A state of the art guide to the issues and debates surrounding feminist theory, mapping both the present and the future of this broad, interdisciplinary field.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Notes on the Editors and Contributors.
Introduction.
1: Epistemology and Marginality.
2: Feminist Epistemology and the Politics of Knowledge: Questions of Marginality.
3: Natural Others? on Nature, Culture and Knowledge.
4: Feminist Auto/biography.
5: Power in Feminist Research Processes.
6: Women's ‘Lived Experience': Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone De Beauvoir to the Present.
7: What Do Women Want? Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalytic Theory.
8: Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion and the Obligation to Alterity.
9: Religion, Feminist Theory and Epistemology.
10: Literary, Visual and Cultural Representation.
11: What Stories Make Worlds, What Worlds Make Stories: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.
12: On Maternal Listening: Experiments in Sound and the Mother–daughter Relation in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce.
13: The Space of a Movement: Life-Writing against Racism.
14: Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory.
15: Feminism and Pornography.
16: Representing Women in Popular Culture.
17: ‘It's All about Shopping’: The Role of Consumption in the Feminization of Journalism.
18: Sexuality.
19: (It's Not All) Kylie Concerts, Exotic Cocktails and Gossip: The Appearance of Sexuality through ‘gay’ Asylum in the UK.
20: Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality.
21: Thinking Sex Materially: Marxist, Socialist, and Related Feminist Approaches.
22: Transnational Black Feminisms, Womanisms and Queer of Color Critiques.
23: States’ Sexualities: Theorizing Sexuality, Gender and Governance.
24: The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: Gender, Rights and Representation.
25: Sexuality, Subjectivity … and Political Economy?.
26: Economy.
27: ‘Homo Economicus’ and ‘his’ Impact on Gendered Societies.
