Feminist Theory Reader

* = new to this Second Edition


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" *







Sonia 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 Parrenas, 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 Anzaldua, "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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