Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367430800 ISBN 13: 9780367430801

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

The fifth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader assembles readings that present key aspects of the conversations within intersectional US and transnational feminisms and continues to challenge readers to rethink the ways in which gender and its multiple intersections are configured by complex, overlapping, and asymmetrical global–local configurations of power.

The feminist theoretical debates in this anthology are anchored by five foundational concepts―gender, difference, women’s experiences, the personal is political, and especially intersectionality―which are integral to contemporary feminist critiques. The anthology continues to center the voices of transnational feminist scholars with new essays giving it a sharper focus on the materiality of gender injustices, racisms, ableisms, colonialisms, and especially global capitalisms. Theoretical discussions of translation politics, cross-border solidarity building, ecofeminism, reproductive justice, #MeToo, indigenous feminisms, and disability studies have been incorporated throughout the volume.

With the new essays and the addition of a new editor, the Feminist Theory Reader has been brought fully up to date and will continue to be a touchstone for women’s and gender studies students, as well as academics in the field, for many years to come.

About this title

About the Author

Carole R. McCann is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author most recently of Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century.

Seung-kyung Kim is Korea Foundation Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director of the Institute for Korean Studies in the School of Global and International Studies; and Affiliate Faculty of the Gender Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington.

Emek Ergun is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is also the co-editor of Feminist Translation Studies (Routledge, 2017). She is an activist feminist translator and her most recent translation is of Octavia Butler’s Kindred, published in Turkey in 2019.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367430800
• ISBN 13: 9780367430801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 532
• Editor: McCann Carole