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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| What is Feminist Theory? What is Feminism? | |
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| Reading Feminist Theory | |
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| "Feminism" "Feminist" from The Feminist Dictionary (1985) | |
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| "Womanist" from In Search of Our Mothers Gardens (1983) | |
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| "Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education" (1979) | |
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| "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" (1979) from Sister/Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) | |
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| "Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The, Woman's Voice'" (1983) | |
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| "What is Feminism?" (1986) | |
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| From Maternal Thinking (1985) | |
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| "Theory as Liberatory Practice" from Teaching to Transgress (1994) | |
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| "Contesting Cultures: 'Westernization,' Respect for Cultures, and Third-World Feminists" from Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminisms (1997) | |
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| 1792-1920 | |
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| 1792-1920: Introduction | |
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| "The Changing Woman" (Navajo Origin Myth) | |
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| Chapters 2, 7, and; 13 from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) | |
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| from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (1838) | |
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| "Declaration of Sentiments" from The History of Women's Suffrage (1848) | |
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| "Enfranchisement of Women" (1851) | |
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| "Ain't I a Woman?" (1851) | |
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| "Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring" (1867) | |
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| Chapters 2 and 4 from The Subjection of Women (1870) | |
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| Petition to Parliament against the Contagious Diseases Acts (1871) | |
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| Speech after Arrest for Illegal Voting (1872) | |
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| "The Elixir of Life, or, Why Do We Die?" (1873)" | |
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| "Why I Became a Woman's-Rights Man" from The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1882) | |
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| from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) | |
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| "The States of Woman in America" from A Voice of the South: By a Black Woman of the South (1892) | |
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| "Solitude of Self" (1892) | |
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| Chapter 7 and 14 from Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898) | |
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| "The Progress of Colored Women" (1898) | |
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| "Lynch Law in America" (1900) | |
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| "The Traffic in Women," from Anarchism and Oilier Essays (1910) | |
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| "Girl Slaves of the Milwaukee Breweries" (1910) | |
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| "Working Woman and Mother" (1914) | |
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| "Now We Can Begin" (1919) | |
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| 1920-1963 | |
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| 1920-1963: Introduction | |
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| "Birth Control-A Parent's Problem or Woman's?" from Woman and the New Race (1920) | |
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| "Womanliness as a Masquerade" (1929) | |
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| Chapters 2, 5, and 6 from A Room of One's Own (1929) | |
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| "The Dread of Woman: Observations on a Specific Difference in the Dread Felt by Men and by Women Respectively for the Opposite Sex" (1932) | |
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| "Sex and Temperament" from Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935) | |
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| "Introduction" and Chapter 12 from The Second Sex (1949) | |
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| 1963-1975 | |
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| 1963-1975: Introduction | |
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| "The Problem That Has No Name" from The Feminine Mystique (1963) | |
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| "The System at War with Itself" from Purity and Danger (1966) | |
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| National Organization for Women, "Statement of Purpose" (1966) | |
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| From SCUM Manifesto (1967) | |
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| "Theory of Sexual Politics" from Sexual Politics (1969) | |
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| Redstockings, "Redstockings Manifesto" (1969) | |
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| "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force" (1969) | |
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| "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (1970) | |
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| "The Liberation of Black Women" (1970) | |
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| Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman" (1970) | |
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| Older Women's League, "Why OWL (Older Women's Liberation)?" (1970) | |
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| "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?" (1974) | |
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| "Not for Lesbians Only" (1975) | |
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| "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) | |
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| "Conclusion: Women's Liberation in Muslim Countries" from Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (1975) | |
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| 1975-1985 | |
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| 1975-1985: Introduction | |
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| "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex" (1975) | |
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| "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) | |
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| "Chicana Feminism" (1976) | |
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| "What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity" (1976) | |
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| "A Black Feminist Statement" (1977) | |
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| "This Sex Which Is Not One" (1977) | |
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| "The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life" from The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978) | |
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| "The Metapatriarchal Journey of Exorcism and Ecstasy" from GynEcology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978) | |
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| "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" (1984) | |
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| "The Straight Mind" (1978) | |
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| "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980) | |
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| "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union" (1981) | |
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| "Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism" (1981) | |
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| "Foreword" from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) | |
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| "Images of Relationship" from In a Different Voice (1982) | |
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| "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" (1984) | |
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| "Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality" (1984) | |
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| 1985-1995 | |
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| 1985-1995: Introduction | |
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| "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1985) | |
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| "The Woman Question in Science to the Science Question in Feminism" (1986) | |
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| "Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective" (1986) | |
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| "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" (1987) | |
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| "Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory" (1988) | |
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| "Does a Sex Have a History?" from "Am I That Name?" Feminism and the Category of "Woman" in History (1988) | |
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| "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism" (1988) | |
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| "Development, Ecology and-Women" (1989) | |
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| "The Ecology of Feminism and the Feminism of Ecology" (1989) | |
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| "Sexuality" from Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989) | |
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| "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism" (1990) | |
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| From Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) | |
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| From Black Feminist Thought (1990) | |
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| From The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) | |
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| "Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties" (1991) | |
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| "Becoming the Third Wave" (1992) | |
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| "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" from Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1994) | |
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| "Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action" (1995) | |
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| "Mothers of Our Nations: Indigenous Women Address the World" (1995) | |
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| 1995-2012 | |
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| 1995-2012: Introduction | |
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| "Riot Grrrl Philosophy" (1995) | |
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| "Femmenism" (1995) | |
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| "Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Learning from Violence against Women of Color" (1997) | |
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| Halberstam, "An Introduction to Female Masculinity" from Female Masculinity (1998) | |
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| "When Soldiers Rape" from Maneuvers: the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2000) | |
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| "Should There Be Only Two Sexes?" from Sexing the Body (2000) | |
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| "Third Wave Manifesta" from Manifesta (2000) | |
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| "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" (2001) | |
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| "Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy" from Undoing Gender (2004) | |
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| "The Subject of Freedom" from The Politics of Piety (2005) | |
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| "Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change" (2005) | |
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| "Trans woman Manifesto" (2007) | |
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| "When Species Meet: Introductions" from When Species Meet (2008) | |
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| "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History" (2009) | |
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| "Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis" (2010) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |