Feminist Theory Reader

Carole R. McCann is Director and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty member of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research expertise includes, feminist science studies, twentieth century history of birth control, eugenics, and population, and feminist theory. Her publications include Birth control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (Cornell University Press, 1994, 1999). She is currently working on a book manuscript about masculinities in mid-century population sciences. Seung-kyung Kim is Director and Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. Her research expertise includes gender and labor politics, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, and Women in East Asia and Asian America. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, her publications include Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2009); South Korean Feminists Bargain: Progressive Presidencies and the Women’s Movement, 1998-2007 (forthcoming, Routledge). She is currently working on a book manuscript, Global Citizens in the Making?: Transnational Migration and Education in Kirogi Families.

FEMINIST THEORY READER: LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES – THIRD EDITION: TABLE OF CONTENTS


Preface to the Third Edition





Acknowledgements





　


Introduction: Feminist Theory, Local and Global Perspectives








SECTION I





Introduction: Theorizing Feminist Times and Spaces





　


Feminist Movements













Yosano Akiko, "The Day the Mountains Move"







Nancy Hewitt, "Re-Rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848"










Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, " Introduction,"










Linda Nicholson, "Feminism in `Waves’: Useful Metaphor or Not?"







Becky Thompson, "Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism,"










Amrita Basu, "Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women’s Movements"










Michelle Rowley, "The Idea of Ancestry: Of Feminist Genealogies and Many Other Things"









Local Identities and Politics









Muriel Rukeyser, "The Poem as Mask"







T. V. Reed, "The Poetical is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women’s Rights"










Deniz Kandiyoti, "Bargaining with Patriarchy"










Carole Pateman, "Introduction: The Theoretical Subversiveness of Feminism"







Elizabeth Martinez, "La Chicana"







The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"







Shulamith Firestone, "The Culture of Romance"







Charlotte Bunch, "Lesbians in Revolt"







Sônia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky, "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective"










Leslie Feinberg, "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come"






　


SECTION II





Introduction: Theorizing Intersecting Identities





　


Social Processes/Configuring Differences









Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana, "Critical Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens"










Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union"










Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work










Lila Abu-Lughod, "Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies"







Mrinalini Sinha, "Gender and Nation"







Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman"







R.W. Connell, "The Social Organization of Masculinity"






Boundaries and Belongings









Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem"







June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas"







Gloria Anzaldúa, "The New Mestiza Nation: A Multicultural Movement"







Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart"







Audre Lorde, "I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities"







Lionel Cantu with Eithne Luibheid and Alexandra Minna Stern, "Well Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"










Leila Ahmed, "The Veil Debate Again"










Obioma Nnaemeka, "Forward: Locating Feminisms/Feminists"







Andrea Smith, "Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change"










Marie Matsuda, "Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition"






　


SECTION III





Introduction: Theorizing Feminist Knowledge and Agency





　


Standpoint Epistemologies/Situational Knowledges









Nancy C.M. Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism"










Uma Narayan, "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist"










Patricia Hill Collins, "Defining Black Feminist Thought,"







Cheshire Calhoun, "Separating Lesbian Theory From Feminist Theory"










Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"






Poststructuralist Epistemologies









Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which is Not One"







Lata Mani, "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception"










Sandra Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power"










Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory"






　


SECTION IV





Introduction: Imagine Otherwise





Bodies and Emotions









Alison Jaggar, "Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology"










Kathy Davis, "Reclaiming Women’s Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology?"










Sara Ahmed, "Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness"










Lucille Clifton, "Lumpectomy Eve"






Solidarity Reconsidered









Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "`Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles"










Suzanna Danuta Walters, "From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Lesbian Menace (Or, Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Fag?)










Paula M. L. Moya, "Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory,"







Malika Ndlovu, "Out of Now-here"







Works Cited





Credits





Index