The fifth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader assembles readings that present key aspects of the conversations within intersectional US and transnational feminisms and continues to challenge readers to rethink the ways in which gender and its multiple intersections are configured by complex, overlapping, and asymmetrical global–local configurations of power.
The feminist theoretical debates in this anthology are anchored by five foundational concepts—gender, difference, women’s experiences, the personal is political, and especially intersectionality—which are integral to contemporary feminist critiques. The anthology continues to center the voices of transnational feminist scholars with new essays giving it a sharper focus on the materiality of gender injustices, racisms, ableisms, colonialisms, and especially global capitalisms. Theoretical discussions of translation politics, cross-border solidarity building, ecofeminism, reproductive justice, #MeToo, indigenous feminisms, and disability studies have been incorporated throughout the volume.
With the new essays and the addition of a new editor, the Feminist Theory Reader has been brought fully up-to-date and will continue to be a touchstone for women’s and gender studies students, as well as academics in the field, for many years to come.
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Remarkably rich in its selection and insightful in its execution, the fifth edition of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, edited by Carole McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim, and Emek Ergun is a significant resource for all feminist readers, including students, teachers, and activists. In attending to key recent debates and the dynamism and vibrancy of feminist scholarship, this anthology covers an impressive terrain from the intimate to the global and provides a terrific introduction to a wide range of frameworks and perspectives, including intersectional queer theories of performativity, postcolonial and decolonial theories of subjectivity, indigenous feminist studies, translation studies, and disability studies.
Richa Nagar, Professor of the College, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Building on the rich cross-border engagements that characterized previous editions of the Feminist Theory Reader, the fifth edition of this now-classic collection includes new works on decolonial feminism, indigenous feminism, feminisms in translation, spiritual activism and more to help readers negotiate contemporary debates within the field. This is an ideal text for anyone seeking to become an informed, critical, and reflexive thinker and activist for social justice.
Suzanne Bergeron, Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Professor of Womens Studies and Social Sciences at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Preface to the Fifth Edition Acknowledgements Feminist Theory: Local and
Global Perspectives Introduction Section 1: Theorizing Feminist Times and
Spaces Box 1 - Simone De Beauvoir The Other Box 2 - Gayle Rubin
Sex/Gender System Box 3 - Joan Scott Dimensions of Gender Box 4 - Audre
Lorde Poetry is Not a Luxury & Transformation of Silence Box 5 - Kimberly
Crenshaw Intersectionality Part 1: Mid-twentieth Century Foundations
1. The
Day the Mountains Move Yosano Akiko
2. Womens Liberation: Seeing the
Revolution Clearly Sara M. Evans
3. Lost Visions of Equality: The Labor
Origins of the Next Womens Movement Dorothy Sue Cobble
4. Globalization of
the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Womens Movements
Amrita Basu
5. A Black Feminist Statement The Combahee River Collective 6.La
Chicana Elizabeth Martinez
7. Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance Cheryl Clarke
8. Bargaining with Patriarchy Deniz Kandiyoti Part 2: Moving Beyond Binaries
and Borders
9. Lost (And Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric
Dialogue Claudia de Lima Costa
10. Reweaving the World, Introduction Irene
Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein
11. Understanding Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross
12. The Transfeminist Manifesto Emi Koyama
13. Reckoning with
the Silences of #MeToo Ashwini Tambe Section 2: Theorizing Intersectionality
and Difference Box 6 - Adrienne Rich The Politics of Location Box 7 -
Gloria Anzaldúa Mestiza Consciousness Box 8 - Karl Marx Historical
Materialism Box 9 - Edward Said Orientalism Box 10 - Walter Mignolo
Decolonization Box 11 - Monique Wittig The Myth of Woman Part 1:
Intersectionality
14. Critical Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens
Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana
15. Jennifer C. Nash, Re-thinking
Intersectionality
16. Vrushali Patil, From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A
Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far Weve Really Come Part 2:
Configurations of Difference
17. Heidi Hartmann, The Unhappy Marriage of
Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union
18. Andrea Smith,
Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women
of Color Organizing
19. Lila Abu-Lughod, Orientalism and Middle East Feminist
Studies
20. Mrinalini Sinha, Gender and Nation
21. Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and
Angie Morrill, Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler
Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy
22. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Integrating
Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 23.Raewyn Connell, The Social
Organization of Masculinity Part
3. Boundaries and Belongings
24. Donna Kate
Rushin, The Bridge Poem
25. June Jordan, Report from the Bahamas
26. Minnie
Bruce Pratt, Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart
27. Audre Lorde, I am Your Sister:
Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities
28. Lionel Cantú with Eithne
Luibheid and Alexandra Minna Stern, Well Founded Fear: Political Asylum and
the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.Mexico Borderlands
29. Simone
Chess, Alison Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson, Calling All
Restroom Revolutionaries!
