Theorizing feminisms : a reader /
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Imprint: | New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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Description: | xix, 564 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Feminist theory. Feminism. Feminism. Feminist theory. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5844207 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- "The Social Construction of Disability"
- "Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master's House"
- Epistemic Position
- "Stupidity 'Deconstructed'"
- "The Politics of Black Feminist Thought"
- "Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and 'Death by Culture'"
- "The Problem of Speaking for Others"
- Section II. General Approaches to Sex Oppression
- Introduction
- The Sameness Approach ("Humanist Feminism")
- Contributors
- Theoretical Frames
- The Subjection of Women (Chapter 1)
- "Ar'n't I a Woman?"
- The Second Sex (Introduction)
- "Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings"
- Contextual Studies
- "Social Change on Behalf of Battered Women: Reforming the Criminal Justice System"
- "More than 100 Million Women Are Missing"
- "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color"
- The Difference Approach ("Gynocentric Feminism")
- Introduction
- Theoretical Frames
- "Humanism, Gynocentrism, and Feminist Politics"
- "Women and Public Housekeeping"
- "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"
- "Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism"
- "Moral Orientation and Moral Development"
- Contextual Studies
- "Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections"
- "The Only Reason You Want to Go to Heaven Is That You Have Been Driven Out of Your Mind (Off Your Land and Out of Your Lover's Arms)"
- "Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics"
- Section I. Background Concepts
- "Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation"
- The Dominance Approach
- Theoretical Frames
- "Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination"
- "Desire and Power" and "Sex and Violence: A Perspective"
- "Woman Suffrage"
- "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power"
- "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"
- Contextual Studies
- "Confronting Pornography as a Civil-Rights Issue"
- Introduction
- "False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation"
- "Willful Virgin or Do You Have to Be a Lesbian to Be a Feminist?"
- "Seduced by Violence No More"
- Section III. Localizing Approaches to Sex Oppression
- Introduction
- Postmodern Feminism
- Theoretical Frames
- "Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism"
- from Gender Trouble
- "Postmodern Blackness"
- Oppression
- Contextual Studies
- "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention"
- "Send in the Clowns"
- "Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture"
- Feminist Identity Politics
- Theoretical Frames
- "The Race for Theory"
- "A Black Feminist Statement"
- "On Identity Politics"
- Contextual Studies
- "Five Faces of Oppression"
- "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness"
- "Mama's Got the Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends, and Advisors"
- "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy"
- Section IV. Feminist Allies?
- Introduction
- "Multiculturalism, Antiessentialism, and Radical Democracy: A Genealogy of the Current Impasse in Feminist Theory"
- Postcolonial Theory
- "Postcolonialism and Feminism"
- "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia"
- Neo-materialist Theory
- Social Construction
- "Socialist Feminism and the Limits of Dual Systems Theory"
- "Standing on Solid Ground: A Materialist Ecological Feminism"
- Queer Theory
- "Walking Our Talk"
- "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"
- "Against Proper Objects"
- "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality"
- "Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?"