Second Signs Reader
Feminist Scholarship 1983-1996
University of Chicago Press
73rd Edition
Published on 1. August 1996
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-0-226-40060-0 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of work on American feminist scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the first "Signs Reader" in 1983. The volume has an interdisciplinary focus for the presentation and discussion of wide and complex issues of gender. The text also focuses on many recent areas of debate in feminist research, such as the intersection of feminism with cultural studies. Contributors include Nancy J. Chodorow, Lisa Disch, Ann duCille, Trisha Franzen, and Susan Stanford Friedman.
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Edition
73rd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-226-40060-0 (9780226400600)
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Content
Introduction Barbara Laslett, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres. African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies Ann duCille Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse Susan Stanford Friedman Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective Iris Marion Young Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory Gayle Greene Gender as a Personal and Cultural Construction Nancy J. Chodorow The Construction of Subjectivity and the Paradox of Resistance: Reintegrating Feminist Anthropology and Psychology Maureen A. Mahoney, Barbara Yngvesson. Purity, Impurity, and Separation Maria Lugones Differences and Identities: Feminism and the Albuquerque Lesbian Community Trisha Franzen Getting It Right Marilyn Frye When a Looker Becomes a Bitch: Lisa Olson, Sport, and the Heterosexual Matrix Lisa Disch, Mary Jo Kane. "The Teachers, They All Had Their Pets": Concepts of Gender, Knowledge, and Power Wendy Luttrell About the Contributors Index