Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Table of contents

• Theorizing Feminism *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Credits ix
• Reading Feminist Theories Collaborating across Disciplines xi
• Part One - Inventing Gender 1
• Defining Feminism and Feminist Theory 5
• 1 - What Is Feminism? 5
• 2 - The Combahee River Collective Statement 29
• 3 - From a Long Line of Verididas Chicanas and Feminism 38
• 4 - Anti-Anti-Identity Politics 56
• Mutual Influence: Humanities and Social Science 78
• 5 - Gender and the Meaning of Difference 78
• 6 - Romance in the Age of Electronics 110
• Part Two - Sex, Sexuality, and Gender 131
• From Sex to Sexuality 135
• 7 - The Medical Construction of Gender 135
• 8 - The Politics of Androgyny in Japan 158
• Construction Gender 196
• 9 - Notes toward a Feminist Peace Politics 196
• 10 - Making It Perfectly Queer 215
• Conceptualizing Difference 232
• Sex Equality - On Difference and Dominance 232
• 12 - Deconstructing Equality‐ Versus-Difference 254
• Part Three - Gender, Race, and Class 271
• Race and Gender 276
• 13 - On Being the Object of Property 276
• 14 - Gender, Race, Raza 295
• Postcolonialism 321
• 15 - Feminism and Difference 321
• 16 - Violence in the Other Country 345
• Work, Class, and Gender 365
• 17 - From High Heels to Swathed Bodies 365
• 18 - Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance 387
• Part Four - Questioning Feminisms 413
• Women, Citizenship, and Activism 416
• 19 - Fetal Images 416
• 20 - Dissident Citizenship 443
• Feminism/Postfeminism 482
• 21 - Automating Gender 482
• 22 - African and Western Feminisms 501

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