Feminist Theory : A Reader

by Kolmar, Wendy K.; Bartkowski, Frances

• ISBN13: 9781559349253
• ISBN10: 1559349255
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-28
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This comprehensive reader represents the history, intellectual breadth and diversity of feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading Feminist Theory

What is Feminist Theory? What is Feminism?

Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler, “Feminism” “Feminist” The Feminist Dictionary (1985)

Alice Walker, “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers Gardens (1983)

Charlotte Bunch, “Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education” (1979)

Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1977) rptd in Sister/Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

bell hooks, “Theory as Liberatory Practice” from Teaching to Transgress (1994)

Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘The Woman’s Voice’” (1983)

Lexicon of the Debates:

Feminisms

Bodies

Sexualities

Epistemologies

Essentialism/Social Construction

Language

Power

Psychoanalysis and/in Feminism

Intersections of Race, Class and Gender

Sexual Division of Labor

Subjectivities

“Third World”/Global Feminisms

1792 through 1920—Introduction

“The Changing Woman” (Navajo Origin Myth)

Mary Wollstonecraft, “Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society.” from Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)

Sarah Grimké, from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (1838)

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments from The History of Women’s Suffrage (1848)

Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851) “Keep the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring” (1867)

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Chapters 2 & 4 from Subjection of Women (1870)

Josephine Butler, “Letter to my Countrywomen Dwelling in Farmsteads and Cottages of England” (1871)

Francis Power Cobbe, “Wife Torture in England” (1878)

Frederick Engels, from Origin of the Family, Private

Property and the State (1884)

Anna Julia Cooper, “The Status of Women in America” from A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South (1892)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from “Introduction” and “Genesis” The Women’s Bible (1895)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chapter VII from Women and Economics (1898)

Mary Church Terrell, “The Progress of Colored Women” (1898)

Olive Schreiner, from Women and Labor (1911)

Emma Goldman, from The Traffic in Women (1910)

Mother (Mary) Jones, “Girl Slaves of the Milwaukee Breweries” (1910)

Crystal Eastman, “Now We Begin” from On Women and Revolution (1919)

1920 through 1963—Introduction

Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control-A Parent’s Problem or Woman’s?” from Women and the New Race (1920)

Stella Browne, “Studies in Female Inversion” (1923)

Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own (1929)

Karen Horney, “The Dread of Women” (1932)

Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament” from Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)

Mary Beard, from “The Haunting Idead: Its Nature and Origin” from Woman as a Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946)

Florynce Kennedy, “A Comparative Study: Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Positions of Women and Negroes” (1946) from Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times (1976)

Simone de Beauvoir, “Introduction” from The Second Sex (1949)

Jeannette Foster, “Conclusion” from Sex Variant Women in Literature (1956)

1963 through 1975—Introduction

Betty Friedan, from The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Mary Douglas, “Powers and Dangers” from Purity and Danger (1966)

NOW Statement (1966)

Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

Kate Millet, from Sexual Politics (1969)

Mary Ann Weathers, “An Argument for Black Women’s Liberation as a Revolutionary Force” (1969)

Redstockings Manifesto (1969)

Eva Figes, “Learning to Be a Woman” from Patriarchal Attitudes (1970)

Shulamith Firestone, “The Dialectic of Sex” from The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

Pauli Murray, “The Liberation of Black Women” in Voice of the New Feminism (1970)

“Why Owl (Older Women’s League)?” (1970)

Carolyn Heilbron, from “The Hidden River of Androgyny” Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1973)

Ti-Grace Atkinson, “Older Women a Stockpile of Losses” from Amazon Odyssey (1974)

Sherry Ortner, “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture” (1974)

Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of Medusa” (1975)

Casey Miller and Kate Swift, “Semantic Polarizations” from Women and Words (1975)

Fatima Mernissi, from “Conclusion: Women’s Liberation in Muslim Countries” from Beyond the Veil: Male- Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (1975)

Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women” (1975)

1975 through 1985—Introduction

Carol Smith-Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual” (1975)

Susan Brownmiller, “Women Fight Back” in Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975)

Christine Delphy, from Close to Home (1975)

Elaine Pagels, “What Became of God the Mother?

Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity” (1976)

Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977)

Luce Irigaray, from “This Sex Which is Not One” from This Sex Which Is Not One (1977)

Marilyn Frye, “Some Reflections on Separatism and Power” (1978) rptd. in Politics of Reality

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Sex and Class: Women Redefining Difference” (1978) rptd. in Sister/Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Nancy Chorodow, “The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life” from The Reproduction of Mothering (1978)

Monique Wittig, “The Straight Mind” (1978) from The Straight Mind and Other Essays

Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980)

Sara Ruddick, “Maternal Thinking” (1985)

Ynestra King, “Feminism and the Revolt Against Nature” from Heresies no. 13 (1981)

Mitsuye Yamada, “Asian Pacific Women and Feminism” (1981)

Heidi Hartmann, “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union” (1981)

Carol Gilligan, “Concepts of Self and Morality” from In a Different Voice (1982)

E. Ann Kaplan, “Is the Gaze Male?” (1982)

Deirdre English, “The Fear that Feminism Will Free Men First” from Power of Desire (1983)

Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” (1984/1991)

Adrienne Rich, “Politics of Location” from Blood, Bread and Poetry (1984)

1985 through 1995

Paula Gunn Allen, “Kochinnenko in the Academy” (1986)

Rosalind Delmar, “What is Feminism” (1986)

Judith Plaskow, “Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective” from Tikkun 1:2 (1986)

Gloria Anzaldua, “La Consciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness” (1987)

Michelle Stanworth, “Birth Pangs: Conceptive Technologies and the Threat to Motherhood” from Conflicts in Feminism (1990)

Sandra Harding, “The Woman Question in Science to the Science Question in Feminism” from The Science Question in Feminism (1986)

Linda Alcoff, “Cultural Feminism and Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory” (1988)

Joan Scott, “Deconstructing Equality -vs.-Difference, or the Uses of Post-structuralist Theory for Feminism” (1988)

Diana Fuss, “The Risk of Essence” from Essentially Speaking (1989)

Donna Haraway, “Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post Humanist Landscape” (1989)

bell hooks, “Feminism: a Transformational Politic” from Talking Back: Thinking Black, Thinking Feminist (1989)

Catherine Mackinnon “Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: ‘Pleasure under Patriarchy’” from Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)

Elizabeth Minnich from Transforming Knowledge (1989)

Judith Butler, from “Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions” from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)

Pat Hill Collins, from Black Feminist Thought (1990)

Angela Davis, “Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties” (1991)

Evelyn Fox Keller, “Making Gender Visible in Pursuit of Nature’s Secrets” (1993)

Emma Perez “Speaking from the Margin: Uninvited Discourse on Sexuality and Power” from Building with Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies (1993)

Jeanne Delombard, “Feminism” from to be real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism (1995)

Patricia Williams, “The Unbearable Autonomy of Being” from The Rooster’s Egg (1995)

Beijing Platform for Action, “Missions Statement,” “Beijing Declaration” (1995)