Third wave feminism
Subtitle: a critical exploration
By: edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford.
Contributors: Gillis, Stacy, 1972-; Howie, Gillian.; Munford, Rebecca, 1975-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Feminism; Feminist theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Genealogies / Jane Spencer. 'It's all about the Benjamins' : economic determinants of third wave feminism in the United States / Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake ; Contests for the meaning of third wave feminism : feminism and popular consciousness / Ednie Kaeh Garrison ; Feminist dissonance : the logic of late feminism / Gillian Howie and Ashley Tauchert ; 'Feminists love a utopia' : collaboration, conflict, and the futures of feminism / Lise Shapiro Sanders ; Interview with Elaine Showalter / Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford; title: Introduction : Sex and genders / Margrit Shildrick. Kristeva and the trans-missions of the intertext : signs, mothers and speaking in tongues / Mary Orr ; On the genealogy of women : a defence of anti-essentialism / Alison Stone ; 'You're not one of those boring masculinists, are you?' The question of male-embodied feminism / Andrew Shail ; Finding ourselves : postmodern identities and the transgender movement / Edward Davies ; Qu(e)erying pornography : contesting identity politics in feminism / Wendy O'Brien; title: Introduction : popular culture / Pamela Church Gibson. 'Wake up and smell the lipgloss' : gender, generation and the (a)politics of girl power / Rebecca Munford ; (Un)fashionable feminists : the media and Ally McBeal / Kristyn Gorton; title: 'Kicking ass is comfort food' : Buffy as third wave feminist icon / Patricia Pender ; 'Wham! Bam! Thank you ma'am!' The new public/private female action hero / Cristina Lucia Stasia ; Neither cyborg nor goddess : the (im)possibilities of cyberfeminism / Stacy Gillis; title: Introduction : Challenges / Nicole Ward Jouve. Wa(i)ving it all away : producing subject and knowledge in feminisms of colour / Mridula Nath Chakraborty ; Muslim feminism in the third wave : a reflective inquiry / Sherin Saadallah ; Ecofeminism as third wave feminism? Essentialism, activism and the academy / Niamh Moore ; What happened to global sisterhood? Writing and reading 'the' postcolonial woman / Denise deCaires Narain ; Global feminisms, transnational political economies, third world cultural production / Winifred Woodhull.