A reader in feminist knowledge
/ edited by Sneja Gunew
- xi, 414 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Feminist knowledge : critique and construct Black women and women's liberation / Jackie Huggins Aboriginal women, separate spaces, and feminism / Diane Bell Sisterhood / Bell Hooks (Gloria Watkins) Part II. Feminist knowledge and women's studies The uneasy alliance of feminism and academia / Marian Lowe and Margaret Lowe Benston From margin to mainstream / Susan Sheridan What's new in women's history / Linda Gordon Part III. Male theories of power Gender and dichotomy / Nancy Joy Part IV. Feminism and subjectivity An impasse in psychoanalysis and feminism / Teresa Brennan A critique of the sex/gender distinction / Moira Gatens Part VI. Psychoanalysis and feminism This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray Jacques Lacan / Ellie Ragland-Sullivan The laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous Part VII. Biology and feminism The politics of right and left / Susan Leigh Star Science and gender / Ruth Bleier Part VIII. Religion Bread not stone / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Renewal or new creation? / Rosemary Radford Ruether Why women need the goddess / Carol P. Chirst Part IX. Radical feminism We are the feminist that women have warned us about / Jessica York [and eight others] In defence of separatism / Susan Hawthorne Not for lesbians only / Charlotte Bunch The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anna Koedt The spiritual dimension of women's liberation / Mary Daty The visionary task : two sights-seeing / Janice Raymond Part X. Socialist feminist intervention Lords of creation / Barbara Taylor Love's labours lost / Mia Campioni and Elizabeth Grosz