Second Signs Reader
Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship 1983-1996

Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship 1983-1996


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A collection of work on American feminist scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the first "Signs Reader" in 1983. The volume has an interdisciplinary focus for the presentation and discussion of wide and complex issues of gender. The text also focuses on many recent areas of debate in feminist research, such as the intersection of feminism with cultural studies. Contributors include Nancy J. Chodorow, Lisa Disch, Ann duCille, Trisha Franzen, and Susan Stanford Friedman.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Barbara Laslett, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres. African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies Ann duCille Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse Susan Stanford Friedman Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective Iris Marion Young Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory Gayle Greene Gender as a Personal and Cultural Construction Nancy J. Chodorow The Construction of Subjectivity and the Paradox of Resistance: Reintegrating Feminist Anthropology and Psychology Maureen A. Mahoney, Barbara Yngvesson. Purity, Impurity, and Separation Maria Lugones Differences and Identities: Feminism and the Albuquerque Lesbian Community Trisha Franzen Getting It Right Marilyn Frye When a Looker Becomes a Bitch: Lisa Olson, Sport, and the Heterosexual Matrix Lisa Disch, Mary Jo Kane. "The Teachers, They All Had Their Pets": Concepts of Gender, Knowledge, and Power Wendy Luttrell About the Contributors Index

About the Author :
Barbara Laslett is professor of sociology at the University of Minnestoa and former editor of Signs. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is professor of the history of science at the University of Minnesota. Helen Longino teaches women's studies, philosophy, and science studies at the University of Minnesota. Evelynn M. Hammonds is assistant professor of the history of science in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226400600
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0226400603
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Feminist Scholarship 1983-1996


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