This revised and expanded edition, new in paperback, provides a definitive collection on the current period in feminism known by many as the 'third wave'. Three sections - genealogies and generations, locales and locations, politics and popular culture - interrogate the wave metaphor and, through questioning the generational account of feminism, indicate possible future trajectories for the feminist movement. New to this edition are an interview with Luce Irigaray, a foreword by Imelda Whelehan as well as newly commissioned chapters.
Acknowledgements viii *
Notes on Contributors ix * Introduction 1 *
Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford * Part I Genealogies * Introduction: Genealogies 9 *
Jane Spencer * 1 ‘It’s All About the Benjamins’: Economic Determinants * of Third Wave Feminism in the United States 13 *
Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake * 2 Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: * Feminism and Popular Consciousness 24 *
Ednie Kaeh Garrison * 3 Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism 37 *
Gillian Howie and Ashley Tauchert * 4 ‘Feminists Love a Utopia’: Collaboration, Conflict, and * the Futures of Feminism 49 *
Lise Shapiro Sanders * 5 Interview with Elaine Showalter 60 *
Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford * Part II Sex and Gender * Introduction: Sex and Gender 67 *
Margrit Shildrick * 6 Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: * Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues 72 *
Mary Orr * 7 On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of * Anti-Essentialism 85 *
Alison Stone * vi
Contents * 8 ‘You’re Not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?’ * The Question of Male-Embodied Feminism 97 *
Andrew Shail * 9 Finding Ourselves: Postmodern Identities and the * Transgender Movement 110 *
Edward Davies * 10 Qu(e)erying Pornography: Contesting Identity * Politics in Feminism 122 *
Wendy O’Brien * Part III Popular Culture * Introduction: Popular Culture 137 *
Pamela Church Gibson * 11 ‘Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss’: Gender, Generation and * the (A)politics of Girl Power 142 *
Rebecca Munford * 12 (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and
Ally McBeal 154 *
Kristyn Gorton * 13 ‘Kicking Ass is Comfort Food’: Buffy as Third * Wave Feminist Icon 164 *
Patricia Pender * 14 ‘Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma’am!’: The New * Public/Private Female Action Hero 175 *
Cristina Lucia Stasia * 15 Neither Cyborg Nor Goddess: The (Im)Possibilities * of Cyberfeminism 185 *
Stacy Gillis * Part IV Challenges * Introduction: Challenges 199 *
Nicole Ward Jouve * 16 Wa(i)ving it All Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge * in Feminisms of Colour 205 *
Mridula Nath Chakraborty * 17 Muslim Feminism in the Third Wave: * A Reflective Inquiry 216 *
Sherin Saadallah * Contents vii * 18 Ecofeminism as Third Wave Feminism? Essentialism, * Activism and the Academy 227 *
Niamh Moore * 19 What Happened to Global Sisterhood? Writing and * Reading ‘the’ Postcolonial Woman 240 *
Denise deCaires Narain * 20 Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, * Third World Cultural Production 252 *
Winifred Woodhull * Name Index 263 *
Subject Index 264
Acknowledgements viii *
Notes on Contributors ix * Introduction 1 *
Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford * Part I Genealogies * Introduction: Genealogies 9 *
Jane Spencer * 1 ‘It’s All About the Benjamins’: Economic Determinants * of Third Wave Feminism in the United States 13 *
Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake * 2 Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: * Feminism and Popular Consciousness 24 *
Ednie Kaeh Garrison * 3 Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism 37 *
Gillian Howie and Ashley Tauchert * 4 ‘Feminists Love a Utopia’: Collaboration, Conflict, and * the Futures of Feminism 49 *
Lise Shapiro Sanders * 5 Interview with Elaine Showalter 60 *
Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford * Part II Sex and Gender * Introduction: Sex and Gender 67 *
Margrit Shildrick * 6 Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: * Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues 72 *
Mary Orr * 7 On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of * Anti-Essentialism 85 *
Alison Stone * vi
Contents * 8 ‘You’re Not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?’ * The Question of Male-Embodied Feminism 97 *
Andrew Shail * 9 Finding Ourselves: Postmodern Identities and the * Transgender Movement 110 *
Edward Davies * 10 Qu(e)erying Pornography: Contesting Identity * Politics in Feminism 122 *
Wendy O’Brien * Part III Popular Culture * Introduction: Popular Culture 137 *
Pamela Church Gibson * 11 ‘Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss’: Gender, Generation and * the (A)politics of Girl Power 142 *
Rebecca Munford * 12 (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and
Ally McBeal 154 *
Kristyn Gorton * 13 ‘Kicking Ass is Comfort Food’: Buffy as Third * Wave Feminist Icon 164 *
Patricia Pender * 14 ‘Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma’am!’: The New * Public/Private Female Action Hero 175 *
Cristina Lucia Stasia * 15 Neither Cyborg Nor Goddess: The (Im)Possibilities * of Cyberfeminism 185 *
Stacy Gillis * Part IV Challenges * Introduction: Challenges 199 *
Nicole Ward Jouve * 16 Wa(i)ving it All Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge * in Feminisms of Colour 205 *
Mridula Nath Chakraborty * 17 Muslim Feminism in the Third Wave: * A Reflective Inquiry 216 *
Sherin Saadallah * Contents vii * 18 Ecofeminism as Third Wave Feminism? Essentialism, * Activism and the Academy 227 *
Niamh Moore * 19 What Happened to Global Sisterhood? Writing and * Reading ‘the’ Postcolonial Woman 240 *
Denise deCaires Narain * 20 Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, * Third World Cultural Production 252 *
Winifred Woodhull * Name Index 263 *
Subject Index 264