Feminist theory reader : local and global perspectives / [edited by] Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim.

Other author McCann, Carole R. (Carole Ruth), 1955-
Other author Kim, Seung-Kyung, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2003.
Descriptionx, 509 pages ; 26 cm
Subjects
Feminist theory.

Contents Reproductive and sexual rights : a feminist perspective / Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky -- African feminism : toward a new politics of representation / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Ecofeminist appropriations and transnational environmentalisms / Noël Sturgeon -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes -- Wartime sexual violence against women : a feminist response / Margaret D. Stetz. Theorizing intersecting identities. Race and nation. A black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective -- The bridge poem / Donna Kate Rushin -- Invisibility is an unnatural disaster : reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada -- La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- The preferential symbol for Islamic identity : women in Muslim personal laws / Marie-Aimée Hélie-Lucas -- Some reflections on U.S. women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China / Mallika Dutt.
Contents Class. The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism : towards a more progressive union / Heidi Hartmann -- Capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy : the dilemma of third-world women workers in multinational factories / Linda Y.C. Lim -- Mobilization without emancipation? women's interests, the state, and revolution in Nicaragua / Maxine Molyneux. Sexuality. The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt -- One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig -- I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Funny boys and girls : notes on a queer South Asian planet / Gayatri Gopinath -- Going home : enacting justice in queer Asian America / Karin Aguilar-San Juan. Theorizing feminist agency and politics. Standpoints. The feminist standpoint : toward a specifically feminist historical materialism / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- The project of feminist epistemology : perspectives from a nonwestern feminist / Uma Narayan -- The politics of black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Separating lesbian theory from feminist theory / Cheshire Calhoun -- Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism / Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill. Poststructuralist theories. Multiple mediations : feminist scholarship in the age of multinational reception / Lata Mani -- Deconstructing equality-versus-difference : or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott --
Contents Situated knowledges : the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective / Donna Haraway -- The theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcón -- Performative acts and gender constitution : an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler -- A tale of two feminisms : power and victimization in contemporary feminist debate / Carolyn Sorisio. Locations and coalitions. Report from the Bahamas / June Jordan -- Notes toward a politics of location / Adrienne Rich -- Feminist encounters : locating the politics of experience / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Beyond bean counting / JeeYeun Lee.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index.
LCCN 2002005200
ISBN0415931525
ISBN0415931533

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1190 .F46346 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold