Provoking Agents
Subtitle: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice
By: edited by Judith Kegan Gardiner.
Contributors: Gardiner, Judith Kegan.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Urbana, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780252064180; 9780252021329
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Feminist theory; Gender identity; Agent (Philosophy)
Description: Both the women’s liberation movement and those who have studied it characterize agency as the capacity to make change in individual consciousness, personal lives, and society. The seventeen contributors to Provoking Agents explore whether—and how—feminist theory, writing, and other social practices can help readers move beyond seeing women as a powerless group to effecting changes in their own lives and, ultimately, becoming social activists. Topics in this multi-disciplinary collection range from maternal surrogacy to writing, from consciousness-raising to AIDS activism, from pornography to local organizing.

(Source: [University of Illinois Press](https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p064180))
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, JUDITH KEGAN GARDINER
pagenum: 1; title: Part 1: Agents for Change; label: 1.
title: Acting Otherwise, ELLEN MESSER-DAVIDOW
pagenum: 23; label: 2.
title: Consciousness and Action: Historical Agency in the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, MARGARET STROBEL
pagenum: 52; label: 3.
title: Mothers of Invention: Women’s Agency in the Kenyan State, PATRICIA STAMP
pagenum: 69; label: 4.
title: Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory, KATIE KING
pagenum: 93; title: Part 2: Reproductive Agendas; label: 5.
title: Reproductive Technologies and the Negotiation of Public Meanings: The Case of Baby M, VALERIE HARTOUNI
pagenum: 115; label: 6.
title: Cyborgean Motherhood and Abortion, PATRICIA S. MANN
pagenum: 133; label: 7.
title: Maternal Agency vs. the Brotherhood of Males, MIRIAM M. JOHNSON
pagenum: 152; title: Part 3: Enacting Theories; label: 8.
title: Women’s Agency in Psychological Contexts, JULIE NELSON-KUNA AND STEPHANIE RIGER
pagenum: 169; label: 9.
title: Agency: What’s the Problem? SANDRA LEE BARTKY
pagenum: 178; label: 10.
title: Subjects and Agents: The Question for Feminism, SUSAN HEKMAN
pagenum: 194; label: 11.
title: Feminist Forms of Agency and Oppositional Consciousness: U.S. Third World Feminist Criticism, CHELA SANDOVAL
pagenum: 208; title: Part 4: Representation in Action; label: 12.
title: What Are We Doing? What Do We Want? Who Are We? Comprehending the Subject of Feminism, PATROCINIO P. SCHWEICKART
pagenum: 229; label: 13.
title: Resisting Images: Rereading Adolescence, MARIANNE HIRSCH
pagenum: 249; label: 14.
title: Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, CARLA KAPLAN
pagenum: 280; label: 15.
title: A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle, LINDA WILLIAMS
pagenum: 302; title: Contributors
pagenum: 321; title: Index
pagenum: 325