Feminist Theory Reader

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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" * Sonia 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 Parrenas, 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 Anzaldua, "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