The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have generated extensive discussion. Organized historically, these essays provide a sense of the major turning points in feminist theory.
Contributors include: Norma Alarcon, Linda Alcoff, Michele Barrett, Elsa Barkley Brown, Judith Butler, Nancy Chodorow, Patricia Hill Collins, Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Nancy Fraser, Carol Gilligan, Heidi Hartmann, Nancy C. M. Hartsock, Luce Irigaray, Catharine MacKinnon, Uma Narayan, Linda Nicholson, Ellen Rooney, Gayle Rubin, Gayatri Spivak, Wendy W. Williams and Monique Wittig.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; PART 1: EARLY STATEMENTS:, 1. Simone de Beauvoir--Introduction to The Second Sex , 2. Shulamith Firestone--The Dialectic of Sex , 3. Gayle Rubin--The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex, 4. The Combahee River Collective--A Black Feminist Statement, 5. Wendy W. Williams--The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism , PART 2: WITH AND AGAINST MARX:, 6. Heidi Hartman--The Unhappy Mariage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union, 7. Michele Barrett--Capitalism and Women's Liberation, 8. Linda Nicholson--Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic, PART 3: GYNOCENTRISM: WOMEN'SOPPRESSION, WOMEN'S IDENTITY, AND WOMEN'S STANDPOINT:, 9. Radicalesbians--The Woman Identified Woman, 10. Catharine A. MacKinnon--Sexuality, 11. Nancy Chodorow--The Psychodynamics of the Family , 12. Carol Gilligan--Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle , 13. Nancy C. M. Hartsock--The Feminist Standpoint:Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism, 14. Patricia Hill Collins--Defining Black Feminist Thought, PART 4: THEORIZINGDIFFERENCE/DECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY:, 15. Monique Wittig--One is Not Born a Woman;, 16. Elsa Barkley Brown--What has Happened Here? The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics, 17. Norma Alarcon--The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism, 18. Judith Butler--Imitation and Gender Insubordination, PART 5: THE QUESTION OF ESSENTIALISM:, 19. Luce Irigaray--This Sex Which is Not One, 20. Linda Alcoff-- Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: An Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory, 21. Gayatri Spivak with Ellen Rooney--In a Word, Interview, 22. Nancy Fraser-- Structuralism or Pragmatics? On Discourse Theory and Feminist Politics, 23. Uma Narayan--Contesting Cultures: Westernization, Respect for Cultures, and Third-World Feminists.
