Part One: Inventing Gender = 1
Defining Feminism and Feminist Theory
What is Feminism? = 5
Rosalind Delmar
The Combahee River Collective Statement = 29
Combahee River Collective
From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism = 38
Cherrie Moraga
Anti-Anti-Identity Politics: Feminism, Democracy, and the Complexities of Citizenship = 56
Susan Bickford
Mutual Influence: Humanities and Social Science
Gender and the Meaning of Difference: Postmodernism and Psychology = 78
Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
Jeanne Marecek
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises = 110
Leslie W. Rabine
Part Two: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender = 131
From Sex to Sexuality
The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants = 135
Suzanne J. Kessler
The Politics of Androgyny in Japan: Sexuality and Subversion in the Theater and Beyond = 158
Jennifer Robertson
Constructing Gender
Notes Toward a Feminist Peace Politics = 196
Sara Ruddick
Making It Perfectly Queer = 215
Lisa Duggan
Conceptualizing Difference
Sex Equality: On Difference and Dominance = 232
Catharine A. Mackinnon
Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism = 254
Joan W. Scott
Part Three: Gender, Race, and Class = 271
Race and Gender
On Being the Object of Property = 276
Patricia J. Williams
Gender, Race, Raza = 295
Amy Kaminsky
Postcolonialism
Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria = 321
Marnia Lazreg
Violence in the Other Country: China as Crisis, Spectacle, and Woman = 345
Rey Chow
Work, Class, and Gender
From High Heels to Swathed Bodies: Gendered Meanings Under Production in Mexico's Export-Processing Industry = 365
Leslie Salzinger
Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo = 387
Arlene Elowe Macleod
Part Four: Questioning Feminisms = 413
Women, Citizenship, and Activism
Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction = 416
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Dissident Citizenship: Democratic Theory, Political Courage, and Activist Women = 443
Holloway Sparks
Feminism/Postfeminism
Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine = 482
Judith Halberstam
African and Western Feminisms: World-Traveling the Tendencies and Possibilities Christine Sylvester
501
Defining Feminism and Feminist Theory
What is Feminism? = 5
Rosalind Delmar
The Combahee River Collective Statement = 29
Combahee River Collective
From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism = 38
Cherrie Moraga
Anti-Anti-Identity Politics: Feminism, Democracy, and the Complexities of Citizenship = 56
Susan Bickford
Mutual Influence: Humanities and Social Science
Gender and the Meaning of Difference: Postmodernism and Psychology = 78
Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
Jeanne Marecek
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises = 110
Leslie W. Rabine
Part Two: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender = 131
From Sex to Sexuality
The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants = 135
Suzanne J. Kessler
The Politics of Androgyny in Japan: Sexuality and Subversion in the Theater and Beyond = 158
Jennifer Robertson
Constructing Gender
Notes Toward a Feminist Peace Politics = 196
Sara Ruddick
Making It Perfectly Queer = 215
Lisa Duggan
Conceptualizing Difference
Sex Equality: On Difference and Dominance = 232
Catharine A. Mackinnon
Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism = 254
Joan W. Scott
Part Three: Gender, Race, and Class = 271
Race and Gender
On Being the Object of Property = 276
Patricia J. Williams
Gender, Race, Raza = 295
Amy Kaminsky
Postcolonialism
Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria = 321
Marnia Lazreg
Violence in the Other Country: China as Crisis, Spectacle, and Woman = 345
Rey Chow
Work, Class, and Gender
From High Heels to Swathed Bodies: Gendered Meanings Under Production in Mexico's Export-Processing Industry = 365
Leslie Salzinger
Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo = 387
Arlene Elowe Macleod
Part Four: Questioning Feminisms = 413
Women, Citizenship, and Activism
Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction = 416
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Dissident Citizenship: Democratic Theory, Political Courage, and Activist Women = 443
Holloway Sparks
Feminism/Postfeminism
Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine = 482
Judith Halberstam
African and Western Feminisms: World-Traveling the Tendencies and Possibilities Christine Sylvester
501