Feminist Studies

An Introductory Reader
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-37718-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 778 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1438 g

Reihe: xx xx

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader offers a unique approach to teaching and learning feminist thought.

Crafted with the movement and translation of ideas in mind, this book is broken into four sections: Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Ontologies, Feminist Orientations, and Resistance. Each chapter includes two well-known classic texts that commonly appear in Feminist Studies classes as well as two new texts written by scholars who engage, critique, and extend those ideas in their work. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website, which includes discussion questions, assignment ideas, lesson plans, and other materials useful for classroom instruction.

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader is designed for those new to feminism as well as more seasoned feminist thinkers. It is an ideal resource for students in introductory and advanced feminist theory courses, as well as those interested in social scientific and humanistic inquiry more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Hemangini

Sharron, Kelly

Thomsen, Carly

Weil, Abraham

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introducing This Volume Section 1: Feminist Epistemologies and Frameworks: Asking Questions in Feminist Ways Introduction Part I: Feminist Historiography I.1 Telling Feminist Stories I.2 Transgender History I.3 Feminist Historiography: Constructing the Past in the Present and for the Future I.4 Calling All Chicana Feminist Theorists, Trans Historians, and Queer Femme Scholars: Abject Epistemologies in Feminist Theory Historiography Part II: Power II.1 The History of Sexuality Volume I II.2 Can the Subaltern Speak? II.3 “People with Uteruses”: Uterine Transplantation, In/fertility, and Trans Pregnancy II.4 Feminists Disrupt Power: Rape and the Heterogeneity of Subjugated Resistance PART III: Materiality III.1 Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse III.2 Animacies III.3 Materiality, Compulsory Sexuality, and Sexual Desire III.4 Disruptive Diffusion: Materiality and the Politics of AI-Generated Art PART IV: Affect IV.1 Cruel Optimism IV.2 Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology IV.3 A Body-Grounded View of China’s Neoliberal Transition IV.4 Out of Line PART V: State Institutions V.1 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty V.2 Terrorist Assemblages V.3 A State of Contradictions V.4 Mak Nyahs and the Subject of Rights: Perversity, Piety, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Malaysia PART VI: Political Economy VI.1 Wages Against Housework VI.2 Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics VI.3 What’s Love Got to Do With It? VI.4 When the Office Is Family: Queering Social Reproduction under Startup Capitalism Section 2: Feminist Ontologies: On Feminist Ways of Being Introduction PART VII: Experience VII.1 The Evidence of Experience VII.2 Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception VII.3 press, release, return: Edging Towards the Subject, or Filipinx Feminist Form in Three Parts VII.4 Experience-as-Expertise: Cis Women Athletes and Anti-Trans Sentiment PART VIII: Identity VIII.1 Gender Trouble VIII.2 Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics VIII.3 Performative Disruption: The Lesbian Avengers Civil Rights Organizing Project and the Threat of Rural Homophobia VIII.4 Identity Politics and Queer Theory’s Welfare Genealogies PART IX: Intersectionality IX.1 Mapping the Margins IX.2 Rethinking Intersectionality IX.3 Sleeping Babies, Technology, and the Construction of Risk IX.4 Reading at the Nexus of Neglect and Fetishization: The “Occult” of Intersectionality PART X: Reproductive Justice X.1 Reproductive Justice: An Introduction X.2 The Cancer Journals X.3 Intersectional Feminism and the Health Humanities X.4 “To Claim My Own Body”: Vaginismus as a Reproductive, Feminist, and Disability Justice Issue Section 3: Feminist Orientations: New Directions in the Field Introduction PART XI: Critical Geographies XI.1 Toward a Decolonial Feminism XI.2 Global Divas XI.3 Traveling the Topographies of Mexico City’s Lesbian Spaces XI.4 Mobility, Marginality, and Decoloniality in Feminist Theories of Place PART XII: Film and Media XII.1 Witch’s Flight XII.2 The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminism in an Age of Terror XII.3 Beautiful Activists: A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Race in Essence Magazine, 1970 XII.4 Boss: Beyoncé’s Rhetorical Performance of Black Womanhood PART XIII: Feminist Science and Technology Studies XIII.1 Cyborg Manifesto XIII.2 Egg and Sperm: A Scientific Fairytale XIII.3 Feminist and Queer STS XIII.4 More than Cyborgs: Metaphors for Thinking, Surviving, and Gathering PART XIV: More-Than-Human Attunements XIV.1 Mohawk Mothers’ Milk XIV.2 Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals XIV.3 Transing Difference XIV.4 A Feminist Study of Breathing Section 4: Feminist Resistance: Mapping Multiple Futures Introduction PART XV: Institutionalization XV.1 The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference XV.2 In the Shadow of the Shadow State XV.3 Holly Near on Tour with the National Women’s Studies Association XV.4 In the University, But Not of It: The Diversity Industry vs. Queer Epistemologies PART XVI: Meaning-Making XVI.1 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza XVI.2 Against the Romance of Community XVI.3 Lesbian Feminism and the Challenge of Community XVI.4 Self-Craft and Coalition: Toward a New Class Consciousness PART XVII: Revolution XVII.1 Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First Century XVII.2 Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex XVII.3 Mutuality in Mutual Aid: Radical Care, Mask Making, and the Auntie Sewing Squad XVII.4 From Demands to Action: Using Transformative Justice to address Sexual Violence PART XVIII: Speculative Futures XVIII.1 On Racism XVIII.2 Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black Is the New Black—A 21st Century Manifesto XVIII.3 The Future-Past Is Disabled XVIII.4 Speculations Beyond Real Estate

Über Autor(innen)

Hemangini Gupta is Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India.Her work is published in Feminist Review, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Feminist Studies journals amongst others. Gupta completed her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.

Kelly Sharron is Assistant Teaching Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Sharron’s work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. Sharron completed her Ph.D. in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona.

Carly Thomsen is Associate Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She is the author of Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming. Her work appears in various academic journals and media outlets, including Signs, Political Geography, New York Times, Ms., and others. Her Feminist Studies Ph.D. is from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Abraham Weil is a scholar of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on radical political formations, anti-black racism, trans theorizing, and philosophy. Weil completed their Ph.D. in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Their work appears in Social Text, Critical Inquiry, The Black Scholar, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities.