*=New to this edition Preface Feminisms and Their Contributions to Gender Equality PART I: GENDER REFORM FEMINISMS 1. Liberal Feminism * A Theory of Female Subordination, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Integrating Family and Work in the 21st Century, Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson 2. Marxist Feminism * Theorizing Racial and Gendered Class, Joan Acker Gender, Race, and Citizenship, Evelyn Nakano Glenn 3. Socialist Feminism * Gender and Complex Inequality, Leslie McCall * The Invisible Heart, Nancy Folbre 4. Postcolonial and Asian Feminism Under Western Eyes at the Turn of the Century, Chandra Talpade Mohanty * Climbing the Pyramids of Power, Rae Lesser Blumberg PART II: GENDER RESISTANCE FEMINISMS 5. Radical Feminism * Redstockings Manifesto, Redstockings * Goodbye to All That (#2), Robin Morgan 6. Lesbian Feminism * Decentering Lesbian Feminism, Arlene Stein * Lipstick or Timberlands? Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities, Mignon R. Moore 7. Psychoanalytic Feminism * Freud and Feminism, Nancy J. Chodorow * The Laugh of the Medusa, Hélène Cixous 8. Standpoint Feminism * Women's Standpoint: Embodied Knowledge versus the Ruling Relations, Dorothy E. Smith * Gendered Standpoints on Nature, Sandra Harding PART III: GENDER REBELLION FEMINISMS 9. Multiracial/Multiethnic Feminism * Black Feminism, Knowledge, and Power, Patricia Hill Collins Nego-Feminism, Obioma Nnaemeka 10. Feminist Studies of Men * Hegemonic Masculinity, R.W. Connell and James W. Messerschmidt Gender, Class, and Terrorism, Michael S. Kimmel 11. Social Construction Feminism * Gender as a Social Structure, Barbara J. Risman * Imagining a World without Gender, Judith Lorber 12. Postmodern Feminism and Queer Theory Gender, Sex, and Sexual Performativity, Judith Butler Thinking about Drag as Social Protest, Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor 13. Third-Wave Feminism Sisters vs. Daughters, Astrid Henry Third-Wave Black Feminism?, Kimberly Springer DO WE HAVE A NEW FEMINISM? Glossary Index
Judith Lorber is an international scholar in gender studies and
Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at Brooklyn
College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She
is the author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist
Change (2005), Paradoxes of Gender (1994), numerous articles on
gender and on women in healthcare, and coauthor of Gendered Bodies:
Feminist Perspectives (OUP, 2006) and
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness (2002).
"Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics is the best book
out there for exposing students to the nuances of feminist theory.
The structure of the book (particularly the beginning of each
chapter) makes it very simple for the students to engage in active
learning. This text offers students an exhaustive analysis of
feminist scholarship and politics and fosters critical thinking
about the construction of gender and the intersections of
gender
with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nation."--Dana
Berkowitz, Louisiana State University
"The pedagogy is outstanding! I find students (and myself) can
easily make comparisons and contrasts between the different
theoretical approaches by referring to the outline at the beginning
of each chapter with the bullets describing sources, politics, and
contributions. The suggested readings at the end of the chapter are
also highly useful for students working on projects or
papers."--Jane Prather, California State University, Northridge
"This book provides an excellent overview of feminist theories that
are often given short shrift in other texts. Lorber's book gives
students a good theoretical foundation, as well as primary sources
for readings."--Susan Farrell, Kingsborough Community College
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