The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: · Feminist subjectivity – from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body · Feminist texts – writing, reading, genre and critique · Feminism and the world – from power, trauma and value to technology, migration and community Including insights from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for scholarship, debate and activism. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright information Contents Figures Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction Notes Works Cited Part One The Subject Chapter One Subject Notes Works Cited Chapter Two Identity Time Space Knowledge Notes Works Cited Chapter Three Difference Getting Started Defining Difference Comparative and Contrastive Readings Strides toward Diversity Notes Works Cited Chapter Four Birth Introduction: Feminism and.Birth The Human Condition of Being.Born The Female Condition of Giving.Birth The Future of.Birth Notes Works Cited Chapter Five Body Introduction: After the “Corporeal Turn” Part A: Gravity Fields Mud Mark Meat Part B: Mobility Vectors Force Form Flesh Notes Works Cited Chapter Six Affect Feminist Genealogies Expression after the Expressive Subject Notes Works Cited Chapter Seven Sex Fundamentals of Twenty-First-Century Sex Discourse Sex, Laws, and Power Bodies Beyond Trans Identity and TERF Battles Redefining Sex from the Margins Sex Work Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter Eight Intersex/Transgender The Normal and the Pathological: Organizing Gender Intersex/Transgender: The Case of Marin le Marcis Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter Nine Experience Introduction Experience in Feminist Theory Experience in Feminist Politics Experience as Capital: Two Case Studies “Survivor Stories” in Sex Industry Politics Rape in Trans-Exclusionary Feminism My Personal Is More Political: Experience without Structure Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Chapter Ten Intersectionality Brief Historical Overview of Intersectionality Social Identity Theory, Borderlands Theory, and Intersectionality Master Statuses and Intersectionality Borderlands Theory Conclusion Notes Works Cited Part Two The Text Chapter Eleven Language Appendix UMMAnifesto.2018 Notes Works Cited Chapter Twelve Writing Recovery and Women’s Literary Traditions The “Woman’s Sentence”: Gendered Writing Styles Notes Works Cited Chapter Thirteen Reading Accountability and Accounting Ethics, Affects, Politics Violence and Consensus Notes Works Cited Chapter Fourteen Realism Periodization Female Realism Poetry—Anna Barbauld Charrière Sand Works Cited Chapter Fifteen Poetics Feminism, Poetry, and Theory: An Investigation Granting Permission: Toward a Feminist Poetics Exploring the Untried: Some (Further) Thoughts on Twenty-First-Century Feminist Poetics Notes Works Cited Chapter Sixteen Translation Re-tracing the Burgeoning “Feminist Translation” Movement Strategies of Feminist Translation Macro-Strategies Translators’ Notes, Prefaces, Explanations Non-translation and Strategic Text Selection Feminist Publishing, Reviewing, Critiquing Retranslation Gratis Translation Micro-Strategies Stylistic/Grammatical Adjustments Creative/Neologistic Translation Research and.Rifts Translation and Transnational Feminism Notes Works Cited Chapter Seventeen Genre Genre Regendered: Early Modern Women and Epic Christine de Pizan and Epic Moderata Fonte, Floridoro Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter Eighteen Archive Documenting Feminism in Archival Collections Grassroots Archives Group Collections within Institutions Single-Author Collections Between Archive Theory and Feminist Theory Voices, Methods, Process Temporality and Genealogy Materials, Materiality, Body Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter Nineteen Critique Feminist “Genres” of Critique versus the Postcritical Turn Paranoid Critique and the Feminist Queer Reparative Turn Rethinking Klein’s Ambivalent Legacies in Feminist Queer Studies Toward a “Kleinian” Genealogy of Critique: Phantasy, Play, and Other Theoretical “Deficiencies” Notes Works Cited Part Three The World Chapter.Twenty World Chapter Twenty-One Environment Chapter Twenty-Two Anthropocene Introduction Placing the Golden Spike Feminism Goes Planetary Feminist Posthumanism and the Anthropocene Subject Speculative Feminism, Imaginative Futures Notes Works Cited Chapter Twenty-Three The Political Antigonisms Biopolitics: A Faustian Pact The Actuality of the Political, the Excess of the Social, and the Stakes of Intimate Revolt Rosa Luxemburg as a Jewish Antigone: Outsider-Femininity, Council Republicanism, and the Road Not Taken Equivocations of the Political: Lapses of Justice, Misconceptions of Empire Imperial Blob: Performative Contradictions of the Political in the Age of Neoliberal Lumpen Power Unruly Needs and the Question of Hegemony Disavowals of the Political: Illusions of Inclusion and Influence Reckoning with the Political Crisis of Feminism Crowds, People, and Party: The Breast-Value of the Political Works Cited Chapter Twenty-Four Political Trauma Introduction: Captive Maternal Theorizing Maternals as Maroons Western Womb Theory Time Theft and Trauma Conclusion Works Cited Chapter Twenty-Five Labor Introduction Early Feminism: Labor’s Equalizing Potential The Problem of Domestic Labor A Political Economy of Women’s Labor Capitalism’s Complex Social Reproductive Labor Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter Twenty-Six Commodity The “Exchange of Women” and the Commodity Entrepreneur of the Self “Pharmaco-Porn” Politics Works Cited Chapter Twenty-Seven Matter Chapter Twenty-Eight Technology Introduction History Feminist Approaches to Technology Cyborgs Feminist Technology Studies Notes Works Cited Chapter Twenty-Nine Home Chapter Thirty Migration (Migrant) Mobilities Feminist Migrations (Migrant) Homes Notes Works Cited Chapter Thirty-One Diaspora Earlier Studies on Post-Second World War Diasporas Border and Diaspora Border, Politics of Location, Diaspora, and Diaspora Space Diaspora and Intersectionality Queering Diasporas Works Cited Chapter Thirty-Two Community Notes Works Cited Chapter Thirty-Three Anti-Imperialism Dissenting Histories Feminist International National Liberation State Feminism Imperial Feminism Women against Fundamentalism The New Anti-Imperialism Coda Notes Works Cited Chapter Thirty-Four Future Introduction Free Fall: “Ours Is a World in Vertigo” Alienation as an Impetus to Generate New Worlds Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is now a PROSE Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: · Feminist subjectivity – from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body · Feminist texts – writing, reading, genre and critique · Feminism and the world – from power, trauma and value to technology, migration and community Including insights from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for scholarship, debate and activism. "The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: -- Feminist subjectivity - from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body -- Feminist texts - writing, reading, genre and critique -- Feminism and the world - from power, trauma and value to technology, migration and community Including insights from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for scholarship, debate and activism."--Bloomsbury Publishing. "The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: -- Feminist subjectivity - from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body -- Feminist texts - writing, reading, genre and critique -- Feminism and the world - from power, trauma and value to technology, migration and community Including insights from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for scholarship, debate and activism."-- Provided by publisher