FEMINIST THEORY READER: LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES – THIRD EDITION: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Feminist Theory, Local and Global Perspectives
SECTION I
Introduction: Theorizing Feminist Times and Spaces
Feminist Movements
Local Identities and Politics
SECTION II
Introduction: Theorizing Intersecting Identities
Social Processes/Configuring Differences
Boundaries and Belongings
SECTION III
Introduction: Theorizing Feminist Knowledge and Agency
Standpoint Epistemologies/Situational Knowledges
Poststructuralist Epistemologies
SECTION IV
Introduction: Imagine Otherwise
Bodies and Emotions
Solidarity Reconsidered
Works Cited
Credits
Index
Carole R. McCann is Director and Professor of Gender and Women’s
Studies and an affiliate faculty member of the Language, Literacy,
and Culture Graduate Program at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research expertise includes, feminist
science studies, twentieth century history of birth control,
eugenics, and population, and feminist theory. Her publications
include Birth control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945
(Cornell University Press, 1994, 1999). She is currently working on
a book manuscript about masculinities in mid-century population
sciences.
Seung-kyung Kim is Director and Associate Professor and Chair of
Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. Her
research expertise includes gender and labor politics, Ethnography,
Feminist Theory, and Women in East Asia and Asian America. The
author of numerous articles and book chapters, her publications
include Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: Lives of Women Factory
Workers in South Korea (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2009);
South Korean Feminists Bargain: Progressive Presidencies and the
Women’s Movement, 1998-2007 (forthcoming, Routledge). She is
currently working on a book manuscript, Global Citizens in the
Making?: Transnational Migration and Education in Kirogi Families.
In both its organization and its contents, McCann and Kim’s third
edition intertwines foundational and contemporary approaches to
feminist theory with multi-cultural and transnational perspectives.
The new anthology provides a robust resource for classes and a good
answer to that reductive question: "What can I read to help me
understand feminism?" --Sally L. Kitch, Women and Gender Studies,
Arizona State University With its innovative mix of classic and
contemporary texts, topics, and themes; its multigenre,
transnational approach; and its thoughtful challenge to the
feminist movement "wave" metaphor, this magnificent collection
should be required reading in women’s and gender studies and any
other courses informed by the desire for inclusionary
social-justice. --AnaLouise Keating, Women’s Studies, Texas
Woman’s University While maintaining the rich diversity of authors
and articles from earlier editions, the third edition of the
Feminist Theory Reader includes critical re-thinkings of
foundational feminist narratives. Significantly recasting the
opening and closing sections, McCann and Kim illuminate the ways
that scholarly assumptions about chronology, race, sexuality, and
globalization have shaped (and distorted) feminist theories and
practices and demonstrate the ways that scholars and activists
continue to challenge themselves and the wider world to struggle
against local and global inequalities. --Nancy A. Hewitt, History
and Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick The
two best features of the Feminist Theory Reader are: first, its
wholehearted embrace of the theoretical importance of
intersectionality and transnationalism; and second, its
simultaneous engagement with global and local throughout the book.
--Jae Kyung Lee, Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University In this
third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader, Carole R. McCann and
Seung-kyung Kim have expanded their classic anthology by including
articles that focus on the diversity of feminist theories. New
readings that integrate multicultural and transnational
perspectives join classic ones. The Feminist Theory Reader reaches
several audiences: upper-division students, graduate students and
scholars in feminist theory studies. -- Alma M. Garcia, Sociology,
Director of the Latin American Studies Program, Santa Clara
University Taken as a whole, this book is an excellent compendium
of texts dealing with any branch of feminist enquiry and theory...
I have no hesitation in recommending this excellent and
comprehensive resource. -- Deirdre Byrne, University of South
Africa
Gender Studies
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