Short description:

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader introduces readers to key feminist theories and texts through both well-known classic feminist texts and original contemporary research by Feminist Studies scholars. It is an ideal resource for students of Feminist Studies, as well as Gender studies, sociology, and other social science.

Long description:

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader offers a unique approach to teaching and learning feminist thought.

Crafted with the movement and translation of ideas in mind, this book is broken into four sections: Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Ontologies, Feminist Orientations, and Resistance. Each chapter includes two well-known classic texts that commonly appear in Feminist Studies classes as well as two new texts written by scholars who engage, critique, and extend those ideas in their work. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website, which includes discussion questions, assignment ideas, lesson plans, and other materials useful for classroom instruction.

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader is designed for those new to feminism as well as more seasoned feminist thinkers. It is an ideal resource for students in introductory and advanced feminist theory courses, as well as those interested in social scientific and humanistic inquiry more broadly. 

Table of Contents:

Introducing This Volume  Section 1: Feminist Epistemologies and Frameworks: Asking Questions in Feminist Ways Introduction  Part I: Feminist Historiography  I.1 Telling Feminist Stories  I.2 Transgender History  I.3 Feminist Historiography: Constructing the Past in the Present and for the Future  I.4 Calling All Chicana Feminist Theorists, Trans Historians, and Queer Femme Scholars: Abject Epistemologies in Feminist Theory Historiography  Part II: Power  II.1 The History of Sexuality Volume I  II.2 Can the Subaltern Speak?  II.3 ?People with Uteruses?: Uterine Transplantation, In/fertility, and Trans Pregnancy  II.4 Feminists Disrupt Power: Rape and the Heterogeneity of Subjugated Resistance  PART III: Materiality  III.1 Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse  III.2 Animacies  III.3 Materiality, Compulsory Sexuality, and Sexual Desire  III.4 Disruptive Diffusion: Materiality and the Politics of AI-Generated Art  PART IV: Affect  IV.1 Cruel Optimism  IV.2 Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology  IV.3 A Body-Grounded View of China?s Neoliberal Transition  IV.4 Out of Line  PART V: State Institutions  V.1 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty  V.2 Terrorist Assemblages  V.3 A State of Contradictions  V.4 Mak Nyahs and the Subject of Rights: Perversity, Piety, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Malaysia  PART VI: Political Economy  VI.1 Wages Against Housework  VI.2 Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics  VI.3 What?s Love Got to Do With It?  VI.4 When the Office Is Family: Queering Social Reproduction under Startup Capitalism  Section 2: Feminist Ontologies: On Feminist Ways of Being  Introduction  PART VII: Experience  VII.1 The Evidence of Experience  VII.2 Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception  VII.3 press, release, return: Edging Towards the Subject, or Filipinx Feminist Form in Three Parts  VII.4 Experience-as-Expertise: Cis Women Athletes and Anti-Trans Sentiment  PART VIII: Identity  VIII.1 Gender Trouble  VIII.2 Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics  VIII.3 Performative Disruption: The Lesbian Avengers Civil Rights Organizing Project and the Threat of Rural Homophobia  VIII.4 Identity Politics and Queer Theory?s Welfare Genealogies  PART IX: Intersectionality  IX.1 Mapping the Margins  IX.2 Rethinking Intersectionality  IX.3 Sleeping Babies, Technology, and the Construction of Risk  IX.4 Reading at the Nexus of Neglect and Fetishization: The ?Occult? of Intersectionality  PART X: Reproductive Justice  X.1 Reproductive Justice: An Introduction  X.2 The Cancer Journals  X.3 Intersectional Feminism and the Health Humanities  X.4 ?To Claim My Own Body?: Vaginismus as a Reproductive, Feminist, and Disability Justice Issue  Section 3: Feminist Orientations: New Directions in the Field  Introduction  PART XI: Critical Geographies XI.1 Toward a Decolonial Feminism  XI.2 Global Divas  XI.3 Traveling the Topographies of Mexico City?s Lesbian Spaces  XI.4 Mobility, Marginality, and Decoloniality in Feminist Theories of Place  PART XII: Film and Media  XII.1 Witch?s Flight  XII.2 The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminism in an Age of Terror  XII.3 Beautiful Activists: A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Race in Essence Magazine, 1970  XII.4 Boss: Beyoncé?s Rhetorical Performance of Black Womanhood  PART XIII: Feminist Science and Technology Studies  XIII.1 Cyborg Manifesto  XIII.2 Egg and Sperm: A Scientific Fairytale  XIII.3 Feminist and Queer STS  XIII.4 More than Cyborgs: Metaphors for Thinking, Surviving, and Gathering  PART XIV: More-Than-Human Attunements  XIV.1 Mohawk Mothers? Milk  XIV.2 Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals  XIV.3 Transing Difference  XIV.4 A Feminist Study of Breathing  Section 4: Feminist Resistance: Mapping Multiple Futures  Introduction  PART XV: Institutionalization  XV.1 The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference  XV.2 In the Shadow of the Shadow State  XV.3 Holly Near on Tour with the National Women?s Studies Association  XV.4 In the University, But Not of It: The Diversity Industry vs. Queer Epistemologies  PART XVI: Meaning-Making  XVI.1 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza  XVI.2 Against the Romance of Community  XVI.3 Lesbian Feminism and the Challenge of Community  XVI.4 Self-Craft and Coalition: Toward a New Class Consciousness  PART XVII: Revolution  XVII.1 Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First Century  XVII.2 Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex  XVII.3 Mutuality in Mutual Aid: Radical Care, Mask Making, and the Auntie Sewing Squad  XVII.4 From Demands to Action: Using Transformative Justice to address Sexual Violence  PART XVIII: Speculative Futures  XVIII.1 On Racism  XVIII.2 Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black Is the New Black?A 21st Century Manifesto  XVIII.3 The Future-Past Is Disabled  XVIII.4 Speculations Beyond Real Estate