Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global PerspectivesCarole Ruth McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim Psychology Press, 2003 - 509 pages Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives. |
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... cultural norms and opportunities " ( Butler 1990 : 331 ) . Yet much useful knowledge is gener- ated through ongoing debates about what feminism is and can be ; about how to do feminist theory ; about which theories adequately explain ...
... cultural norms and opportunities " ( Butler 1990 : 331 ) . Yet much useful knowledge is gener- ated through ongoing debates about what feminism is and can be ; about how to do feminist theory ; about which theories adequately explain ...
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... cultural practices , and inscribed in social institu- tions . Oakley's dual sense of gender is typical of much feminist theorizing in the North at the time . Sometimes gender refers to characteristics of individuals , the meanings of ...
... cultural practices , and inscribed in social institu- tions . Oakley's dual sense of gender is typical of much feminist theorizing in the North at the time . Sometimes gender refers to characteristics of individuals , the meanings of ...
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... cultures in the South produced by anthropologists from the North . This is one early example of the rhetorical prac- tice among feminist theorists in the North of appropriating examples of different cultural practices in the South to ...
... cultures in the South produced by anthropologists from the North . This is one early example of the rhetorical prac- tice among feminist theorists in the North of appropriating examples of different cultural practices in the South to ...
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... cultures give to the sex of their bodies as distinct from that of men . Thus a shared experience of oppression is ... cultural wisdom about " women's nature . " Feminist scholars have observed that much of what passes for knowledge of ...
... cultures give to the sex of their bodies as distinct from that of men . Thus a shared experience of oppression is ... cultural wisdom about " women's nature . " Feminist scholars have observed that much of what passes for knowledge of ...
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... cultural beliefs shape women's subordination . In this way , women's gender - based differences from men constitute grounds upon which feminist claims of women's political agency rest . Those differ- ences , feminists such as de ...
... cultural beliefs shape women's subordination . In this way , women's gender - based differences from men constitute grounds upon which feminist claims of women's political agency rest . Those differ- ences , feminists such as de ...
Contents
VI | 26 |
VII | 32 |
VIII | 41 |
IX | 45 |
X | 50 |
XI | 57 |
XIV | 68 |
XV | 79 |
XLIII | 242 |
XLIV | 249 |
XLV | 255 |
XLVI | 260 |
XLVII | 267 |
XLVIII | 277 |
XLIX | 278 |
L | 291 |
XVI | 80 |
XVII | 83 |
XVIII | 88 |
XIX | 103 |
XX | 113 |
XXI | 126 |
XXIII | 138 |
XXIV | 147 |
XXV | 148 |
XXVI | 163 |
XXVII | 164 |
XXVIII | 172 |
XXX | 174 |
XXXIII | 179 |
XXXIV | 188 |
XXXV | 197 |
XXXVI | 205 |
XXXVII | 206 |
XXXIX | 222 |
XL | 231 |
XLII | 241 |
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