30. Leila Ahmed, The Veil Debate Again
31. Obioma
Nnaemeka, Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of
Globalization
32. Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Settler Xicana: Postcolonial and
Decolonial Reflections on Incommensurability SECTION III: Theorizing Feminist
Knowledge and Agency Box 12 - Patricia Hill Collins Matrix of Domination
Box 13 - Chandra Talpade Mohanty "Under Western Eyes" Box 14 - Chela
Sandoval Oppositional Consciousness Box 15 - Michel Foucault
Normalization Box 16 - Judith Butler The Gender Binary Part One:
Standpoints and Situated Knowledges
33. Nancy C.M. Hartsock, The Feminist
Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
34.
Patricia Hill Collins, Defining Black Feminist Thought
35. Chandra Talpade
Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through
Anticapitalist Struggles
36. Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges: The Science
Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
37. Cathy J.
Cohen, Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer
Politics
38. Sandra Harding, Standpoint Theories: Productively Controversial
39. Cherríe Moraga, The Welder Part Two: Subject Formation and Performativity
40. Lata Mani, Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of
Multinational Reception
41. Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the
Modernization of Patriarchal Power
41. Judith Butler, Performative Acts and
Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Part
Three: Embodied and Affective Knowledge
42. Alison M. Jaggar, Love and
Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology
43. Sara Ahmed, Multiculturalism
and the Promise of Happiness
44. Kathy Davis, Reclaiming Womens Bodies:
Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology?
45. Bettina Judd, In 2006 I Had
an Ordeal with Medicine SECTION IV: Imagine Otherwise/Solidarity Reconsidered
Box 17 - Avery Gordon Imagine Otherwise Box 18 - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Friction Box 19 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak The Politics of Translation
Box 20 - Vandana Shiva Womens Ecological Struggles Imagine Otherwise
46.
Jasbir K. Puar, "I Would Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess":
Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory
47. Viviane Namaste, Undoing
Theory: The Transgender Question and the Epistemic Violence of
Anglo-American Feminist Theory
48. AnaLouise Keating, "Im a Citizen of the
Universe": Gloria Anzalduas Spiritual Activism as Catalyst for Social Change
49. Nirmala Erevelles, The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and
Disability in Wartime Solidarity Reconsidered
50. Breny Mendoza,
Transnational Feminisms in Question
51. Na-Young Lee, The Korean Womens
Movement of Japanese Military Comfort Women: Navigating between Nationalism
and Feminism
52. Niamh Moore, Eco/Feminism and Rewriting the End of Feminism:
From the Chipko Movement to Clayoquot Sound
53. Eileen Boris and Rhacel
Salazar Parreñas, Intimate Labors, Introduction
54. Malika Ndlovu, Out of
Now-Here Works Cited Credits Index
Carole R. McCann is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender, Womens, + Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author most recently of Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century.
Seung-kyung Kim is Korea Foundation Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director of the Institute for Korean Studies in the School of Global and International Studies; and Affiliate Faculty of the Gender Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington.
Emek Ergun is an Assistant Professor of Womens and Gender Studies and Global Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is also the co-editor of Feminist Translation Studies (Routledge, 2017). She is an activist feminist translator and her most recent translation is of Octavia Butlers Kindred, published in Turkey in 2019.
