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FOURTH EDITl,ON
FEMINIST
THEORY
READER
Local and G:lob•a:I
Perspectives
Edited by
CAROLER . ,McCANN
SEUNG-KYUNG KIM
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FEMINIST THEORY READER
The fourth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader continues to
challenge readers to rethink the complex meanings of difference
outside of contemporary Western feminist contexts. This new
edition contains a new subsection on intersectionality. New
readings turn readers' attention to current debates about
violence against women, sex work, care work, transfeminisms,
and postfeminism. The fourth edition also continues to expand
the diverse voices of transnational feminist scholars throughout,
with particular attention to questions of class.
Introductory essays at the beginning of each section bring the
readings together, provide historical and intellectual context,
and point to critical additional readings. Five core theoretical
concepts-gender, difference, women's experiences, the
personal is political, and intersectionality-anchor the
anthology's organizational framework. New to this edition, text
boxes in the introductory essays add excerpts from the writings
of foundational theorists that help define important theoretical
concepts.
Carole R. Mccann is Professor and Chair of Gender +
Women's Studies, Affiliate Professor of Language, Literacy, and
Culture, and Special Assistant to the Provost for
Interdisciplinary Activities at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County (UMBC).
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.
After all these years, this is still the book that I highly
recommend to students and colleagues who wanted to get a
solid grip on the complexity, breadth, and depth of feminist
theories that are constantly expanding and shifting. This fourth
edition is even more remarkable in its collection of essays that
showcase robust research that critically engage intersectional
and transnational perspectives, which are the two crucial
concepts in women's studies. As a whole, this reader exposes
students to various, vibrant, and oftentimes contradicting
conversations in feminism.
L. Ayu Saraswati, award winning author of Seeing
Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
Each edition of Feminist Theory Reader brings new insights to
how we, as feminists, may challenge the overlapping
inequalities that structure our existence-the fourth edition is a
welcome addition to this intellectual project. Included here are
classic examples of feminist theory-the ones that never seem
outdated-plus new articles that respond to changed
circumstances or deepen the insights of earlier work. This is the
perfect anthology not only for women's and gender studies
classrooms, but for all the many courses that are attentive to
social justice issues and structured inequality at the personal,
local, national, and transnational level.
Claire Goldberg Moses, Professor Emerita, University
of Maryland, College Park, and Editorial Director
Emerita, Feminist Studies
This extraordinary text has stood the test of time. The editors
keep the volume fresh with new developments and current
trends thus greatly expanding the value of feminist thinking for
understanding contemporary issues. Particularly significant is
the attention given to intersectionality and to transnational
feminist theory. I know of no other collection that captures the
power dynamics of gender and the complexity of difference.
Mary Fonow, Norton and Ramsey Professor of Social
Transformation and Women and Gender Studies,
Arizona State University
FEMINIST
LOCAL AND GLOBAL
THEORY
PERSPECTIVES
READER
FOURTH EDITION
Edited by
CAROLER. McCANN AND SEUNG-KYUNG KIM
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Third edition published by Routledge 2013
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Mccann, Carole R. (Carole Ruth), 1955- editor. I Kim, Seung-Kyung,
1954- editor.
Title: Feminist theory reader I [edited] by Carole Mccann and Seung-Kyung
Kim.
Description: Fourth Edition. I New York: Routledge, 2016. I Revised edition of
Feminist theory reader, 2013. I Includes index.
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CONTENTS
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feminist Theory, Local and Global Perspectives
SECTION I
INTRODUCTION: THEORIZING FEMINIST TIMES AND
SPACES
Box 1: Bernice Johnson Reagon-Coalition Politics
Box 2: Simone de Beauvoir-The Other
Box 3: Gayle Rubin-Sex/Gender System
Box 4: Joan Scott-Dimensions of Gender
Box 5: Antonio Gramsci-Hegemony
Feminist Movements
1. Yosano Akiko, "The Day the Mountains Move"
2. Nancy A. Hewitt, "Re-Rooting American Women's
Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848"
3. Linda Nicholson, "Feminism in 'Waves': Useful Metaphor
or Not?"
4. Becky Thompson, "Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the
Chronology of Second Wave Feminism"
5. Amrita Basu, "Globalization of the Local/Localization of
the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements"
6. Dorothy Sue Cobble, "Lost Visions of Equality: The Labor
Origins of the Next Women's Movement"
7. Michelle V. Rowley, "The Idea of Ancestry: Of Feminist
Genealogies and Many Other Things"
Local Identities and Politics
8. Muriel Rukeyser, "The Poem as Mask"
9. T. V. Reed, "The Poetical is the Political: Feminist Poetry
and the Poetics of Women's Rights"
10. Deniz Kandiyoti, "Bargaining with Patriarchy"
11. Elizabeth Martinez, "La Chicana"
12. The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist
Statement"
13. Shulamith Firestone, "The Culture of Romance"
14. Cheryl Clarke, "Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance"
15. Kathy Miriam, "Stopping the Traffic in Women: Power,
Agency, and Abolition in Feminist Debates over Sex
Trafficking"
16. Emi Koyama, "The Transfeminist Manifesto"
SECTION II
INTRODUCTION: THEORIZING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES
Box 6: Kimberle Crenshaw-lntersectionality
Box 7: Karl Marx-Historical Materialism
Box 8: Edward Said-Orientalism
Box 9: Gloria Anzaldua-Mestiza Consciousness
Box 10: Adrienne Rich-The Politics of Location
lntersectionality
17. Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana, "Critical
Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens"
18. Jennifer C. Nash, "Re-Thinking lntersectionality"
19. Vrushali Patil, "From Patriarchy to lntersectionality: A
Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've
Really Come"
Social Processes/Configuring Differences
20. Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and
Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union"
21. Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, "Servants of Globalization:
Women, Migration, and Domestic Work''
22. Lila Abu-Lughod, "Orientalism and Middle East Feminist
Studies"
23. Mrinalini Sinha, "Gender and Nation"
24. Andrea Smith, "Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of
White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color
Organizing"
25. Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman"
26. Raewyn Connell, "The Social Organization of Masculinity"
Boundaries and Belongings
27. Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem"
28. June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas"
29. Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart"
30. Audre Lorde, "I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing
Across Sexualities"
