Acknowledgments p. ix
Introduction p. 1
Definitions and Movements
Introduction p. 12
Definitions
Inji Aflatun, "We Egyptian Women" p. 26
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, "Introduction" p. 32
Elizabeth Martinez, "La Chicana" p. 41
Bonnie Kreps, "Radical Feminism 1" p. 45
Bell hooks, "Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression" p. 50
Christine Delphy, "Rethinking Sex and Gender" p. 57
Amrita Basu, "Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements" p. 68
Movements
"No More Miss America!" p. 80
Charlotte Bunch, "Lesbians in Revolt" p. 83
Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky, "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective" p. 88
Gwendolyn Mikell, "African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation" p. 103
Noel Sturgeon, "Ecofeminist Appropriations and Transnational Environmentalisms" p. 113
Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes, "Female Consciousness or Feminist Consciousness?: Women's Consciousness Raising in Community-Based Struggles in Brazil" p. 126
Margaret D. Stetz, "Wartime Sexual Violence against Women: A Feminist Response" p. 138
Theorizing Intersecting Identities
Introduction p. 148
Race and Nation
The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement" p. 164
Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem" p. 172
Mitsuye Yamada, "Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" p. 174
Gloria Anzaldua, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" p. 179
Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas, "The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws" p. 188
Mallika Dutt, "Some Reflections on U.S. Women of Color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China" p. 197
Class
Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union" p. 206
Linda Y. C. Lim, "Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third-World Women Workers in Multinational Factories" p. 222
Maxine Molyneux, "Mobilization without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua" p. 231
Sexuality
Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" p. 242
Monique Wittig, "One Is Not Born a Woman" p. 249
Audre Lorde, "I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities" p. 255
Gayatri Gopinath, "Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet" p. 260
Karin Aguilar-San Juan, "Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America" p. 267
Theorizing Feminist Agency and Politics
Introduction p. 278
Standpoints
Nancy C. M. Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism" p. 292
Uma Narayan, "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist" p. 308
Patricia Hill Collins, "The Politics of Black Feminist Thought" p. 318
Cheshire Calhoun, "Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory" p. 334
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill, "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism" p. 353
Poststructuralist Theories
Lata Mani, "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception" p. 364
Joan W. Scott, "Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism" p. 378
Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" p. 391
Norma Alarcon, "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism" p. 404
Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" p. 415
Carolyn Sorisio, "A Tale of Two Feminisms: Power and Victimization in Contemporary Feminist Debate" p. 428
Locations and Coalitions
June Jordan, "Report from the Bahamas" p. 438
Adrienne Rich, "Notes Toward a Politics of Location" p. 447
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience" p. 460
JeeYeun Lee, "Beyond Bean Counting" p. 472
Works Cited p. 477
Permissions p. 493