ABSTRACT
The fifth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader assembles readings that present key aspects of the conversations within intersectional US and transnational feminisms and continues to challenge readers to rethink the ways in which gender and its multiple intersections are configured by complex, overlapping, and asymmetrical global–local configurations of power.
The feminist theoretical debates in this anthology are anchored by five foundational concepts—gender, difference, women’s experiences, the personal is political, and especially intersectionality—which are integral to contemporary feminist critiques. The anthology continues to center the voices of transnational feminist scholars with new essays giving it a sharper focus on the materiality of gender injustices, racisms, ableisms, colonialisms, and especially global capitalisms. Theoretical discussions of translation politics, cross-border solidarity building, ecofeminism, reproductive justice, #MeToo, indigenous feminisms, and disability studies have been incorporated throughout the volume.
With the new essays and the addition of a new editor, the Feminist Theory Reader has been brought fully up to date and will continue to be a touchstone for women’s and gender studies students, as well as academics in the field, for many years to come.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|18 pages
Theorizing Feminist Times and Spaces
part 1|41 pages
Mid-twentieth Century Foundations
chapter 4|7 pages
Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global
part 2|28 pages
Moving Beyond Binaries and Borders
section Section II|14 pages
Theorizing Intersectionality and Difference
part 1|23 pages
Intersectionality
chapter 16|7 pages
From Patriarchy to Intersectionality
part 2|70 pages
Configurations of Difference
chapter 18|7 pages
Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy
chapter 21|12 pages
Decolonizing Feminism
part 3|52 pages
Boundaries and Belongings
chapter 28|8 pages
Well Founded Fear
section Section III|14 pages
Theorizing Feminist Knowledge and Agency
part 1|64 pages
Standpoints and Situated Knowledges
chapter 35|12 pages
“Under Western Eyes” Revisited
chapter 36|8 pages
Situated Knowledges
part 2|31 pages
Subject Formation and Performativity
chapter 42|9 pages
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
part 3|35 pages
Embodied and Affective Knowledge
section Section IV|8 pages
Imagine Otherwise/Solidarity Reconsidered
part |37 pages
Part 1: Imagine Otherwise
chapter 47|11 pages
“I Would Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess”
chapter 48|11 pages
Undoing Theory
chapter 49|7 pages
“I’m a Citizen of the Universe”
part |36 pages
Part 2: Solidarity Reconsidered