Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory.
Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction Feminist Theory: Transforming the Known World
Mary Hawkesworth and Lisa Disch
Chapter 1 Affect
Marianne Liljeström
Chapter 2 Agency
Lois McNay
Chapter 3 Biopolitics
Ruth A. Miller
Chapter 4 Civilization
Ann Towns
Chapter 5 Coloniality of Gender and Power: From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality
Breny Mendoza
Chapter 6 Cyborgs and Virtual Bodies
Krista Geneviève Lynes and Katerina Symes
Chapter 7 Development
Elora Halim Chowdhury
Chapter 8 Diaspora
Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur
Chapter 9 Formal, Informal and Care Economies
Suzanne Bergeron
Chapter 10 Embodiment
Shatema Threadcraft
Chapter 11 Experience
Judith Grant
Chapter 12 Feminist Jurisprudence
Juliet Williams
Chapter 13 Feminist Standpoint
Kristen Intemann
Chapter 14 Gendered Divisions of Labor
Mary Beth Mills
Chapter 15 Governance
Ki-young Shin
Chapter 16 Health
Amanda J. Grigg and Anna Kirkland
Chapter 17 Identities
Nadine Ehlers
Chapter 18 Institutions
Celeste Montoya
Chapter 19 Intersectionality
Brittney Cooper
Chapter 20 Intersexuality, Transgender and Transsexuality
Talia Mae Bettcher
Chapter 21 Markets/Marketization
Marianne H. Marchand and Rocío del Carmen Osorno Velázquez
Chapter 22 Materialisms
Elizabeth Wingrove
Chapter 23 Microphysics of Power
Johanna Oksala
Chapter 24 Migration
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Carolyn Choi
Chapter 25 Militarization and War
Kathy Ferguson and Sharain Sasheir Naylor
Chapter 26 Nature
Stacy Alaimo
Chapter 27 Norms and Normalization
Dean Spade and Craig Willse
Chapter 28 Performativity and Performance
Moya Lloyd
Chapter 29 The Personal is Political
Renee Heberle
Chapter 30 Policy
Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier
Chapter 31 Politics
Linda Zerilli
Chapter 32 Pop Culture/Visual Culture
Rebecca Wanzo
Chapter 33 Pregnancy, Personhood and the Making of the Fetus
Silja Samerski
Chapter 34 Prison
Sarah X Pemberton
Chapter 35 Race and Racialization
Zenzele Isoke
Chapter 36 Religion
Lisbeth Mikaelsson
Chapter 37 Representation
Lisa Disch
Chapter 38 Science Studies
Deboleena Roy
Chapter 39 Sex/Gender
Mara Viveros Vigoya
Chapter 40 Sexual Difference
Alison Stone
Chapter 41 Sexualities
Leila J. Rupp and Carly Thomsen
Chapter 42 State/Nation
Johanna Kantola
Chapter 43 Storytelling/Narrative
Shari Stone-Mediatore
Chapter 44 Subjectivity and Subjectivation
Anna Marie Smith
Chapter 45 Temporality
Bonnie Smith
Chapter 46 The Politics of Reproduction: From Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
Carole H. Browner
Chapter 47 The Posthuman in Feminist Theory
Rosi Braidotti
Chapter 48 Transnational
Laura Briggs
Chapter 49 Violence
Jinee Lokaneeta
Index
