Mohawk Mothers’ Milk

Winona LaDuke

XIV.2 Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

XIV.3 Transing Difference

Dylan McCarthy Blackston

XIV.4 A Feminist Study of Breathing

Stina Soderling

Section 4: Feminist Resistance: Mapping Multiple Futures

Introduction

PART XV: Institutionalization

XV.1 The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

Roderick A. Ferguson

XV.2 In the Shadow of the Shadow State

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

XV.3 Holly Near on Tour with the National Women’s Studies Association

Rachel Corbman

XV.4 In the University, But Not of It: The Diversity Industry vs. Queer Epistemologies

Carly Thomsen

PART XVI: Meaning-Making

XVI.1 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Gloria Anzaldúa

XVI.2 Against the Romance of Community

Miranda Joseph

XVI.3 Lesbian Feminism and the Challenge of Community

Mairead Sullivan

XVI.4 Self-Craft and Coalition: Toward a New Class Consciousness

Leigh Dodson

PART XVII: Revolution

XVII.1 Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First Century

Angela Y. Davis

XVII.2 Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex

Critical Resistance and INCITE

XVII.3 Mutuality in Mutual Aid: Radical Care, Mask Making, and the Auntie Sewing Squad

Preeti Sharma

XVII.4 From Demands to Action: Using Transformative Justice to address Sexual Violence

Abigail Barefoot

PART XVIII: Speculative Futures

XVIII.1 On Racism

 Octavia Butler

XVIII.2 Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black Is the New Black—A 21st Century Manifesto

D. Scot Miller

XVIII.3 The Future-Past Is Disabled

Erin L. Durban

XVIII.4 Speculations Beyond Real Estate

Erin McElroy

Index

Biography

Hemangini Gupta is Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India.Her work is published in Feminist Review, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Feminist Studies journals amongst others. Gupta completed her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.

Kelly Sharron is Assistant Teaching Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Sharron’s work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. Sharron completed her Ph.D. in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona.

Carly Thomsen is Associate Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She is the author of Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming. Her work appears in various academic journals and media outlets, including Signs, Political Geography, New York Times, Ms., and others.  Her Feminist Studies Ph.D. is from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Abraham Weil is a scholar of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on radical political formations, anti-black racism, trans theorizing, and philosophy. Weil completed their Ph.D. in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Their work appears in Social Text, Critical Inquiry, The Black Scholar, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities.