Feminisms [Paperback]

Spanning nearly two decades, from 1980 to 1996, thisReaderinvestigates the debates which have best characterized feminist theory. Including such articles asPornography and Fantasy,The Body and Cinema,Nature as Female, andA Manifesto for Cyborgs, the extracts examine thoughts on sexualtiy as a domain of exploration, the visual representation of women, what being a feminist means, and why feminists are increasingly involved in political struggles to negotiate the context and meaning of technological development.
With writings by bell hooks, Alice Jardine, and Andrea Dworkin, this multiculturalReaderreflects the dynamic nature of feminist debates and the genuine diversity within current feminist theory. Capturing the sense of the rapid movement within feminist theory and criticism,Feminismsis ideal for anyone interested in feminism and the history behind it.

Introduction
1. Academies
1. In Praise of Theory: The Case for Women's Studies (1982),Mary Evans
2. Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression (1984),bell hooks
3. Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema (1985),Teresa de Lauretis
4. Speaking/Writing/Feminism (1986),Cora Kaplan
5. Me and My Shadow (1987),Jane Tompkins
6. French Feminism in an International Frame (1987),Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
7. Not One of the Family: The Repression of the Other Woman in Feminist Theory (1989),Helena Michie
8. A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory,Elaine Showalter
9. The Race for Theory (1989),Barbara Christian
10. Notes for an Analysis (1989),Alice Jardine
11. The Truth that Never Hurts: Black Lesbaians in Fiction in the 1980s (1990),Barbara Smith
12. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (1991),Chandra Talpade Mohlc‹