The last forty years have seen a remarkable and sustained exploration of questions surrounding about gender and gender relations. Departments of women′s studies, feminist studies, gender studies exist throughout the global north with considerable overlap between their curriculum but all exploring, in different ways, the difference that feminist politics, a politics of the public space, have made.At its heart, this major work examines the central idea that feminism, as a politics of the public space, is an essential aspect of democratic society. The four volumes are organised to reflect and emphasise the repetition of themes within feminism and the cross-over between locations (whether geographical or intellectual) where feminism is discussed. Volume One: The Imagination Feminism Volume Two: Making Feminism Volume Three: Locations of Feminism Volume Four: Feminist Futures
Mary Evans is Professor of Gender at London School of Economics.
VOLUME ONE: THE IMAGINATION OF FEMINISMExtract from The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de PizanA Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest - Mary AstellMary Wollstonecraft and the Paradoxes of Feminism - Barbara TaylorThe Tragedy of Women′s Emancipation - Emma GoldmanWhy We Are Militant - Emmeline PankhurstExtract from Women: The Longest Revolution - Juliet MitchellThe Ultimate Revolution - Shulamith FirestoneThe Power of the Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine - Luce IrigarayI Am Your Sister: Black Women Organising across Sexualities - Audre LordeRe-thinking Sex and Gender - Christine DelphyAlexandra Kollantai and Marxist Feminism - Jinee LokaneetaTelling Feminist Stories - Clare HemmingsFeminism and Enlightenment Legacies - Kate SoperThe Trade in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex - Gayle RubinReview of White Lives: The Interplay of ‘Race’, Class and Gender in Everyday Life by Bridget Byrne - Vron WareFeminism’s History - Joan Wallach ScottThe Distractions of the Modern - John JervisVOLUME TWO: MAKING FEMINISMDemarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-Discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics - Kimberle CrenshawContingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” - Judith ButlerDoes Feminism Need a Conception of Civil Society? - Anne PhillipsDo Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod‘Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties’: Women, Higher Education and Gender Conservatism in Late Victorian Britain - Julia BushThe Gendered Order of Caring - Kathryn Lynch and Maureen LyonsWeaving Relational Webs: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Embodied Practice - Carolyn PedwellFeminism, Gender and Social Policy - Afiya S. Zia‘Re-booting’ Is Not an Option: Toward Equitable Social and Economic Development - Stephanie SeguinoA Willfulness Archive - Sara AhmedAgency and Oppression: Two Views - Sumi MadhokIntersectional and Cross Movement Politics and Policies: Reflections on Current Practices and Debates - Mieke VerlooThe 1964 Civil Rights Act and the “Sex” Amendment - Dorothy Sue CobbleChristabel Pankhurst and the Smethwick Election: Right Wing Feminism, the Great War and the Ideology of Consumption - Nicoletta GullaceVOLUME THREE: LOCATIONS OF FEMINISMRacism and Feminism: The Issue of Accountability - Bell HooksUnder Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra MohantyThe Exile, the Nomad and the Migrant: Reflections on International Feminism - Rosi BraidottiFeminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions - Lila Abu-LughodWhat Will the Women Want Next?’ The Struggle for Power within the Family, 1925–1975 - Stephen CretneyI’m a Feminist but…“Other” Women and Postnational Feminism - Ien AngTransnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice - Johanna BrennerBetween Particularism, Universalism and Transversalism: Reflections on the Politics of Location of European Feminist Research and Education - Nina LykkeScattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular & Response - Gayatri SpivakAuthor(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women’s Involvement in Religious ‘Fundamentalist’ Movements - Sarah BrackeGlobalisation and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global Arena - Myra Marx FerreeHeterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System - María LugonesPostcolonial Subjectivity: Masculinity, Shame, and Memory - Amal TreacherWho Defines ‘Mutilation’? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting - Courtney SmithVOLUME FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURESExtract from Three Guineas - Virginia WoolfBeyond the Politics of Location: The Power of Argument in a Global Era - Sylvia WalbyHistories of a Feminist Future - Elizabeth GroszA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century - Donna HarawayFeminist Theory, Embodiment and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival - Saba MahmoodOn Being in Time with Feminism - Robyn WiegmanTrans as Bodily Becoming: Rethinking the Biological as Diversity, Not Dichotomy - Riki LaneEcofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism - Greta GaardRethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-Secular Age - Niamh Reilly‘Race’, Gender and Neoliberalism: Changing Visual Representations in Development - Kalpana WilsonConclusion from End of Equality - Beatrix CampbellRethinking Gender from the South - Raewyn ConnellTexturing Visibility: Opaque Femininities and Feminist Modernist Studies - Ilya Parkins