Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415994772 ISBN 13: 9780415994774

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Feminist Theory Reader, second edition, continues its unique approach of anthologizing the important works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone De Beauvoir, Gloria Anzaldua, Judith Butler, belle hooks, Nancy Hartsock, Deniz Kandiyoti,and Chandra Talpade Mohanty appear alongside cutting-edge scholarship by Paula Moya, Aiwha Ong, Raewyn Connell, Suzanne Walters, Mrinalina Sinha, and Rhacel Parreñas. The new edition significantly updates both the local and global perspectives that distinguished the first edition, incorporating themes and debates on the rise in the contemporary feminist scholarship.

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About the Author

Carole R. McCann is Director and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty member of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research expertise includes, feminist science studies, twentieth century history of birth control, eugenics, and population, and feminist theory. Her publications include: Birth control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (Cornell University Press, 1994, 1999). She is currently working on a book manuscript about masculinities in mid-century population sciences.

Seung-kyung Kim is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty of Department of Anthropology, Department of American Studies, and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland College Park. Her research expertise includes gender, labor, and development politics, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, and women in East Asia and Asian America. Her publications include: "Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea" (Cambridge University Press, 1997). The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is currently working on two book manuscripts: Women’s Movements in Democratic South Korea: The Trajectory of Institutionalization and the Loss of Autonomy which was funded by the Korea Foundation, and Global Citizens in the Making?: Transnational Migration and Education in Kirogi Families, which was funded by the Social Science Research Council.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415994772
• ISBN 13: 9780415994774
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 564
• Editor: McCann Carole, Kim Seung-kyung