This collection is organized around key issues in feminist theory and empirical research. Essay topics include:
tensions between disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge building; the politics of identity and experience;
the complex terrain in which difference is used as a tool of oppression; the gender dynamics of power and resistance;
and visual and discursive representations of the female body. The volume concludes with some methodological and
political dilemmas feminists encounter as they expose the underlying ideological distortions in existing social
policies.
1. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles,
Emily Martin
2. Feminist Skepticism and the "Maleness" of Philosophy, Susan Bordo
3. Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience, Kathleen Canning
II. The Politics Of Identity And Experience
4. The Evidence of Experience, Joan Scott
5. Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and "Other" in Living and Writing the Text,
Jayati Lal
6. The Construction of Marginal Identities: Working-Class Girls of Algerian Descent in a French School, Catherine
Raissiguier
III. The Social Construction Of Difference
7. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought, Patricia
Hill Collins
8. Eating the Other, 'Black Looks: Race and Representation', bell hooks
9. Feminist Criticism, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and the Politics in Color America
IV. Power And Resistance
10. Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault, Monique Deveaux
11. Islam and Patriarchy: A Comparative Perspective, Deniz Kandiyoti
V. Discourses Of The Body
12. Embodied Geographies: Subjectivity and Materiality in the Work of Ana Mendieta, Anne Raine
13. The Power of "Positive" Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis, Rayna
Rapp
14. The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris
VI. Social Policy and Female Agency
15. Small Happinesses: The Feminist Struggle to Integrate Social Research with Social Activism, Roberta
Spalter-Roth & Heidi Hartmann
16. From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS, Cindy Patton
17.Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and Politics of Solidarity,
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
