| Description |
xii, 599 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Oxford readers |
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Oxford readers.
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| Contents |
1. In Praise of Theory: The Case for Women's Studies / Mary Evans -- 2. Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression / Bell Hooks -- 3. Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema / Teresa De Lauretis -- 4. Speaking/Writing/Feminism / Cora Kaplan -- 5. Me and My Shadow / Jane Tompkins -- 6. French Feminism in an International Frame / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- 7. Not One of the Family: The Repression of the Other Woman in Feminist Theory / Helena Michie -- 8. A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory / Elaine Showalter -- 9. The Race for Theory / Barbara Christian -- 10. Notes for an Analysis / Alice Jardine -- 11. The Truth that Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s / Barbara Smith -- 12. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 13. Paradoxes of Participation / Anne Phillips -- 14. Feminist Confessions: The Last Degrees are the Hardest / Nancy Miller -- 15. Postcard from the Edge: Thoughts on the 'Feminist Theory: An International Debate' Conference held at Glasgow University, Scotland, 12-15 July 1991 / Susannah Radstone -- 16. Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory / Jane Gallop -- 17. Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis / Michele Barrett -- 18. Changing the Subject / Naomi Scheman -- 19. Materializing Locations: Images and Selves / Elspeth Probyn -- 20. The Place of Women's Studies in the Contemporary University / Anna Yeatman -- 21. In a Different Voice / Carol Gilligan -- 22. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism / Nancy Hartsock -- 23. Is there a Feminist Method? / Sandra Harding -- 24. Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory / Jane Flax -- 25. Thoroughly Postmodern Feminist Criticism / Elizabeth Wright -- 26. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory / Nancy Chodorow -- 27. Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology / Alison Jaggar -- 28. The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public / Iris Young -- 29. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins -- 30. Modernism, Postmodernism, Gender: The View from Feminism / Patricia Waugh -- 31. The Generalized and the Concrete Other / Seyla Benhabib -- 32. One is not Born a Woman / Monique Wittig -- 33. Black Women and Feminism / Bell Hooks -- 34. Psychoanalysis and the Polis / Julia Kristeva -- 35. Sorties / Helene Cixous -- 36. Woman: The One and the Many / Elizabeth Spelman -- 37. Authenticity and the Writing Cure: Reading Some Migrant Women's Writing / Sneja Gunew -- 38. Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History / Denise Riley -- 39. Feminist, Female, Feminine / Toril Moi -- 40. The 'Risk' of Essence / Diana Fuss -- 41. Still Crazy After All These Years / Rachel Bowlby -- 42. Their 'symbolic' exists, it holds power - we, the sowers of disorder, know it only too well / Morag Shiach -- 43. Recovering Women in History from Feminist Deconstructionism / Liz Stanley -- 44. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire / Judith Butler -- 45. Feminism, Humanism, Postmodernism / Kate Soper -- 46. Love, Mourning and Metaphor: Terms of Identity / Kadiatu Kanneh -- 47. Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary Body / Elizabeth Grosz -- 48. The Other: Woman / Luce Irigaray -- 49. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence / Adrienne Rich -- 50. Pornography / Andrea Dworkin -- 51. Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality / Carole Vance -- 52. 'Returning to Manderley' - Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class / Alison Light -- 53. Sexual Politics and Sexual Meaning / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- 54. A Central Issue: Sexual Violence and Feminist Theory / Liz Kelly -- 55. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State / Catharine MacKinnon -- 56. Slim and Sexy: Modern Woman's Holy Grail / Rosalind Coward -- 57. Queer Notions / Cherry Smyth -- 58. Queer Theory and the War of the Sexes / Mary McIntosh -- 59. Is Transgression Transgressive? / Elizabeth Wilson -- 60. Sexual Liberation and Feminist Politics / Lynne Segal -- 61. AIDS, Identity, and the Politics of Gender / Paula Treichler -- 62. The Mirror of Pornography / Wendy Brown -- 63. Bisexual Feminism: Challenging the Splits / Susan Sturgis -- 64. Sexuality in the Field of Vision / Jacqueline Rose -- 65. The Acoustic Mirror / Kaja Silvermann -- 66. The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism / Annette Kuhn -- 67. Whose Imaginary: The Televisual Apparatus, the Female Body and Textual Strategies in Select Rock Videos on MTV / E. Ann Kaplan -- 68. The Dialectic of 'Feminism' and 'Aesthetics' / Rita Felski -- 69. Missing Women: Rethinking Early Thoughts on Images of Women / Griselda Pollock -- 70. Just Like a Woman / Abigail Solomon Godeau -- 71. Getting Down to Basics: Art, Obscenity and the Female Nude / Lynda Nead -- 72. Broken Symmetries: Memory, Sight, Love / Peggy Phelan -- 73. Normalisation and Resistance in the Era of the Image / Susan Bordo -- 74. Frida Kahlo's 'Grotesque Bodies' / Kate Chedgzoy -- 75. Women and Ecology / Carolyn Merchant -- 76. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s / Donna Haraway -- 77. Reproductive Technologies: Tampering with Nature? / Michelle Stanworth -- 78. Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical-Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood / Sarah Franklin -- 79. Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology / Constance Penley -- 80. Less Nature, More Technology / Marilyn Strathern -- 81. Ecofeminism / Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva -- 82. Beyond the Screens: Film, Cyberpunk and Cyberfeminism / Sadie Plant -- 83. Feminism and the Technological Fix / Carol Stabile -- 84. Looking for the Gender/Technology Relation / Cynthia Cockburn and Ruza Furst-Dilic -- 85. Tinysex and Gender Trouble / Sherry Turkle -- 86. Cyberfeminism with a Difference / Rosi Braidotti |
| Summary |
"Spanning nearly two decades, from 1980 to 1996, this Reader investigates the debates which have best characterized feminist theory. Including such articles as Pornography and Fantasy, The Body and Cinema, Nature as Female, and A Manifesto for Cyborgs, the extracts examine thoughts on sexualtiy as a domain of exploration, the visual representation of women, what being a feminist means, and why feminists are increasingly involved in political struggles to negotiate the context and meaning of technological development. With writings by bell hooks, Alice Jardine, and Andrea Dworkin, this multicultural Reader reflects the dynamic nature of feminist debates and the genuine diversity within current feminist theory. Capturing the sense of the rapid movement within feminist theory and criticism, Feminisms is ideal for anyone interested in feminism and the history behind it."--Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
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Feminist theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [574]-587) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Women's studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90611192
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| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women's studies.
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| Author |
Kemp, Sandra.
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Squires, Judith.
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| LC no. |
96048249 |
| ISBN |
0192892703 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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