Feminist Social Thought: A Reader

by Meyers,Diana Tietjens

• ISBN13: 9780415915366
• ISBN10: 0415915368
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Feminist Social Thoughtbrings together key articles by prominent feminist thinkers, offering students sophisticated treatment of the theoretical topics central to feminist social thought. This reader highlights salient concerns in contemporary feminist scholarship and the advances feminist philosophers have made. The editor's introduction outlines alternative routes through the text, allowing instructors to easily adapt this reader to their particular courses and the interests of their students. Each article is prefaced with a short introduction by the editor placing it in context, highlighting the principle issues and the conclusions reached. Students will find these headnotes helpful when tackling the challenging theoretical issues addressed. Representing a spectrum of feminist thinking,Feminist SocialThoughtis organized around seven topics constructions of gender; theorizing diversity; figurations of women; subjectivity, agency and feminist critique; social identity,solidarity and political engagement; care and its critics; and women, equality and justice. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of feminist philosophy and encouraged to think critically about challenging questions around pivotal subjects including * How are gender norms instilled, enforced, and perpetuated? * What are the relationships between gender and other socially demarcated positions such as race, class and sexual orientation? * What resources do women have at their disposal for recognizing their subordination and resisting it? * What goals should feminist politics pursue? * How can social and legal equality be reconciled with difference?

Table of Contents

Constructions of Gender

Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytical Perspective

Is Male Gender Identity the Cause of Male Domination?

On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality A Feminist Materialist Approach

Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State An Agenda for Theory

Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power

Excerpt from Gender Trouble

Theorizing Diversity -- Gender, Race, Class, And Sexual Orientation

Social Criticism Without Philosophy An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism

Playfulness, "World" - Traveling, and Loving Perception

Woman The One and the Many

Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions

Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory

Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness The Context of Black Feminist Ideology

Figurations of Women/Woman as Figuration

Beyond Racism and Misogyny Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew

Woman as Metaphor

Maleness, Metaphor, and the "Crisis" of Reason

Stabat Mater

And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other

Subjectivity, Agency, and Feminist Critique

Mirrors and Windows An Essay on Empty Signs, Pregnant Meanings, and Women's Power

Though This Be Method, Yet There is Madness in It

Feminism and Objective Interests The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation

Love and Knowledge Emotion in Feminist Epistemology

Some Reflections on Separatism and Power

Glancing at Pornography Recognizing Men

The Family Romance A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy

Social Identity, Solidarity, and Political Engagement

The Feminist Standpoint Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

Sisterhood Political Solidarity Between Women

A Manifesto for Cyborgs Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics

Care and Its Critics

In a Different Voice Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality

Maternal Thinking

Trust and Antitrust

Feminism and Moral Theory

Gender and Moral Luck

Beyond Caring The De-Moralization of Gender

Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices

Women, Equality, and Justice

The Equality Crisis Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism

Reconstructing Sexual Equality

The Generalized and the Concrete Other The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory

Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for

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