Elizabeth Hackett / Sally Haslanger (eds.)

Theorizing Feminisms

A Reader
Herausgeber: Hackett, Elizabeth; Haslanger, Sally

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Produktbeschreibung

Theorizing Feminisms provides a survey of approaches to theoretical issues raised by the quest for gender justice. It takes as its organising questions: What is sexist oppression? What ought to be done about it? The goal of the text is to provide an overview of feminist reponses to, including a critique of, these questions. It is ideal for use in interdisciplinary feminist theory courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1090g
• ISBN-13: 9780195150094
• ISBN-10: 0195150090
• Artikelnr.: 21283766

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elizabeth Hackett, Assistant Professor and Director of Women's Studies Program, Agnes Scott College, Decatur and Sally Haslanger, Associate Professor of Philosophy, MIT

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* SECTION I. BACKGROUND CONCEPTS
* Introduction
* Oppression
* Iris M. Young, "Five Faces of Oppression"
* Social Construction
* Sally Haslanger, "Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When?
Where? How?"
* Susan Wendell, "The Social Construction of Disability"
* Trina Grillo, "Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to
Dismantle the Master's House"
* Epistemic Position
* Joanna Kadi, "Stupidity 'Deconstructed'"
* Patricia Hill Collins, "The Politics of Black Feminist Thought"
* Uma Narayan, "Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and
'Death by Culture'"
* Linda Alcoff, "The Problem of Speaking for Others"
* SECTION II: GENERAL APPROACHES TO SEX OPPRESSION
* Introduction
* The Sameness Approach ("Humanist Feminism")
* Theoretical Frames
* John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, Chapter 1
* Sojourner Truth, "Arn't I a Woman?"
* Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Introduction
* Martha C. Nussbaum, "Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings"
* Contextual Studies
* Susan Schechter, "Social Change on Behalf of Battered Women"
* Amartya Sen, "More than 100 Million Woman Are Missing"
* Kimberlé Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity
Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color"
* The Difference Approach ("Gynocentric Feminism")
* Theoretical Frames
* Iris M. Young, "Humanism, Gynocentrism, and Feminist Politics"
* Jane Addams, "Women and Public Housekeeping"
* Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"
* Paula Gunn, "Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism"
* Carol Gilligan, "Moral Orientation and Moral Development"
* Contextual Studies
* Carol P. Christ, "Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological,
Psychological, and Political Reflections"
* Alice Walker, "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)"
* Sara Ruddick, "Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics"
* Vandana Shiva, "Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity
Conservation"
* The Dominance Approach
* Theoretical Frames
* Catharine MacKinnon, "Difference and Domination: On Sex
Discrimination"
* Catherine MacKinnon, "Desire and Power" and "Sex and Violence: A
Perspective"
* Emma Goldman, "Woman Suffrage"
* Sandre Lee Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of
Patriarchal Power"
* Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"
* Contextual Studies
* John Stoltenberg, "Confronting Pornography as a Civil-Rights Issue"
* Lisa Duggan, Nan D. Hunter, and Carole S. Vance, "False Promises:
Feminist Antipornography Legislation"
* Marilyn Frye, "Willful Virgin or Do You Have to Be a Lesbian to Be a
Feminist?"
* bell hooks, "Seduced by Violence No More"
* SECTION III. LOCALIZING APPROACHES TO SEX OPPRESSION
* Introduction
* Postmodern Feminism
* Theoretical Frames
* Nancy Fraser and Linda J. Nicholson, "Social Criticism without
Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism"
* Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble
* bell hooks, "Postmodern Blackness"
* Contextual Studies
* Sharon Marcus, "Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and
Politics of Rape Prevention"
* Kate Bornstein, "Send in the Clowns"
* Susan Bordo, "Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture"
* Feminist Identity Politics
* Theoretical Frames
* Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory"
* Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"
* Mari Matsuda, "On Identity Politics"
* Contextual Studies
* Gloria Anzaldúa, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New
Consciousness"
* Angela Davis, "Mama's Got the Blues: Rivals, Girlfriends, and
Advisors"
* Dorothy E. Roberts, "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of
Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy"
* SECTION IV: FEMINIST ALLIES?
* Introduction
* Nancy Fraser, "Multiculturalism, Antiessentialism, and Radical
Democracy: A Genealogy of the Current Impasse in Feminist Theory"
* Postcolonial Theory
* Leela Gandhi, "Postcolonialism and Feminism"
* Ann Laura Stoler, "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race,
and Morality in Colonial Asia"
* Neo-materialist Theory
* Iris M. Young, "Socialist Feminism and the Limits of Dual Systems
Theory"
* Gwyn Kirk, "Standing on Solid Ground: A Materialist Ecological
Feminism"
* Queer Theory
* Leslie Feinberg, "Walking Our Talk"
* Gayle S. Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the
Politics of Sexuality"
* Judith Butler, "Against Proper Objects"
* Evelynn Hammonds, "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female
Sexuality"