Feminist Theory Reader

Carole R. McCann is Director and Associate 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 Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty of Department of Anthropology, Department of American Studies, and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland College Park. Her research expertise includes gender, labor, and development politics, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, and women in East Asia and Asian America. Her publications include: "Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea" (Cambridge University Press, 1997). The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is currently working on two book manuscripts: Women’s Movements in Democratic South Korea: The Trajectory of Institutionalization and the Loss of Autonomy which was funded by the Korea Foundation, and Global Citizens in the Making?: Transnational Migration and Education in Kirogi Families, which was funded by the Social Science Research Council.

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CONTENTS








Acknowledgements





Introduction








SECTION I: GROUNDINGS AND MOVEMENTS





Introduction





Groundings













Yosano Akiko, "The Day the Mountains Move" *







Inji Aflatun, "We Egyptian Women"







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







Elizabeth Martinez, "La Chicana"







Bonnie Kreps, "Radical Feminism 1"







bell hooks, "Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"







Christine Delphy, "Rethinking Sex and Gender"







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






Movements









Deniz Kandiyoti, "Bargaining with Patriarchy" *







Muriel Rukeyser, "The Poem as Mask" *







"No More Miss America!"







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







The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"







Wangari Maathai, "The History of the Green Belt Movement" *







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







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






SECTION II: THEORIZING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES





Introduction





Social Processes/Configuring Differences









June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas"







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" *







Mrinalina Sinha, "Gender and Nation" *







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







Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman"









Boundaries and Belongings









Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem"







Gloria Anzaldúa, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness"







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







Almas Sayeed, "Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz" *







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" *







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






SECTION III: THEORIZING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE, AGENCY, AND POLITICS





Introduction





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,"







Chrys Ingraham, "The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender" *







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"







Sharon Marcus, "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention" *






Imagine Otherwise: Solidarity Reconsidered









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







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







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?) *







Aihwa Ong, "Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under `Moderate Islam’" *







Malika Ndlovu, "Out of Now-here" *










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