Feminist theory reader : local and global perspectives /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:x, 509 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4805341
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Other authors / contributors:McCann, Carole R. (Carole Ruth), 1955-
Kim, Seung-Kyung, 1954-
ISBN:0415931525
0415931533
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-491) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section I. Definitions and Movements
  • Introduction
  • Definitions
  • 1.. Inji Aflatun, "We Egyptian Women"
  • 2.. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, "Introduction"
  • 3.. Elizabeth Martinez, "La Chicana"
  • 4.. Bonnie Kreps, "Radical Feminism 1"
  • 5.. Bell hooks, "Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"
  • 6.. Christine Delphy, "Rethinking Sex and Gender"
  • 7.. Amrita Basu, "Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements"
  • Movements
  • 8.. "No More Miss America!"
  • 9.. Charlotte Bunch, "Lesbians in Revolt"
  • 10.. Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky, "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective"
  • 11.. Gwendolyn Mikell, "African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation"
  • 12.. Noel Sturgeon, "Ecofeminist Appropriations and Transnational Environmentalisms"
  • 13.. Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes, "Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil"
  • 14.. Margaret D. Stetz, "Wartime Sexual Violence against Women: A Feminist Response"
  • Section II. Theorizing Intersecting Identities
  • Introduction
  • Race and Nation
  • 15.. The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"
  • 16.. Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem"
  • 17.. Mitsuye Yamada, "Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman"
  • 18.. Gloria Anzaldua, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness"
  • 19.. Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas, "The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws"
  • 20.. Mallika Dutt, "Some Reflections on U.S. Women of Color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China"
  • Class
  • 21.. Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union"
  • 22.. Linda Y. C. Lim, "Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third-World Women Workers in Multinational Factories"
  • 23.. Maxine Molyneux, "Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua"
  • Sexuality
  • 24.. Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm"
  • 25.. Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman"
  • 26.. Audre Lorde, "I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities"
  • 27.. Gayatri Gopinath, "Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet"
  • 28.. Karin Aguilar-San Juan, "Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America"
  • Section III. Theorizing Feminist Agency and Politics
  • Introduction
  • Standpoints
  • 29.. Nancy C. M. Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism"
  • 30.. Uma Narayan, "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist"
  • 31.. Patricia Hill Collins, "The Politics of Black Feminist Thought"
  • 32.. Cheshire Calhoun, "Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory"
  • 33.. Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill, "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism"
  • Poststructuralist Theories
  • 34.. Lata Mani, "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception"
  • 35.. Joan W. Scott, "Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism"
  • 36.. Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"
  • 37.. Norma Alarcon, "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism"
  • 38.. Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory"
  • 39.. Carolyn Sorisio, "A Tale of Two Feminisms: Power and Victimization in Contemporary Feminist Debate"
  • Locations and Coalitions
  • 40.. June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas"
  • 41.. Adrienne Rich, "Notes Toward a Politics of Location"
  • 42.. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience"
  • 43.. JeeYeun Lee, "Beyond Bean Counting"
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