6th Edition
Feminist Theory Reader Local and Global Perspectives
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION – Defining Terms
SECTION I: Remembering Feminist Movements
Introductory Essay
Box 1. Nancy Hewitt – Seneca Falls in the World of 1848
Box 2. Simone De Beauvoir – The Other
Box 3. Gayle Rubin – Sex/Gender System
Box 4. Audre Lorde – Poetry is Not a Luxury & Transformation of Silence
1. The Day the Mountains Move - Yosano Akiko
2. Women’s Liberation: Seeing the Revolution Clearly - Sara M. Evans
3. Inter- and Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice in Triple Jeopardy and Conditions - Julie Enszer and Agatha Beins
4. Unsettling Third Wave Feminism - Leela Fernandes
5. Pregnant? Need Help? Call Jane - Rebecca Kluchin
6. Opening Doors for Feminism: UN World Conferences on Women - Charlotte Bunch
7. Bargaining with Patriarchy - Deniz Kandiyoti
8. Wages Against Housework - Sylvia Federici
9. A Black Feminist Statement - The Combahee River Collective
10. La Chicana - Elizabeth Martinez
11. Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance - Cheryl Clarke
12. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics - Kimberlé Crenshaw
13. Critical Resistance-Incite! Statement on Gender Violence And the Prison-Industrial Complex - Critical Resistance-Incite!
14. Understanding Reproductive Justice - Loretta Ross
15. Transnational Women’s Health Movements - Rosalind Petchesky
16. The Transfeminist Manifesto - Emi Koyama
17. Reweaving the World, Introduction - Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein
SECTION II. Theorizing Intersecting Identities and Systems of Oppression
Box 5. Adrienne Rich – The Politics of Location
Box 6. Gloria Anzaldúa – Mestiza Consciousness
Box 7. Edward Said – Orientalism
Box 8. Walter Mignolo- Decolonization Re/Configurations of Difference
18. Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing - Andrea Smith
19. Contradictions of Capital and Care - Nancy Fraser
20. Gender and Nation - Mrinalini Sinha
21. The Many Destinations of Transnational Feminism - Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer
22. Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy - Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill
23. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
24. Masculinities in Global Perspective: hegemony, contestation, and changing structures of power - Raewyn Connell
Revisiting Intersectionality
25. Re-thinking Intersectionality - Jennifer C. Nash
26. From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We’ve Really Come - Vrushali Patil
27. Intersectionality in a Transnational World - Bandana Purkayastha
28. The Palestinian Feminist Movement and the Settler Colonial Ordeal: An Intersectional and Interdependent Framework - Eman Alasah
Boundaries and Belongings
29. The Bridge Poem - Donna Kate Rushin
30. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness - bell hooks
31. Report from the Bahamas - June Jordan
32. Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart - Minnie Bruce Pratt
33. I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities - Audre Lorde
34. Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries - Simone Chess, Alison Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson
35. Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization - Obioma Nnaemeka
36. Settler Xicana: Postcolonial and Decolonial Reflections on Incommensurability - Aimee Carrillo Rowe
SECTION III: Theorizing Feminist Knowledge Production
Introductory Essay
Box 9 - Patricia Hill Collins – Matrix of Domination
Box 10 - Chandra Talpade Mohanty – “Under Western Eyes”
Box 11 - Chela Sandoval – Oppositional Consciousness
Box 12 - Michel Foucault – Normalization
Box 13 - Judith Butler – The Gender Binary
Standpoints and Situated Knowledges
37. The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism - Nancy C.M. Hartsock
38. Defining Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
39. “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
40. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective - Donna Haraway
41. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics - Cathy J. Cohen
42. The Welder - Cherríe Moraga
Subject Formation and Performativity
43. Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception - Lata Mani
44. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power - Sandra Lee Bartky
45. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory - Judith Butler
46. Postfeminism, Popular Feminism and Neoliberal Feminism? - Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill, and Catherine Rottenberg
47. For Western Girls Only? Post-Feminism as Transnational Culture - Simidele Dosekun
Embodied and Affective Knowledge
48. Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology - Alison M. Jaggar
49. Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness - Sara Ahmed
50. Reclaiming Women’s Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? - Kathy Davis
51. Provincializing Intersex: US Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Transnational Body Politics - David Rubin
52. The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and Disability in Wartime - Nirmala Erevelles
53. Matter in the Shadows: New Feminism Materialisms and the Practices of Colonialism - Deboleena Roy and Banu Subramaniam
54. In 2006 I Had an Ordeal with Medicine - Bettina Judd
SECTION IV: Solidarities Reconsidered: Imagine Otherwise
Introductory Essay
Box 14 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – The Politics of Translation
Box 15 - Dean Spade – Mutual Aid
Box 16 - Vandana Shiva – Women’s Ecological Struggles
Box 17 – Jasbir Puar – Homonationalism
55. “I’m a Citizen of the Universe”: Gloria Anzaldua’s Spiritual Activism as Catalyst for Social Change - AnaLouise Keating
56. Undoing Theory: The ‘Transgender Question’ and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory - Viviane Namaste
57. Ni Una Menos and the Politics of Translation - Cecilia Palmeiro
58. Eco/Feminism and Rewriting the End of Feminism: From the Chipko Movement to Clayoquot Sound - Niamh Moore
59. Women in Black and Men in Pink: Protesting Against the Israeli Occupation - Dalit Baum
60. “We Are in Quarantine but Caring Does Not Stop”: Mutual Aid as Radical Care in Brazil - Carolina Moraes, Juma Santos, and Mariana Prandini Assis
61. Abolition. Feminism. Now - Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
62. Feminism and Geopolitics: A Collaborative Project on the Cunning of Gender Violence - Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, and Laura Charney
63. Out of Now-Here - Malika Ndlovu
Works Cited
Credits
Biography
Carole R. McCann is Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research interests include transnational feminist science studies, reproductive justice movements, and the history of demography and eugenics.
Emek Ergun is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is an activist feminist translator and her most recent translations are of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men.
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.
"Building on the rich cross-border engagements that characterized previous editions of the Feminist Theory Reader, the sixth edition of this now-classic collection includes new readings on caring labor, post-feminism, transnational solidarties and more to help readers negotiate contemporary debates within the field.This is an ideal text for anyone seeking to become an informed, critical, and reflexive thinker and activist for social justice."
Suzanne Bergeron, Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Emerita Professor of Women's Studies and Social Sciences at the University of Michigan Dearborn"Remarkably rich in its slecton and insightful in its execution, the sixth edition of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives is a significant resource for all feminist readers, including students, teachers, and activists. In attending to key recent debates and the dynamism and vibrancy of feminist scholarship, this anthology covers an impressive terrain from the intimate to the global and provides a terrific introduction to a wide range of frameworks and perspectives, including intersectional queer theories of perfomativity, postcolonial and decolonial theories of subjectivity, indigenous feminist studies, translation studies, and disability studies."
Richa Nagar, Inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Women and Gender Studies at Smith College and Professor Emeritus of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota"The sixth edition of Feminist Theory Reader is a valuable resource in the English language for those interested in the ever-growing and dynamic field of feminist studies. The editors have carefully crafted a collection of essays across a wide range of feminist epistemological traditions and interdisciplinary fields to offer readers a complex and nuanced introduction to feminist theory. By introducing new essays in this collection, the editors not only enhance the multiplicity of perspectives represented, but they also invite us to leave open the possibility of undoing fixed and canonical imaginations of "feminism" and "theory."
Sima Shakhsari, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
