Synopses & Reviews
The Feminist Theory Reader provides a revolutionary new approach to anthologizing the important works in feminist theory by incorporating the voices of women of color and postcolonial scholars throughout. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Charlotte Bunch, Adrienne Rich, Donna Haraway and Monique Wittig appear alongside Amrita Basu, Gayatri Gopinath, Ji Yeon Lee, Gloria Anzaldua, and Chandra Mohanty, providing both local and global perspectives and infusing the collection with the vitality needed for contemporary study.
By incorporating global perspectives throughout the anthology, the Reader itself offers a challenge to the hegemony of white, Western feminism, providing an approach to feminist theory for the twenty-first century. This approach includes the conversations among postcolonial women and women of color about issues of gender, race, colonialism, and sexuality as paramount to understanding the concerns of feminism. This important new Reader will soon become the definitive collection of classic and contemporary readings in feminist theory.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index.
Synopsis
Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.
Table of Contents
Reproductive and sexual rights : a feminist perspective / Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky -- African feminism : toward a new politics of representation / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Ecofeminist appropriations and transnational environmentalisms / Noèel Sturgeon -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes -- Wartime sexual violence against women : a feminist response / Margaret D. Stetz. Theorizing intersecting identities. Race and nation. A black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective -- The bridge poem / Donna Kate Rushin -- Invisibility is an unnatural disaster : reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada -- La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldâua -- The preferential symbol for Islamic identity : women in Muslim personal laws / Marie-Aimâee Hâelie-Lucas -- Some reflections on U.S. women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China / Mallika Dutt.