Feminist theory: a reader

Reading feminist theory

1. Feminism / Paula Treichler and Cheris Kramarae

2. Womanist / Alice Walker

3. Not by degrees : feminist theory and education / Charlotte Bunch

4. Poetry is not a luxury / Audre Lorde

5. Have we got a theory for you! : feminist theory, cultural imperialism and the demand for 'the woman's voice' / Maria C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman

6. What is feminism? / Rosalind Delmar

7. Theory as liberatory practice / Bell Hooks

Lexicon of the debates

Bodies

Epistemologies

Essentialism/social construction/difference

Intersections of race, class, and gender

Language

Power

Psychoanalysis in/and feminism

Sexual division of labor

Sexualities

"Third world"/global feminism

1792-1920 : introduction

8. changing woman (Navajo origin myth)

9. Chapters II, VII, and XIII from A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft

10. Letter VIII from Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women / Sarah M. Grimke

11. Declaration of sentiments / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

12. Enfranchisement of women / Harriet Taylor

13. Ain't I a woman / Sojourner Truth

14. Keep the thing going while things are stirring / Sojourner Truth

15. Chapters 2 & 4 from The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill

16. Letter to my countrywomen, dwelling in the farmsteads and cottages of England / Josephine Butler

17. Speech after arrest for illegal voting / Susan B. Anthony

18. elixir of life; or, why do we die? / Victoria Woodhull

19. Why I became a 'woman's-rights man / Frederick Douglass

20. From The origin of the family, private property and the state / Friedrich Engels

21. status of woman in America / Anna Julia Cooper

22. Solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

23. Chapters VII and XIV from Women and economics : a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

24. From The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell

25. Lynching and the excuse for it / Ida B. Wells-Barnett

26. traffic in women / Emma Goldman

27. Girl slaves of the milwaukee breweries / Mother (Mary) Jones

28. Working woman and mother / Alexandra Kollontai

29. Now we can begin / Crystal Eastman

1920-1963 : introduction

30. Birth control - a parents' problem or woman's? / Margaret Sanger

31. Southern Negro women and race cooperation / Mary McLeod Bethune

32. Studies in feminine inversion / Stella Browne

33. Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere

34. Chapters 2, 5, and 6 from A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf

35. dread of woman : observations on a specific difference in the dread felt by men and by women respectively for the opposite sex / Karen Horney

36. Sex and temperament / Margaret Mead

37. haunting idea : its nature and origin / Mary Ritter Beard

38. comparative study : accentuating the similarities of the societal position of women and Negroes / Florynce Kennedy

39. Josie takes the stand / Ruth Herschberger

40. Introduction and chapter 12 from The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir

41. woman's place / Selma James

1963-1975 : introduction

42. problem that has no name / Betty Friedan

43. system at war with itself / Mary Douglas

44. Statement of purpose / National Organization for Women

45. BITCH manifesto / Jo Freeman

46. Theory of sexual politics / Kate Millett

47. Redstockings manifesto / Redstockings

48. argument for black women's liberation as a revolutionary force / Mary Ann Weathers

49. From The dialectic of sex / Shulamith Firestone

50. myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt

51. liberation of black women / Pauli Murray

52. woman-identified woman / Radicalesbians

53. Why OWL (older women's liberation)? / Older Women's League

54. Is female to male as nature is to culture? / Sherry B. Ortner

55. Not for lesbians only / Charlotte Bunch

56. laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous

57. From Language and woman's place / Robin Lakoff

58. Conclusion : women's liberation in Muslim countries / Fatima Mernissi

59. traffic in women : notes on the 'political economy' of sex / Gayle Rubin

1975-1985 : introduction

60. For a materialist feminism / Christine Delphy

61. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey

62. Chicana feminism / Anna NietoGomez

63. What became of God the mother? : conflicting images of God in early Christianity / Elaine H. Pagels

64. black feminist statement / Combahee River Collective

65. From This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray

66. sexual sociology of adult life / Nancy Chodorow

67. metapatriarchal journey of exorcism and ecstasy / Mary Daly

68. Some reflections on separatism and power / Marilyn Frye

69. Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference / Audre Lorde

70. straight mind / Monique Wittig

71. Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich

72. unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism : towards a more progressive union / Heidi Hartmann

73. Asian Pacific American women and feminism / Mitsuye Yamada

74. Concepts of self and morality / Carol Gilligan

75. Under western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty

1985-1995 : introduction

76. cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway

77. Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale / Paula Gunn Allen

78. From the woman question in science to the science question in feminism / Sandra Harding

79. Jewish memory from a feminist perspective / Judith Plaskow

80. La Conciencia de la Mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldua

81. Cultural feminism versus post-structuralism : the identity crisis in feminist theory / Linda Alcoff

82. Does a sex have a history? / Denise Riley

83. Deconstructing equality-versus-difference; or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott

84. 'risk' of essence / Diana Fuss

85. Feminism : a transformational politic / Bell Hooks

86. ecology of feminism and the feminism of ecology / Ynestra King

87. Sexuality / Catharine MacKinnon

88. theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcon

89. From Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler

90. From Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins

91. Outcast mothers and surrogates : racism and reproductive politics in the nineties / Angela Y. Davis

92. Making gender visible in the pursuit of nature's secrets / Evelyn Fox Keller

93. Beijing declaration and platform for action

94. Mothers of our nations : indigenous women address the world / Winona LaDuke

1995-2003 : introduction

95. Riot grrrl philosophy : revolutions from within / Bikini Kill

96. Intersectionality and identity politics : learning from violence against women of color / Kimberle Crenshaw

97. Contesting cultures : 'westernization,' respect for cultures, and third-world feminists / Uma Narayan

98. Transgender butch : butch/FTM border wars and the masculine continuum / Judith Halberstam

99. Decisions, decisions, decisions / Cynthia Enloe

100. Third wave manifesta / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

101. Global identities : theorizing transnational studies of sexuality / Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan

102. Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

103. Meta(I)morphoses : the becoming machine / Rosi Braidotti.