Feminist Theory Reader : Local and Global Perspectives

by Mccann; Carole

• ISBN13: 9780415994781
• ISBN10: 0415994780
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-20
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Feminist Theory Reader,second edition, continues its unique approach of anthologizing the important works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone De Beauvoir, Gloria Anzaldua, Judith Butler, belle hooks, Nancy Hartsock, Deniz Kandiyoti,and Chandra Talpade Mohanty appear alongside cutting-edge scholarship by Paula Moya, Aiwha Ong, Raewyn Connell, Suzanne Walters, Mrinalina Sinha, and Rhacel Parreñas. The new edition significantly updates both the local and global perspectives that distinguished the first edition, incorporating themes and debates on the rise in the contemporary feminist scholarship.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Groundings and Movements
Introduction	p. 13
Groundings
"The Day the Mountains Move"	p. 28
"We Egyptian Women"	p. 29
The Second Sex, "Introduction"	p. 34
"La Chicana"	p. 43
"Radical Feminism 1"	p. 46
"Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"	p. 51
"Rethinking Sex and Gender"	p. 58
"Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements"	p. 69
Movements
"Bargaining with Patriarchy"	p. 80
"The Poem as Mask"	p. 89
"No More Miss America!"	p. 90
"The Poetical is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Rights"	p. 92
The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"	p. 106
"The History of the Green Belt Movement"	p. 113
"Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective"	p. 119
"Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come"	p. 133
Theorizing Intersecting Identities
Introduction	p. 147
Social Processes/Configuring Differences
"Report from the Bahamas"	p. 160
"The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union"	p. 169
Servants of Globalization: "Women, Migration, and Domestic Work"	p. 184
"Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies"	p. 203
"Gender and Nation"	p. 212
"The Social Organization of Masculinity"	p. 232
"One Is Not Born a Woman"	p. 244
Boundaries and Belongings
"The Bridge Poem"	p. 252
"La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness"	p. 254
"Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart"	p. 263
"Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz"	p. 270
"I am your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities"	p. 276
"Well Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"	p. 281
"Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition"	p. 291
Theorizing Feminist Knowledge, Agency, and Politics
Introduction	p. 303
Standpoint Epistemologies/Situational Knowledges
"The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism"	p. 316
"The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist"	p. 332
"Defining Black Feminist Thought"	p. 341
"The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender"	p. 357
"Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"	p. 370
Poststructural Epistemologies
"This Sex Which is Not One"	p. 384
"Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception"	p. 390
"Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power"	p. 404
"Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory"	p. 419
"Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention"	p. 431
Imagine Otherwise: Solidarity Reconsidered
"Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles"	p. 446
"Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory"	p. 463
"From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Lesbian Menace (Or, Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Fag?)	p. 482
"Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under 'Moderate Islam'"	p. 503
"Out of Now-here"	p. 521
Works Cited	p. 523
Permissions	p. 545
Index	p. 549
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