Introduction

1. Academies

Introduction

MARY EVANS

1. In Praise of Theory: The Case for Women's Studies

BELL HOOKS

2. Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression

TERESA DE LAURETIS

3. Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema

CORA KAPLAN

4. Speaking/Writing/Feminism

JANE TOMPKINS

5. Me and My Shadow

GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

6. French Feminism in an International Frame

HELENA MICHIE

7. Not One of the Family: The Repression of the Other Woman in Feminist Theory

ELAINE SHOWALTER

8. A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory

BARBARA CHRISTIAN

9. The Race for Theory

ALICE JARDINE

10. Notes for an Analysis

BARBARA SMITH

11. The Truth that Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s

CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY

12. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

ANNE PHILLIPS

13. Paradoxes of Participation

NANCY MILLER

14. Feminist Confessions: The Last Degrees are the Hardest

SUSANNAH RADSTONE

15. Postcard from the Edge: Thoughts on the `Feminist Theory: An International Debate' Conference held at Glasgow University, Scotland, 12-15 July 1991

JANE GALLOP

16. Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory

MICHELE BARRETT

17. Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis

NAOMI SCHEMAN

18. Changing the Subject

ELSPETH PROBYN

19. Materializing Locations: Images and Selves

ANNA YEATMAN

20. The Place of Women's Studies in the Contemporary University

2. Epistemologies

Introduction

CAROL GILLIGAN

21. In a Different Voice

NANCY HARTSOCK

22. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

SANDRA HARDING

23. Is there a Feminist Method?

JANE FLAX

24. Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory

ELIZABETH WRIGHT

25. Thoroughly Postmodern Feminist Criticism

NANCY CHODOROW

26. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory

ALISON JAGGAR

27. Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology

IRIS YOUNG

28. The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public

PATRICIA HILL COLLINS

29. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology

PATRICIA WAUGH

30. Modernism, Postmodernism, Gender: The View from Feminism

SEYLA BENHABIB

31. The Generalized and the Concrete Other

3. Subjectivities

Introduction

MONIQUE WITTIG

32. One is not Born a Woman

BELL HOOKS

33. Black Women and Feminism

JULIA KRISTEVA

34. Psychoanalysis and the Polis

HELENE CIXOUS

35. Sorties

ELIZABETH SPELMAN

36. Woman: The One and the Many

SNEJA GUNEW

37. Authenticity and the Writing Cure: Reading Some Migrant Women's Writing

DENISE RILEY

38. Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of `Women' in History

TORIL MOI

39. Feminist, Female, Feminine

DIANA FUSS

40. The `Risk' of Essence

RACHEL BOWLBY

41. Still Crazy After All These Years

MORAG SHIACH

42. Their `symbolic' exists, it holds power--we, the sowers of disorder, know it only too well

LIZ STANLEY

43. Recovering Women in History from Feminist Deconstructionism

JUDITH BUTLER

44. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire

KATE SOPER

45. Feminism, Humanism, Postmodernism

KADIATU KANNEH

46. Love, Mourning and Metaphor: Terms of Identity

ELIZABETH GROSZ

47. Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary Body

LUCE IRIGARAY

48. The Other: Woman

4. Sexualities

Introduction

ADRIENNE RICH

49. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

ANDREA DWORKIN

50. Pornography

CAROLE VANCE

51. Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality

ALISON LIGHT

52. `Returning to Manderley'--Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class

EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK

53. Sexual Politics and Sexual Meaning

LIZ KELLY

54. A Central Issue: Sexual Violence and Feminist Theory

CATHARINE MACKINNON

55. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

ROSALIND COWARD

56. Slim and Sexy: Modern Woman's Holy Grail

CHERRY SMYTH

57. Queer Notions

MARY MCINTOSII

58. Queer Theory and the War of the Sexes

ELIZABETH WILSON

59. Is Transgression Transgressive?

LYNNE SEGAL

60. Sexual Liberation and Feminist Politics

PAULA TREICHLER

61. AIDS, Identity, and the Politics of Gender

WENDY BROWN

62. The Mirror of Pornography

SUSAN STURGIS

63. Bisexual Feminism: Challenging the Splits

5. Visualities

Introduction

JACQUELINE ROSE

64. Sexuality in the Field of Vision

KAJA SILVERMANN

65. The Acoustic Mirror

ANNETTE KUHN

66. The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism

E. ANN KAPLAN

67. Whose Imaginary: The Televisual Apparatus, the Female Body and Textual Strategies in Select Rock Videos on MTV

RITA FELSKI

68. The Dialectic of `Feminism' and `Aesthetics'

GRISELDA POLLOCK

69. Missing Women: Rethinking Early Thoughts on Images of Women

ABIGAIL SOLOMON GODEAU

70. Just Like a Woman

LYNDA NEAD

71. Getting Down to Basics: Art, Obscenity and the Female Nude

PEGGY PHELAN

72. Broken Symmetries: Memory, Sight, Love

SUSAN BORDO

73. Normalisation and Resistance in the Era of the Image

KATE CHEDGZOY

74. Frida Kahlo's `Grotesque Bodies'

6. Technologies

Introduction

CAROLYN MERCHANT

75. Women and Ecology

DONNA HARAWAY

76. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

MICHELLE STANWORTH

77. Reproductive Technologies: Tampering with Nature?

SARAH FRANKLIN

78. Fetal Fascinations: New Dimensions to the Medical-Scientific Construction of Fetal Personhood

CONSTANCE PENLEY

79. Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology

MARILYN STRATHERN

80. Less Nature, More Technology

MARIA MIES

VANDANA SHIVA

81. Ecofeminism

SADIE PLANT

82. Beyond the Screens: Film, Cyberpunk and Cyberfeminism

CAROL STABILE

83. Feminism and the Technological Fix

CYNTHIA COCKBURN

RUZA FURST-DILIC

84. Looking for the Gender/Technology Relation

SHERRY TURKLE

85. Tinysex and Gender Trouble

ROSI BRAIDOTTI

86. Cyberfeminism with a Difference

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