Gender struggles : practical approaches to contemporary feminism / edited by Constance L. Mui and Julien S. Murphy

Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., [2002]
Copyright Date: ©2002
Physical Description: vi, 369 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Mui, Constance L., 1959- and Murphy, Julien S., 1956-

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Contents

Introduction / Constance L. Mui and Julien S. Murphy -- Doing without knowing: feminism's politics of the ordinary / Linda M.G. Zerilli -- Toward a feminist theory of freedom / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- After the family wage: a postindustrial thought experiment / Nancy Fraser -- "Not my way, Sesha, your way, slowly": "maternal thinking" in the raising of a child with profound intellectual disabilities / Eva Feder Kittay -- The emergence of the fetus / Kathryn Pyne Addelson -- Outliving oneself: trauma, memory, and personal identity / Susan J. Brison -- Fighting bodies, fighting words: a theory and politics of rape prevention / Sharon Marcus -- Sovereign performatives / Judith Butler -- The harm that has no name: street harassment, embodiment, and African American women / Deirdre E. Davis -- The sexual harasser is a bully, not a sex fiend / Susan Bordo -- Suffering to be beautiful / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Black (w)holes and the geometry of black female sexuality / Evelynn M. Hammonds -- Time, space, and motherhoods / Marsha Marotta -- Rethinking consciousness raising: citizenship and the law and politics of adoption / Drucilla Cornell -- House and home: feminist variations on a theme / Iris Marion Young -- Cyberfeminism with a difference / Rosi Braidotti.

Subject(s)

Feminist theory

ISBN

0742512541 (cloth : alk. paper)
074251255X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

University Park copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20023.

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Paterno Libraries Endowment

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