Theorizing Feminism

Part 1 Reading feminist theory - collaborating across disciplines, Anne C. Hermann and Abigail Stewart. Part 2 Inventing gender - defining feminism and feminist theory: what is feminism?, Rosalind Delman; the Combahee River Collective statement; from a long line of Vendidas - Chicanas and feminism, Cherrie Moraga. Part 3 Inventing gender - the mutual influence of the humanities and social sciences: gender and the meaning of difference - postmodernism and psychology, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin and Jeanne Marecek; fragments of a fashionable discourse, Kaja Silverman. Part 4 Gender, race and class - discovering masculine bias: why have there been no great women artists?, Linda Nochlin; bias in psychology, Carolyn Wood Sherif. Part 5 Gender, race and class - race and gender: relating to privilege - seduction and rejection in the subordination of white women and women of colour, Aida Hurtado; split affinities - the case of inter-racial rape, Valerie Smith. Part 6 Gender, race and class - materialism, class and feminism: the family as the locus of gender, class and political struggle - the example of housework, Heidi I. Hartmann; on being the object of property, Patricia J. Williams. Part 7 Sex, gender and sexuality - from sex to gender: the medical construction of gender - case management of intersexed infants, Suzanne J. Kessler; spare parts - the surgical construction of gender, Marjorie Garber. Part 8 Sex, gender and sexuality - difference and dominance: sexuality, Catherine A. MacKinnon; the politics of writing (the) body - ecriture feminine, Arleen B. Dallery. Part 9 Sex, gender and sexuality - different sexualities: sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes - the case of cross-gender females, Evelyn Blackwood; lesbian identity and autobiographical difference(s), Biddy Martin. Part 10 Questioning gender - social construction: thinking from the perspective of lesbian lives, Sandra Harding; deconstructing equality-versus-difference - or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism, Joan W. Scott. Part 11 Questioning gender - postcolonialism: colonlialism and modernity - feminist re-presentations of women in non-Western societies, Aihwa Ong; woman is an island - femininity and colonization, Judith Williamson. Part 12 Questioning gender - feminisms/postmodernism: foetal images - the power of visual culture in the politics of reproduction, Rosalind Pollack Petcheskey; a cyborg manifesto - science, technology and socialist-feminism in the late-20th century, Donna Haraway; feminism, postmodernism and gender scepticism, Susan Bordo.