"What is sexist oppression?" "What should be done about it?"
Organized around these questions, Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader
provides an overview of theoretical feminist writing about the
quest for gender justice. Incorporating both classic and
cutting-edge material, the reader takes into account the full
diversity of women, highlighting the effects of race, ethnicity,
nationality, class, sexuality, and religion on women's experience.
Theorizing Feminisms is organized into four sections and includes
fifty-four essays. The first section introduces several basic
concepts commonly employed when thinking about sexism--oppression,
social construction, essentialism, intersectionality, gender, race,
and class--and also raises questions about the perspective and
legitimacy of the theorist. The second section surveys three
approaches that attempt to characterize in a general way the source
of injustice toward women: humanist feminism ("the sameness
approach"), gynocentric feminism ("the difference approach"), and
dominance feminism. Offering an alternate perspective, the third
section introduces two "localizing" approaches, grounded in
postmodernism and identity politics, respectively. Skeptical of
theories that attempt to analyze social phenomena across history
and culture, authors in this section challenge, rather than answer,
the text's organizing questions. The final section explores the
relationship of feminist theory to three liberatory
projects--postcolonialism, neo-materialism, and queer theory--that
do not characterize themselves as feminist, yet take gender as a
significant category of analysis. Each section opens with an
introduction and each essay is followed by helpful studyquestions.
The majority of the essays are presented in their entirety.
Theorizing Feminisms underscores the strong connection between
feminist theory and practice by including essays that illustrate
important political inspirations or applications of each
theoretical approach. It also presents versions of the same
approach from various points in history, revealing feminist theory
to be dynamic and evolving, rather than static. Ideal for
interdisciplinary courses in feminist theory, this volume will also
serve as an invaluable reference for current and future generations
of theorists.
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