Feminist Social Thought: A Reader

by Meyers,Diana Tietjens

• ISBN13: 9780415915373
• ISBN10: 0415915376
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-10-23
• 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

Acknowledgments	xi
Feminist Social Thought: A Reader Editor's Introduction	1	(6)
PART 1: CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER	7	(124)
1. Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective	7	(14)
Nancy Julia Chodorow
2. Is Male Gender Identity the Cause of Male Domination?	21	(17)
Iris Marion Young
3. On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality: A Feminist Materialist Approach	38	(26)
Ann Ferguson
4. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory	64	(28)
Catharine MacKinnon
5. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power	92	(20)
Sandra Lee Bartky
6. Excerpt from Gender Trouble	112	(19)
Judith Butler
PART 2: THEORIZING DIVERSITY--GENDER, RACE, CLASS, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION	131	(114)
7. Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism	131	(16)
Nancy Fraser
Linda J. Nicholson
8. Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception	147	(13)
Maria Lugones
9. Woman: The One and the Many	160	(20)
Elizabeth V. Spelman
10. Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions	180	(19)
Elizabeth Abel
11. Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory	199	(20)
Cheshire Calhoun
12. Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology	219	(26)
Deborah K. King
PART 3: FIGURATIONS OF WOMEN WOMAN AS FIGURATION	245	(86)
13. Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew	245	(19)
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
14. Woman as Metaphor	264	(22)
Eva Feder Kittay
15. Maleness, Metaphor, and the "Crisis" of Reason	286	(16)
Genevieve Lloyd
16. Stabat Mater	302	(18)
Julia Kristeva
17. And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other	320	(11)
Luce Irigaray
PART 4: SUBJECTIVITY, AGENCY, AND FEMINIST CRITIQUE	331	(130)
18. Mirrors and Windows: An Essay on Empty Signs, Pregnant Meanings, and Women's Power	331	(10)
Patricia J. Williams
19. Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology	341	(27)
Naomi Scheman
20. Feminism and Objective Interests: The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation	368	(16)
Susan E. Babbitt
21. Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology	384	(22)
Alison M. Jaggar
22. Some Reflections on Separatism and Power	406	(9)
Marilyn Frye
23. Glancing at Pornography: Recognizing Men	415	(25)
Patricia S. Mann
24. The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy	440	(21)
Diana Tietjens Meyers
PART 5: SOCIAL IDENTITY, SOLIDARITY, AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT	461	(86)
25. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism	461	(23)
Nancy C. M. Hartsock
26. Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women	484	(17)
bell hooks
27. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s	501	(31)
Donna Haraway
28. Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics	532	(15)
Chantal Mouffe
PART 6: CARE AND ITS CRITICS	547	(148)
29. In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and Morality	547	(36)
Carol Gilligan
30. Maternal Thinking	583	(21)
Sara Ruddick
31. Trust and Antitrust	604	(26)
Annette Baier
32. Feminism and Moral Theory	630	(16)
Virginia Held
33. Gender and Moral Luck	646	(18)
Claudia Card
34. Beyond Caring: The De-Moralization of Gender	664	(16)
Marilyn Friedman
35. Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices	680	(15)
Michele M. Moody-Adams
PART 7: WOMEN, EQUALITY, AND JUSTICE	695	(76)
36. The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism	695	(19)
Wendy W. Williams
37. Reconstructing Sexual Equality	714	(21)
Christine A. Littleton
38. The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory	735	(22)
Seyla Benhabib
39. Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism	757	(14)
Joan W. Scott
Permissions Acknowledgments	771