The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies 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. 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. Affect -- Agency -- Biopolitics -- Civilization -- Coloniality Of Gender And Power: From Postcoloniality To Decoloniality -- Cyborg And Virtual Bodies -- Development -- Diaspora -- Formal, Informal, And Care Economies -- Embodiment -- Experience -- Feminist Jurisprudence -- Feminist Standpoint -- Gendered Divisions Of Labor -- Governance -- Health -- Identities -- Institutions -- Intersectionality -- Intersexuality, Transgender, And Transsexuality -- Markets/marketization -- Materialisms -- Microphysics Of Power -- Migration -- Militarization And War -- Nature -- Norms And Normalization -- Performativity And Performance -- The Personal Is Political -- Policy -- Politics -- Pop Culture/visual Culture -- Posthuman Feminist Theory -- Pregnancy, Personhood, And The Making Of The Fetus -- Prison -- Race And Racialization -- Religion -- Representation -- Reproduction: From Rights To Justice? -- Science Studies -- Sex/gender -- Sexual Difference -- Sexualities -- State/nation -- Storytelling/narrative -- Subjectivity And Subjectivation -- Temporality -- Transnational -- Violence. Lisa Disch And Mary Hawkesworth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory.Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives hasprofound 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."--Rabat de la jaquette This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. Providing an overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyse the known world, this handbook features leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, and delves into 49 subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory