Doing Feminist Theory: From Modernity to Postmodernity

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-985810-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

An historical approach that interweaves the history of feminist thought with the history of the U.S women's movement and illuminates paradigm shifts in feminist thought toward an increasing focus on difference, deconstruction and decentering in postmodernity.
Text is written in clear and accessible style even when it covered complex or difficult subject matter.
A comprehensive focus on the multiplicity and diversity of feminist approaches by race, gender, class, sexuality and global location.
A wide-array of ecofeminist approaches are threaded throughout the text to illustrate the application of feminist theories to concrete social problems.
A critical and dynamic approach to theory that is interdisciplinary and inclusive of alternative forms of theory construction that extend beyond the academy, such as poetry, music and zines.
This text not only emphasizes the multiplicity and diversity of feminist approaches, but does so historically by examining this diversity through the first, second and third waves of U.S. feminism.

Doing Feminist Theory critically examines feminist thought from the late 18th century to the present. Organized historically and by theoretical perspectives, it highlights the relationship between feminist theory and practice, as well as the diversity of feminist visions and voices by race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and global location. The history of feminist thought is interwoven with the history of the U.S. women's movement to ground theory in ist socio-historical context and to illuminate paradigm shifts toward an increasing focus on difference, deconstruction and decentering in postmodernity. Links between the local and global are emphasized in theory application sections devoted to global and environmental issues. Oriented toward upper-level undergraduate students and master's-level graduate students, the distinguishing features of this text include:
- a critical approach that highlights how theories can empower or silence
- a diversity approach that focuses on the multiplicity of feminist voices by race, class,
- an historical approach that grounds feminist theories in the social, economic, and
- a dynamic approach that highlights paradigm shifts in feminist thought from
- an interdisciplinary approach that interweaves the social sciences and the
- a praxis-oriented approach with theory applications devoted to global and

Zielgruppe

Upper-level undergraduate students and master's-level graduate students, as well as feminist teachers, scholars and activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mann, Susan Archer

Mann, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Using this Text to Navigate Feminist Thought

Chapter 1: Doing Feminist Theory
Introduction
Deconstructing the "F-word": What is Feminism?

Boxed Inserts
Box 1.1 What is Feminism?

Box 1.3 The Unforgiveable Transgression of Being Caster Semenya
Box 1.4 Poetry is Not a Luxury

SECTION I: MODERN FEMINIST THOUGHT

Chapter 2: Liberal Feminisms
Introduction

Box 2.1 The Adams' Letters

Box 2.2 The Municipal Housekeeping Movement

Chapter 3: Radical Feminisms
Introduction

Box 3.2 "Redstockings Manifesto"

Chapter 4: Marxist, Socialist & Anarchist Feminisms

Introduction
Marxist, Socialist & Anarchist Feminisms in Early Modernity

Women's Work in the Home

Love, Marriage & Sexual Practices
Precursors to Ecofeminism in Early Modernity

Existential Socialist Feminism

Women's Work in Late Modernity

New Directions in Feminist Thought Inspired by the Old & New Left
Queer Anti-Capitalism

Socialist Feminist Standpoint Approaches

Boxed Inserts:

Box 4.2 Lenin on "Sex-Love"
Box 4.3 A Comparison of Family-Friendly Policies in the U.S. & Scandinavia
Box 4.4. "To My White Working-Class Sisters"

Chapter 5: Intersectionality Theories

Introduction

Precursors to Intersectional Analyses in Early Modernity

SECTION II: FEMINIST THOUGHT AFTER TAKING THE POSTMODERN TURN

Chapter 6: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Queer & Transgender Theories
Introduction
Historically Grounding Postmodernism & Poststructuralism
Major Assumptions of Feminist Postmodernisms & Poststructuralisms

Epistemological Assumptions

Queer Ecofeminisms

Chapter 7: Third Wave Feminisms
Introduction

Conclusion: The "Unhappy Marriage" of the Modern & Postmodern

SECTION III: THEORY APPLICATIONS
Bridging the Local & the Global: Feminist Discourses on Colonialism, Imperialism & Globalization

Introduction
Conceptualizing Imperialism & Colonialism

Chapter 8: Feminism & Imperialism in Early Modernity
Introduction

Rosa Luxemburg on Imperialism

Boxed Inserts

Chapter 9: Feminism & Imperialism in Late Modernity
Introduction

Modernization Theory & Dependency Theory

Socialist Feminist World-Systems Theories

Radical Feminist Global Analyses

Global Feminist Analyses Inspired by Luxemburg's Work

Chapter 10: Feminism & Imperialism in Postmodernity
Introduction
Postcolonial & Transnational Feminisms

Can the Subaltern Speak?

The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

Boxed Inserts

CONCLUSION: Paradigm Shifts in Feminist Thought
Introduction

GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES
CREDITS/PERMISSIONS
NAME INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Mann, Susan
Susan Archer Mann is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. She received her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1982. Her areas of specialization are sociological theory and feminist theory. She was awarded her university's highest award for excellence in teaching, as well as the Spark Award for her scholarly and professional contributions at the Race, Gender and Class 4th annual conference. She was a founder and the first Director of the UNO Women and Gender Studies program and a former Chair of the Race, Gender and Class Section of the American Sociological Association. Currently she is working on an anthology to accompany Doing Feminist Theory: Paradigm Shifts from Modernity to Postmodernity for Oxford University Press.

Dr. Susan Mann, Professor, University of New Orleans, USA

Susan Archer Mann is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. She received her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1982. Her areas of specialization are sociological theory and feminist theory. She was awarded her university's highest award for excellence in teaching, as well as the Spark Award for her scholarly and professional contributions at the Race, Gender and Class 4th annual conference. She was a founder and the first Director of the UNO Women and Gender Studies program and a former Chair of the Race, Gender and Class Section of the American Sociological Association. Currently she is working on an anthology to accompany Doing Feminist Theory: Paradigm Shifts from Modernity to Postmodernity for Oxford University Press.

Contributors:
Jane Ward is associate professor of Women's Studies at the University of California Riverside. She is the author of Respectably Queer (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008), as well as several articles on queer politics, transgender relationships, the social construction of heterosexuality, the failure of diversity programs, and, most recently, queer motherhood. She teaches courses in feminist and queer studies.