The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides an overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts feminist theorists have developed to challenge established knowledge. Leading feminist theorists, from around the globe, provide in-depth explorations of a diverse array of subject areas, capturing a plurality of approaches. The Handbook raises new questions, brings new evidence, and poses significant challenges across the spectrum of academic disciplines, demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory. The chapters offer innovative analyses of the central topics in social and political science (e.g. civilization, development, divisions of labor, economies, institutions, markets, migration, militarization, prisons, policy, politics, representation, the state/nation, the transnational, violence); cultural studies and the humanities (e.g. affect, agency, experience, identity, intersectionality, jurisprudence, narrative, performativity, popular culture, posthumanism, religion, representation, standpoint, temporality, visual culture); and discourses in medicine and science (e.g. cyborgs, health, intersexuality, nature, pregnancy, reproduction, science studies, sex/gender, sexuality, transsexuality) and contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization (e.g. biopolitics, coloniality, diaspora, the microphysics of power, norms/normalization, postcoloniality, race/racialization, subjectivity/subjectivation). The Handbook identifies the limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women’s and men’s lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.

Keywords: feminist theory, gender, intersectionality, performativity, politics of difference, race, racialization, sex, sexuality, women

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Feb 2016

ISBN:: 9780199328581

Published online:: Jan 2015

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.001.0001

Editors

Lisa Disch, editor
Lisa Disch is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Michigan.

Mary Hawkesworth, editor
Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University.

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Front Matter
- The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
- List of Contributors
Feminist Theory: Transforming the Known WorldMary Hawkesworth and Lisa Disch
AffectMarianne Liljeström
AgencyLois McNay
BiopoliticsRuth A. Miller
CivilizationAnn Towns
Coloniality of Gender and Power: From Postcoloniality to DecolonialityBreny Mendoza
Cyborgs and Virtual BodiesKrista Geneviève Lynes and Katerina Symes
DevelopmentElora Halim Chowdhury
DiasporaAnita Mannur and Jana Evans Braziel
Formal, Informal, and Care EconomiesSuzanne Bergeron
EmbodimentShatema Threadcraft
ExperienceJudith Grant
Feminist JurisprudenceJuliet A. Williams
Feminist StandpointKristen Intemann
Gendered Divisions of LaborMary Beth Mills
GovernanceKi-young Shin
HealthAmanda J. Grigg and Anna Kirkland
IdentitiesNadine Ehlers
InstitutionsCeleste Montoya
IntersectionalityBrittney Cooper
Intersexuality, Transgender, and Transsexuality Talia Mae Bettcher
Markets/MarketizationMarianne H. Marchand and RocÍo del Carmen Osorno Velázquez
MaterialismsElizabeth Wingrove
Microphysics of PowerJohanna Oksala
MigrationRhacel Salazar Parreñas and Carolyn Choi
Militarization and WarKathy E. Ferguson and Sharain Sasheir Naylor
NatureStacy Alaimo
Norms and NormalizationDean Spade and Craig Willse
Performativity and PerformanceMoya Lloyd
The Personal Is PoliticalRenee Heberle
PolicyEmanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier
PoliticsLinda M. G. Zerilli
Pop Culture/Visual CultureRebecca Wanzo
Posthuman Feminist TheoryRosi Braidotti
Pregnancy, Personhood, and the Making of the FetusSilja Samerski
PrisonSarah X Pemberton
Race and RacializationZenzele Isoke
ReligionLisbeth Mikaelsson
RepresentationLisa Disch
Reproduction: From Rights to Justice?Carole H. Browner
Science StudiesDeboleena Roy
Sex/GenderMara Viveros Vigoya
Sexual DifferenceAlison Stone
SexualitiesLeila J. Rupp and Carly Thomsen
State/NationJohanna Kantola
Storytelling/NarrativeShari Stone-Mediatore
Subjectivity and SubjectivationAnna Marie Smith
TemporalityBonnie G. Smith
TransnationalLaura Briggs
ViolenceJinee Lokaneeta
End Matter
- Index

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Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth

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