Gender Struggles Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism

by Mui, Constance L.; Addelson, Kathryn Pyne; Bartky, Sandra Lee; Bordo, Susan; Braidotti, Rosi; Brison, Susan J.; Butler, Judith; Cornell, Drucilla L.; Davis, Deirdre E.; Fraser, Nancy; Hammonds, Evelynn M.; Hirschmann, Nancy J.; Kittay, Eva Feder; Marcus,

• ISBN13: 9780742512542
• ISBN10: 0742512541
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The sixteen essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such as adoption, care work, and the home.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary	p. 22
Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom	p. 47
After the Family Wage: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment	p. 69
"Not My Way, Sesha, Your Way, Slowly": "Maternal Thinking" in the Raising of a Child with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	p. 95
The Emergence of the Fetus	p. 118
Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity	p. 137
Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention	p. 166
Sovereign Performatives	p. 186
The Harm that Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women	p. 214
The Sexual Harasser Is a Bully, Not a Sex Fiend	p. 226
Suffering to Be Beautiful	p. 241
Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality	p. 257
Time, Space, and Motherhoods	p. 276
Rethinking Consciousness Raising: Citizenship and the Law and Politics of Adoption	p. 295
House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme	p. 314
Cyberfeminism with a Difference	p. 347
Acknowledgments	p. 358
Index	p. 360
About the Contributors	p. 366
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