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What are men doing in feminist discourse? Although many feminists have commented on the relation, actual or possible, of men to feminist thinking and practice, and although some male academics have written about feminism, there has so far been little shared discussion. Men in Feminism is the first substantial attempt to produce a dialogue between feminists and their male allies.This lively book, comprised of essays by both men and women, is a controversial sally in the current debate over the future of feminist theory. Its focus is one seemingly direct and yet surprisingly prickly question: th

"Feminist Theory and Pop Culture (Second Edition) synthesizes feminist theory with modern portrayals of gender in media culture. This updated text provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary scholarship focused on topics related to: - Historical examination of feminist theory - Application of feminist research methods - Feminist theoretical perspectives such as the male gaze, feminist standpoint theory, Black feminist thought, queer theory, masculinity theory, theories of feminist activism, and postfeminism. - Contributor chapters cover a range of topics from Western perspectives on belly dance to television shows such as Girls, Scandal, and Orange is the New Black. - Feminist theory and the wave of feminism, including a discussion of the fourth wave - Pedagogical features - Suggestions for further reading and discussion questions for classroom use Feminist Theory and Pop Culture was designed for classroom use and has been written with an eye toward engaging students in discussion. The book's polished perspective on feminist theory juxtaposes popular culture with theoretical perspectives which have served as a foundation for the study of gender. This interdisciplinary text can serve as a primary or supplemental reading"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Feminist Conceptions of Power: A Critical Assessment -- Power as Resource -- Power as Domination -- Power as Empowerment -- Conclusion -- 2 The Genealogy of Power: Michel Foucault -- Foucault's Conception of Power -- A Theory for Women? -- A Theory for Feminists -- Limits to the Collaboration: Resistance, Agency, and Solidarity, -- Conclusion -- 3 Power Trouble: Judith Butler's Feminist Genealogy of Power -- Performativity: Take One -- Performativity: Take Two -- Limitations to Performativity -- Conclusion -- 4 The Power of Solidarity: Hannah Arendt -- Foucault, Butler, and Arendt: An Unlikely Alliance -- Arendt's Conception of Power -- Beyond Sisterhood: Rethinking Solidarity -- A Limitation to Arendt's Conception of Power -- 5 A Feminist Conception of Power -- Defining Power -- Methodological Considerations -- Bibliography -- Index

The death of Jean Baudrillard in 2007 brought about a resurgence of feminist scholarship on his work. But in all recent feminist scholarship on Baudrillard, save for Victoria Grace's Baudrillard's Challenge: A Feminist Reading (2000), feminists focus on Baudrillard's later theory of simulation, forestalling any reconsideration of his earlier text Seduction (1979). In this article I argue that a theory of seduction facilitates the unveiling of a hitherto unnoticed strain of feminist writing that proposes an ongoing challenge to masculine power and politics. This strategy of seduction is one that can be traced through a history of modern feminism, from Joan Rivière's concept of 'womanliness' in 'Womanliness as Masquerade' to Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine in 'The Laugh of the Medusa' to Virginia Woolf's 'mulberry tree' in Three Guineas.

Designed for students of social policy and women's studies, this text gives a readable account of the wide range of feminist ideas about women and welfare. The authors draw on feminist theory, research and analysis to explore women's experiences of welfare, and the debates within feminism on how and why the welfare state oppresses women. In an original contribution they discuss women's impact on the development of the welfare state both as feminist campaigners and as pioneers of new welfare professions. The book concludes by reviewing contemporary feminist strategies to transform the welfare s

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of structuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalytic criticism; just as rapidly it has been shedding its own early theories and methodologies. Now it is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In Problems for Feminist Criticism five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have offered a re-

Cover -- Licence -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Initial Articulations of the 'Woman' Problem -- Virginia Woolf -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Radical Feminism -- Kate Millett, Sexual Politics -- Shulamith Firestone -- Radicalesbians -- Mary Daly -- Black Feminism -- Audre Lorde -- Alice Walker -- Patricia Hill Collins -- French Feminism -- Luce Irigaray -- Hélène Cixous -- Monique Wittig -- Julia Kristeva -- Materialist Feminism -- Gayle Rubin -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Queer Theory -- Adrienne Rich -- Judith Butler -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Wayne Koestenbaum -- Afterword -- Who Needs Feminism? -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- Humanities-Ebooks.