At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.
The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering:
- Epistemology and marginality
- Literary, visual and cultural representations
- Sexuality
- Macro and microeconomics of gender
- Conflict and peace.
With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism
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It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.
Table of Content
Introduction – Mary Evans
PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY
Introduction – Sumi Madhok & Mary Evans
Feminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality – Lorraine Code
Natural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge – Astrida Neimanis
Feminist Auto/Biography – Gayle Letherby
Power in Feminist Research Processes – Sabine Grenz
Women’s ‘Lived Experience’: Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Present – Sonia Kruks
What Do Women Want? Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalysis – Kirsten Campbell
Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity – Sian Hawthorne
Religion, Feminist Theory and Epistemology – Mary Evans
PART TWO: LITERARY, VISUAL AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION
Introduction – Sadie Wearing
What Stories Make Worlds, What Worlds Make Stories: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake – Samantha Mc Bean
On Maternal Listening: Experiments in Sound and the Mother- Daughter Relation in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce – Amber Jacobs
The Space of a Movement: Life-Writing Against Racism – Vron Ware
Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory – Anna Reading
Feminism and Pornography – Karen Boyle
Representing Women in Popular Culture – Imelda Whelehan
‘It′s all about shopping’: The Role of Consumption in the Feminization of Journalism – Hatty Oliver
PART THREE: SEXUALITY
Introduction – Clare Hemmings
(It’s not all) Kylie concerts, exotic cocktails and gossip: The Appearance of Sexuality through ′Gay′ Asylum in the UK – Emma Spruce
Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality – Gilbert Caluya, Jennifer Germon & Elspeth Probyn
Thinking Sex Materially: Marxist, Socialist, and Related Feminist Approaches – Rosemary Hennessy
Transnational Black Feminisms, Womanisms and Queer of Color Critiques – Michelle Wright
States of Sexuality: Theorizing Sexuality, Gender and Governance – Jyoti Puri
The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: Gender, Rights and Representation – Rutvica Andrijasevic
Sexuality, Subjectivity and… Political Economy? – Clare Hemmings
PART FOUR: ECONOMY – Ania Plomien
Homo Oeconomicus and ′His′ Impact on Gendered Societies – Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
Integrating Gender in Economic Analysis – Maria S. Floro
Essentially Quantified? Towards a More Feminist Modeling Strategy – Wendy Sigle-Rushton
Feminist Perspectives on Care: Theory, Practice and Policy – Susan Himmelweit & Ania Plomien
Power, Privilege and Precarity: the Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Inequality – Robin Dunford & Diane Perrons
Macroeconomic Governance in the European Union: Reconfiguration of Power Structures and Erosion of Gender Equality – Elisabeth Klatzer & Christa Schlager
Gender, Class and Location in the Global Economy – Drucilla Barker & Edith Kuiper
Social Protection – Corina Rodriguez-Enriquez
PART FIVE: WAR, VIOLENCE AND MILITARISATION – Marsha Henry
Female Combatants, Feminism and ′Just′ War – Laura Sjoberg
Soldiering on: Pushing Militarized Masculinities into New Territory – Jane L. Parpart & Kevin Partridge
Gender, Genocide, and Gendercide – Adam Jones
Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings – Maria Eriksson Baaz & Maria Stern
(En) Gendered Terror: Feminist Approaches to Political Violence – Swati Parashar
About the author
Dr Sadie Wearing is Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at London School of Economics.
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