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"At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory. The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering: epistemology and marginality; literary, visual and cultural representations; sexuality; macro and microeconomics of gender; conflict and peace. The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think 'theoretically' is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding. With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism."--Publisher description pt. 1. Epistemology and marginality / Sumi Madhok and Mary Evans -- Feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge : questions of marginality / Lorraine Code -- Natural others? On nature, culture, and knowledge / Astrida Neimanis -- Feminist auto/biography / Gayle Letherby -- Power in feminist research processes / Sabine Grenz -- Women's 'lived experience' : feminism and phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the present / Sonia Kruks -- What do women want? Feminist epistemology and psychoanalytic theory / Kirsten Campbell -- Entangled subjects : feminism, religion and the obligation to alterity / Sîan Hawthorne -- Religion, feminist theory and epistemology / Mary Evans -- pt. 2. Literary, visual and cultural representation / Sadie Wearing -- What stories make worlds, what worlds make stories : Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Sam McBean -- On maternal listening : experiments in sound and the mother-daughter relation in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce / Amber Jacobs -- The space of a movement : life-writing against racism / Vron Ware -- Making memory work for feminist theory / Anna Reading -- Feminism and pornography / Karen Boyle -- Representing women in popular culture / Imelda Whelehan -- 'It's all about shopping' : the role of consumption in the feminization of journalism / Hatty Oliver -- pt. 3. Sexuality / Clare Hemmings -- (It's not all) Kylie concerts, exotic cocktails and gossip : the appearance of sexuality through 'gay' asylum in the UK / Emma Spruce -- Globalization and feminism : changing taxonomies of sex, gender and sexuality / Gilbert Caluya, Jennifer Germon and Elspeth Probyn -- Thinking sex materially : Marxist, socialist, and related feminist approaches / Rosemary Hennessy -- Transnational Black feminisms, womanisms and queer of color critiques / Michelle M. Wright -- States' sexualities : theorizing sexuality, gender and governance / Jyoti Puri -- The figure of the trafficked victim : gender, rights and representation / Rutvica Andrijasevic -- Sexuality, subjectivity ... and political economy? / Clare Hemmings -- pt. 4. Economy / Ania Plomien -- 'Homo economicus' and 'his' impact on gendered societies / Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger -- Integrating gender in economic analysis / Maria S. Floro -- Essentially quantified? Towards a more feminist modeling strategy / Wendy Sigle-Rushton -- Feminist perspectives on care : theory, practice and policy / Susan Himmelweit and Ania Plomien -- Power, privilege and precarity : the gendered dynamics of contemporary inequality / Robin Dunford and Diane Perrons -- Feminist perspectives on macroeconomics : reconfiguration of power structures and erosion of gender equality through the new economic governance regime in the European Union / Elisabeth Klatzer and Christa Schlager -- Gender, class and location in the global economy / Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper -- Social protection / Corina Rodríguez Enríquez -- pt. 5. War, violence and militarization / Marsha Henry -- Female combatants, feminism and just war / Laura Sjoberg -- Soldiering on : pushing militarized masculinities into new territory / Jane Parpart and Kevin Partridge -- Gender, genocide and gendercide / Adam Jones -- Understanding sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings / Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern -- (En)gendered terror : feminist approaches to political violence / Swati Parashar
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