ABSTRACT

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion based on race, class, and sexuality. Lykke confronts and contrasts classical stances in feminist epistemology with poststructuralist and postconstructionist feminisms, and also brings bodily materiality into dialogue with theories of the performativity of gender and sex. This thorough and needed analysis of the state of Feminist Studies will be a welcome addition to scholars and students in Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology.

part |2 pages

Part I: What Is Feminist Studies?

chapter 1|11 pages

A Guide’s Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

A Postdisciplinary Discipline

chapter 3|16 pages

Undoing Proper Research Objects

part |2 pages

Part II: To Theorize Intersectional Gender/Sex

part |2 pages

Part III: To Re-Tool the Thinking Technologies

chapter 8|19 pages

Rethinking Epistemologies

chapter 9|19 pages

Methodologies, Methods and Ethics

part |2 pages

Part IV: To Use a Feminist Hermeneutics