Thinking Gender
The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering
1st Edition
By Patrice DiQuinzio
September 13, 1999
An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and ...
Daring to Be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Bat-Ami Bar On, Ann Ferguson
March 05, 1998
This collection challenges the traditional divide between the investigation of ethics is a private concern and politics as a public, group concern....
Men Doing Feminism
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Digby
December 19, 1997
The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic, so that men are expected to resist feminism, and feminists are assumed to hate men. That pattern of opposition is disrupted, however, by the continually increasing numbers of men who are participating in feminist theory and...
Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father
1st Edition
By Isaac D. Balbus
November 13, 1997
Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during her first four years....
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
1st Edition
By Uma Narayan
July 23, 1997
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these ...
Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories
1st Edition
Edited
By Shane Phelan
January 14, 1997
The last five years have witnessed the birth of a vibrant new group of young scholars who are writing about queer law, politics, and policy--topics which are no longer treated as of interest only to lesbians and gay men, but which now garner the attention of political theorists of all stripes. ...
Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference and Interplay
1st Edition
Edited
By Naomi Zack
January 08, 1997
Race/Sex is the first forum for combined discussion of racial theory and gender theory. In sixteen articles, avant-garde scholars of African American philosophy and liberatory criticism explore and explode the categories of race, sex and gender into new trajectories that include sexuality, black ...
Feminism and Families
1st Edition
Edited
By Hilde Lindemann Nelson
December 17, 1996
A ground-breaking volume of all new essays covering the conjunction of two topics--feminism and families--that, for all their centrality in our culture, have not been adequately examined in light of one another. While the family has suffered feminist neglect, most women are in fact members of ...
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty
November 20, 1996
Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui ...
The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies
1st Edition
By Dion Farquhar
October 09, 1996
With technological advances in reproduction no longer confined to the laboratory or involving only the isolated individual, women and men are increasingly resorting to a variety of technologies unheard of a few decades ago to assist them in becoming parents. The public at large, and feminists as a...
Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity
1st Edition
By Allison Weir
December 12, 1995
Allison Weir sets forth a concept of identity which depends on an acceptance of nonidentity, difference, and connection to others, defined as a capacity to participate in a social world. Weir argues that the equation of identity with repression and domination links "relational feminists" like Nancy...
Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange
1st Edition
By Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Nancy Fraser
December 14, 1994
First published in 1995. This volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the United States. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser discuss some of the key questions facing feminist theory. Each articulates her own position in an initial essay, ...