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 Local and Global Perspectives SECTION Theorizing Times and Spaces * Yosano Akiko, 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, in 'Waves': Useful Metaphor or Not? * Becky Thompson, Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave * Amrita Basu, Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements * Michelle Rowley, Idea of Ancestry: Of Genealogies and Many Other Things Local Identities and Politics * Muriel Rukeyser, as Mask * T. V. Reed, Poetical is the Political: Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Rights * Deniz Kandiyoti, Bargaining with Patriarchy * Carole Pateman, Introduction: The Theoretical Subversiveness of * Elizabeth Martinez, La * The Combahee River Collective, Black Statement * Shulamith Firestone, Culture of Romance * Charlotte Bunch, Lesbians in Revolt * Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky, Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Perspective * Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Liberation: A Whose Time Has Come SECTION II Theorizing Intersecting Identities Social Processes/Configuring Differences * Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana, Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens * Heidi Hartmann, 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 Studies * Mrinalini Sinha, and Nation * Monique Wittig, Is Not Born a * R.W. Connell, Social Organization of Masculinity Boundaries and Belongings * Donna Kate Rushin, Bridge Poem * June Jordan, Report from the Bahamas * Gloria Anzaldua, 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, 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 of Coalition SECTION III Theorizing Knowledge and Agency Standpoint Epistemologies/Situational Knowledges * Nancy C.M. Hartsock, Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Historical Materialism * Uma Narayan, Project of Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist * Patricia Hill Collins, Defining Black Thought, * Cheshire Calhoun, Separating Lesbian 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: 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 Theory SECTION IV Imagine Otherwise Bodies and Emotions * Alison Jaggar, Love and Knowledge: Emotion in 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: 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