Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Second Edition
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Credits -- Reading Feminist Theories: Collaborating Across Disciplines -- Part One: Inventing Gender -- Defining Feminism and Feminist Theory -- 1 What Is Feminism? -- 2 The Combahee River Collective Statement -- 3 From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism -- 4 Anti-Anti-Identity Politics: Feminism, Democracy, and the Complexities of Citizenship -- Mutual Influence: Humanities and Social Science -- 5 Gender and the Meaning of Difference: Postmodernism and Psychology -- 6 Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises -- Part Two: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender -- From Sex to Sexuality -- 7 The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants -- 8 The Politics of Androgyny in Japan: Sexuality and Subversion in the Theater and Beyond -- Constructing Gender -- 9 Notes Toward a Feminist Peace Politics -- 10 Making It Perfectly Queer -- Conceptualizing Difference -- 11 Sex Equality: On Difference and Dominance -- 12 Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism -- Part Three: Gender, Race, and Class -- Race and Gender -- 13 On Being the Object of Property -- 14 Gender, Race, Raza -- Postcolonialism -- 15 Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria -- 16 Violence in the Other Country: China as Crisis, Spectacle, and Woman -- Work, Class, and Gender -- 17 From High Heels to Swathed Bodies: Gendered Meanings Under Production in Mexico's Export-Processing Industry -- 18 Hegemonie Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo -- Part Four: Questioning Feminisms -- Women, Citizenship, and Activism -- 19 Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction