The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theoryprovides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory.
Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.
List of Contributors
Introduction Feminist Theory: Transforming the Known World Mary Hawkesworth and Lisa Disch
Chapter 1 Affect Marianne Liljestr?m
Chapter 2 Agency Lois McNay
Chapter 3 Biopolitics Ruth A. Miller
Chapter 4 Civilization Ann Towns
Chapter 5 Coloniality of Gender and Power: From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality Breny Mendoza
Chapter 6 Cyborgs and Virtual Bodies Krista Genevi?ve Lynes and Katerina Symes
Chapter 7 Development Elora Halim Chowdhury
Chapter 8 Diaspora Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur
Chapter 9 Formal, Informal and Care Economies Suzanne Bergeron
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