Feminist Theory Reader

by McCann, Carole R.

• ISBN13: 9780415931533
• ISBN10: 0415931533
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Feminist Theory Readeris an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(11)
SECTION I DEFINITIONS AND MOVEMENTS
Introduction	12	(14)
Definitions
``We Egyptian Women''	26	(6)
Inji Aflatun
The Second Sex, ``Introduction''	32	(9)
Simone de Beauvoir
``La Chicana''	41	(4)
Elizabeth Martinez
``Radical Feminism 1''	45	(5)
Bonnie Kreps
``Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression''	50	(7)
bell books
``Rethinking Sex and Gender''	57	(11)
Christine Delphy
``Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements''	68	(12)
Amrita Basu
Movements
``No More Miss America!''	80	(3)
``Lesbians in Revolt''	83	(5)
Charlotte Bunch
``Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective''	88	(15)
Sonia Correa
Rosalind Petchesky
``African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation''	103	(10)
Gwendolyn Mikell
``Ecofeminist Appropriations and Transnational Environmentalisms''	113	(13)
Noel Sturgeon
``Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil''	126	(12)
Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
``Wartime Sexual Violence against Women: A Feminist Response''	138	(26)
Margaret D. Stetz
SECTION II THEORIZING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES
Introduction	148	(16)
Race and Nation
The Combahee River Collective ``A Black Feminist Statement''	164	(8)
``The Bridge Poem''	172	(2)
Donna Kate Rushin
``Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman''	174	(5)
Mitsuye Yamada
``La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness''	179	(9)
Gloria Anzaldua
``The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws''	188	(9)
Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas
``Some Reflections on U.S. Women of Color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China''	197	(9)
Mallika Dutt
Class
``The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union''	206	(16)
Heidi Hartmann
``Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third-World Women Workers in Multinational Factories''	222	(9)
Linda Y. C. Lim
``Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua''	231	(11)
Maxine Molyneux
Sexuality
``The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm''	242	(7)
Anne Koedt
``One Is Not Born a Woman''	249	(6)
Monique Wittig
``I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities''	255	(5)
Audre Lorde
``Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet''	260	(7)
Gayatri Gopinath
``Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America''	267	(25)
Karin Aguilar-San Juan
SECTION III THEORIZING FEMINIST AGENCY AND POLITICS
Introduction	278	(14)
Standpoints
``The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism''	292	(16)
Nancy C. M. Hartsock
``The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist''	308	(10)
Uma Narayan
``The Politics of Black Feminist Thought''	318	(16)
Patricia Hill Collins
``Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory''	334	(19)
Cheshire Calhoun
``Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism''	353	(11)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Poststructuralist Theories
``Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception''	364	(14)
Lata Mani
``Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism''	378	(13)
Joan W. Scott
``Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective''	391	(13)
Donna Haraway
``The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism''	404	(11)
Norma Alarcon
``Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory''	415	(13)
Judith Butler
``A Tale of Two Feminisms: Power and Victimization in Contemporary Feminist Debate''	428	(10)
Carolyn Sorisio
Locations and Coalitions
``Report from the Bahamas''	438	(9)
June Jordan
``Notes Toward a Politics of Location''	447	(13)
Adrienne Rich
``Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience''	460	(12)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
``Beyond Bean Counting''	472	(5)
JeeYeun Lee
Works Cited	477	(16)
Permissions	493