"Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader introduces readers to key feminist theories and texts through a unique approach that combines both well-known classic feminist texts and original contemporary research by Feminist Studies scholars. This textbook has been crafted with the movement and translation of ideas in mind, and is broken into four sections: Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Ontologies, Feminist Approaches to Unlikely Objects, and Feminist Publics and World-Making. Each chapter includes two foundational texts that commonly appear in Feminist Studies classes as well as two new texts written by scholars who engage, critique, and extend those ideas in their work. In addition, the text includes discussion questions and additional materials useful for instruction. Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader is an ideal resource for students in introductory Feminist Studies courses, as well as those studying Women and Gender studies, sociology, and other social science"--
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader offers a unique approach to teaching and learning feminist thought.
Crafted with the movement and translation of ideas in mind, this book is broken into four sections: Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Ontologies, Feminist Orientations, and Resistance. Each chapter includes two well-known classic texts that commonly appear in Feminist Studies classes as well as two new texts written by scholars who engage, critique, and extend those ideas in their work. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website, which includes discussion questions, assignment ideas, lesson plans, and other materials useful for classroom instruction.
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader is designed for those new to feminism as well as more seasoned feminist thinkers. It is an ideal resource for students in introductory and advanced feminist theory courses, as well as those interested in social scientific and humanistic inquiry more broadly.
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader introduces readers to key feminist theories and texts through both well-known classic feminist texts and original contemporary research by Feminist Studies scholars. It is an ideal resource for students of Feminist Studies, as well as Gender studies, sociology, and other social science.
Introducing This Volume Section 1: Feminist Epistemologies and
Frameworks: Asking Questions in Feminist Ways Introduction Part I: Feminist
Historiography I.1 Telling Feminist Stories I.2 Transgender History I.3
Feminist Historiography: Constructing the Past in the Present and for the
Future I.4 Calling All Chicana Feminist Theorists, Trans Historians, and
Queer Femme Scholars: Abject Epistemologies in Feminist Theory Historiography
Part II: Power II.1 The History of Sexuality Volume I II.2 Can the Subaltern
Speak? II.3 People with Uteruses: Uterine Transplantation, In/fertility,
and Trans Pregnancy II.4 Feminists Disrupt Power: Rape and the Heterogeneity
of Subjugated Resistance PART III: Materiality III.1 Materialist Feminism and
the Politics of Discourse III.2 Animacies III.3 Materiality, Compulsory
Sexuality, and Sexual Desire III.4 Disruptive Diffusion: Materiality and the
Politics of AI-Generated Art PART IV: Affect IV.1 Cruel Optimism IV.2
Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology IV.3 A Body-Grounded View of
Chinas Neoliberal Transition IV.4 Out of Line PART V: State Institutions V.1
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty V.2 Terrorist Assemblages V.3 A State of
Contradictions V.4 Mak Nyahs and the Subject of Rights: Perversity, Piety,
and Citizenship in Postcolonial Malaysia PART VI: Political Economy VI.1
Wages Against Housework VI.2 Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor,
Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics VI.3 Whats Love Got to Do With
It? VI.4 When the Office Is Family: Queering Social Reproduction under
Startup Capitalism Section 2: Feminist Ontologies: On Feminist Ways of Being
Introduction PART VII: Experience VII.1 The Evidence of Experience VII.2
Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational
Reception VII.3 press, release, return: Edging Towards the Subject, or
Filipinx Feminist Form in Three Parts VII.4 Experience-as-Expertise: Cis
Women Athletes and Anti-Trans Sentiment PART VIII: Identity VIII.1 Gender
Trouble VIII.2 Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential
of Queer Politics VIII.3 Performative Disruption: The Lesbian Avengers Civil
Rights Organizing Project and the Threat of Rural Homophobia VIII.4 Identity
Politics and Queer Theorys Welfare Genealogies PART IX: Intersectionality
IX.1 Mapping the Margins IX.2 Rethinking Intersectionality IX.3 Sleeping
Babies, Technology, and the Construction of Risk IX.4 Reading at the Nexus of
Neglect and Fetishization: The Occult of Intersectionality PART X:
Reproductive Justice X.1 Reproductive Justice: An Introduction X.2 The Cancer
Journals X.3 Intersectional Feminism and the Health Humanities X.4 To Claim
My Own Body: Vaginismus as a Reproductive, Feminist, and Disability Justice
Issue Section 3: Feminist Orientations: New Directions in the Field
Introduction PART XI: Critical Geographies XI.1 Toward a Decolonial Feminism
XI.2 Global Divas XI.3 Traveling the Topographies of Mexico Citys Lesbian
Spaces XI.4 Mobility, Marginality, and Decoloniality in Feminist Theories of
Place PART XII: Film and Media XII.1 Witchs Flight XII.2 The Biopower of
Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminism in an Age of Terror
XII.3 Beautiful Activists: A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Race in Essence
Magazine, 1970 XII.4 Boss: Beyoncés Rhetorical Performance of Black
Womanhood PART XIII: Feminist Science and Technology Studies XIII.1 Cyborg
Manifesto XIII.2 Egg and Sperm: A Scientific Fairytale XIII.3 Feminist and
Queer STS XIII.4 More than Cyborgs: Metaphors for Thinking, Surviving, and
Gathering PART XIV: More-Than-Human Attunements XIV.1 Mohawk Mothers Milk
XIV.2 Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals XIV.3 Transing
Difference XIV.4 A Feminist Study of Breathing Section 4: Feminist
Resistance: Mapping Multiple Futures Introduction PART XV:
Institutionalization XV.1 The Reorder of Things: The University and Its
Pedagogies of Minority Difference XV.2 In the Shadow of the Shadow State XV.3
Holly Near on Tour with the National Womens Studies Association XV.4 In the
University, But Not of It: The Diversity Industry vs. Queer Epistemologies
PART XVI: Meaning-Making XVI.1 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza XVI.2
Against the Romance of Community XVI.3 Lesbian Feminism and the Challenge of
Community XVI.4 Self-Craft and Coalition: Toward a New Class Consciousness
PART XVII: Revolution XVII.1 Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices
for the Twenty-First Century XVII.2 Statement on Gender Violence and the
Prison-Industrial Complex XVII.3 Mutuality in Mutual Aid: Radical Care, Mask
Making, and the Auntie Sewing Squad XVII.4 From Demands to Action: Using
Transformative Justice to address Sexual Violence PART XVIII: Speculative
Futures XVIII.1 On Racism XVIII.2 Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black Is the New
BlackA 21st Century Manifesto XVIII.3 The Future-Past Is Disabled XVIII.4
Speculations Beyond Real Estate
Hemangini Gupta is Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India.Her work is published in Feminist Review, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Feminist Studies journals amongst others. Gupta completed her Ph.D. in Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.
Kelly Sharron is Assistant Teaching Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Sharrons work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. Sharron completed her Ph.D. in Gender & Womens Studies at the University of Arizona.
Carly Thomsen is Associate Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She is the author of Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming. Her work appears in various academic journals and media outlets, including Signs, Political Geography, New York Times, Ms., and others. Her Feminist Studies Ph.D. is from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Abraham Weil is a scholar of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on radical political formations, anti-black racism, trans theorizing, and philosophy. Weil completed their Ph.D. in Gender & Womens Studies at the University of Arizona. Their work appears in Social Text, Critical Inquiry, The Black Scholar, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities.
