Provocations : A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought / Bordo/Alcalde; ed. by Ellen Rosenman, Susan Bordo, M. Cristina Alcalde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bordo/Alcalde, Author.

Contributor:

Alcalde, M. Cristina, Editor.

Bordo, Susan, Editor.

Rosenman, Ellen, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--History.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 p.) : 6

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist history. Provocations includes engaging, historically significant primary sources by writers of many nationalities in numerous genres-from political manifestos to theoretical and cultural analysis to poetry and fiction. These texts range from those of classical antiquity to others composed during the Arab Spring and represent Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Western Europe, and the United States. Each section begins with an introductory essay that presents central ideas and explores connections among readings, placing them in historical, national, and intellectual contexts and concluding with questions for discussion and reflection.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD: THE CHALLENGES OF CONSTRUCTING A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY

PART 1 CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE Antiquity to 1800

1 FEMINIST THOUGHT BEFORE THE RENAISSANCE

2 CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DES FEMMES

3 SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study

4 RADICAL DOUBT AND THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN

PART 2 ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

5 SEXUAL POLITICS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA The Case of Prostitution

6 WOMENS SUFFRAGE Transnational Connections

PART 3 TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE WOMENS LIBERATION Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries

7 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE DOUDOU Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean

8 LOCATING THE FEMINIST SPIRIT IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES IN INDIA Tarabai Shinde and Lalithambika Antherjanam

9 PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION AND TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen

10 A ROOM OF ONES OWN IN TRANSRACIAL PERSPECTIVE

11 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The Feminist Philosopher as Other

PART 4 DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM 19551975

12 THE PERSONAL POLITICS OF CLASS

13 FEMINISTS REIMAGINE THE BODY

14 THE U. S. WOMENS LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND BLACK FEMINIST SISTERHOOD

15 TRIPLE JEOPARDY The Third World Womens Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms

16 STRAINED SISTERHOOD Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U. S. Womens Liberation Movement

17 THE LATIN AMERICAN LESBIAN MOVEMENT Its Shaping and Its Search for Autonomy

18 WHO IS YOUR MOTHER? Red Roots of White Feminism

19 SUFFERING LIKE AN AFRICAN GIRL Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembgas Nervous Conditions

20 THE MEANING OF SPATIAL BOUNDARIES

PART 5 BEYOND THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN 1975 to the Present

21 MOTHERS, GUERRILLAS, AND REVOLUTIONARIES Womens Mobilization and Activism in Latin America

22 FEMINIST ORGANIZING AROUND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN MALI, PERU, AND INDIA

23 FREEDOM FROM SEXISM VERSUS SEXUAL FREEDOM A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars

24 TWO GENERATIONS OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970

25 MEN AND WOMENS STUDIES Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility

26 IDENTITY, ACTIVISM, AND THIRD WAVE FEMINISM IN THE UNITED STATES

27 CAPTURED IN TRANSLATION Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization

28 GENDERING THE ARAB SPRING

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35595-4

OCLC:

1402804634