Feminist theory reader : local and global perspectives / [edited by] Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

We Egyptian women / Inji Aflatun -- The second sex: introduction / Simone de Beauvoir -- La chicana / Elizabeth Martinez -- Radical Feminism 1 / Bonnie Kreps -- Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression / bell hooks -- Rethinking sex and gender / Christine Delphy -- Globalization of the local/localization of the global: mapping transnational women's movements / Amrita Basu -- No more Miss America! -- Lesbians in revolt / Charlotte Bunch -- Reproductive and sexual rights: a feminist perspective / Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky -- African feminism: toward a new politics of representation / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Ecofeminist appropriations and transnational environmentalisms / Noël Sturgeon -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes -- Wartime sexual violence against women: a feminist response / Margaret D. Stetz -- A black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective -- The bridge poem / Donna Kate Rushin -- Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada -- La conciencia de la mestiza: towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- The preferential symbol for Islamic identity: women in Muslim personal laws / Marie-Aimée Hélie-Lucas -- Some reflections on U.S. women of color and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing, China / Mallika Dutt -- The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism: towards a more progressive union / Heidi Hartmann -- Capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy: the dilemma of third-world women workers in multinational factories / Linda Y.C. Lim -- Mobilization without emancipation? women's interests, the state, and revolution in Nicaragua / Maxine Molyneux --

The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt -- One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig -- I am your sister: Black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Funny boys and girls: notes on a queer South Asian planet / Gayatri Gopinath -- Going home: enacting justice in queer Asian America / Karin Aguilar-San Juan -- The feminist standpoint: toward a specifically feminist historical materialism / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- The project of feminist epistemology: perspectives from a nonwestern feminist / Uma Narayan -- The politics of black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Separating lesbian theory from feminist theory / Cheshire Calhoun -- Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism / Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Multiple mediations: feminist scholarship in the age of multinational reception / Lata Mani -- Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: or, the uses of poststructuralist theory for feminism / Joan W. Scott -- Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective / Donna Haraway -- The theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcón -- Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler -- A tale of two feminisms: power and victimization in contemporary feminist debate / Carolyn Sorisio -- Report from the Bahamas / June Jordan -- Notes toward a politics of location / Adrienne Rich -- Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Beyond bean counting / JeeYeun Lee.