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Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader

by Christina Gilmartin, Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Robin Lydenberg. 388 pgs.

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CONTENTS
Foreword v
Acknowledgments viii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
I. Feminist Critiques Within the Disciplines
Emily Martin The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles 15
Susan Bordo Feminist Skepticism and the "Maleness" of Philosophy 29
Kathleen Canning Feminist History After the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience 45
II. The Politics of Identity and Experience
Joan Scott The Evidence of Experience 79
Jayati Lal Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and "Other" in Living and Writing the Text 100
Catherine Raissiguier The Construction of Marginal Identities: Working-class Girls of Algerian Descent in a French School 138
III. The Social Construction of Difference
Patricia Hill Collins Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought 135
bell hooks Eating the Other 179
Susan Lanser Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America 195
IV. Power and Resistance
Deniz Kandiyoti Islam and Patriarchy: A Comparative Perspective 219
Monique Deveaux Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault 236
V. Representations of the Body
Anne Raine Embodied Geographies: Subjectivity and Materiality in the Work of Ana Mendieta. 259
Rayna Rapp The Power of "Positive" Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis 287
Valerie Traub The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris 301
VI. Social Policy and Female Agency
Roberta Spalter-Roth Small Happinesses: The Feminist Struggle and Heidi Hartmann to Integrate Social Research with Social Activism 333
Cindy Patton From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS 348
Chandra Talpade Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Mohanty Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity 362
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