Feminism

Mary Evans is Professor of Gender at London School of Economics. 

VOLUME ONE: THE IMAGINATION OF FEMINISM
Extract from The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest - Mary Astell
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Paradoxes of Feminism - Barbara Taylor
The Tragedy of Women′s Emancipation - Emma Goldman
Why We Are Militant - Emmeline Pankhurst
Extract from Women: The Longest Revolution - Juliet Mitchell
The Ultimate Revolution - Shulamith Firestone
The Power of the Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine - Luce Irigaray
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organising across Sexualities - Audre Lorde
Re-thinking Sex and Gender - Christine Delphy
Alexandra Kollantai and Marxist Feminism - Jinee Lokaneeta
Telling Feminist Stories - Clare Hemmings
Feminism and Enlightenment Legacies - Kate Soper
The Trade in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex - Gayle Rubin
Review of White Lives: The Interplay of ‘Race’, Class and Gender in Everyday Life by Bridget Byrne - Vron Ware
Feminism’s History - Joan Wallach Scott
The Distractions of the Modern - John Jervis
VOLUME TWO: MAKING FEMINISM
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-Discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics - Kimberle Crenshaw
Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” - Judith Butler
Does Feminism Need a Conception of Civil Society? - Anne Phillips
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod
‘Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties’: Women, Higher Education and Gender Conservatism in Late Victorian Britain - Julia Bush
The Gendered Order of Caring - Kathryn Lynch and Maureen Lyons
Weaving Relational Webs: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Embodied Practice - Carolyn Pedwell
Feminism, Gender and Social Policy - Afiya S. Zia
‘Re-booting’ Is Not an Option: Toward Equitable Social and Economic Development - Stephanie Seguino
A Willfulness Archive - Sara Ahmed
Agency and Oppression: Two Views - Sumi Madhok
Intersectional and Cross Movement Politics and Policies: Reflections on Current Practices and Debates - Mieke Verloo
The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the “Sex” Amendment - Dorothy Sue Cobble
Christabel Pankhurst and the Smethwick Election: Right Wing Feminism, the Great War and the Ideology of Consumption - Nicoletta Gullace
VOLUME THREE: LOCATIONS OF FEMINISM
Racism and Feminism: The Issue of Accountability - Bell Hooks
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Mohanty
The Exile, the Nomad and the Migrant: Reflections on International Feminism - Rosi Braidotti
Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions - Lila Abu-Lughod
What Will the Women Want Next?’ The Struggle for Power within the Family, 1925–1975 - Stephen Cretney
I’m a Feminist but…“Other” Women and Postnational Feminism - Ien Ang
Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice - Johanna Brenner
Between Particularism, Universalism and Transversalism: Reflections on the Politics of Location of European Feminist Research and Education - Nina Lykke
Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular & Response - Gayatri Spivak
Author(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women’s Involvement in Religious ‘Fundamentalist’ Movements - Sarah Bracke
Globalisation and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global Arena - Myra Marx Ferree
Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System - María Lugones
Postcolonial Subjectivity: Masculinity, Shame, and Memory - Amal Treacher
Who Defines ‘Mutilation’? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting - Courtney Smith
VOLUME FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURES
Extract from Three Guineas - Virginia Woolf
Beyond the Politics of Location: The Power of Argument in a Global Era - Sylvia Walby
Histories of a Feminist Future - Elizabeth Grosz
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century - Donna Haraway
Feminist Theory, Embodiment and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival - Saba Mahmood
On Being in Time with Feminism - Robyn Wiegman
Trans as Bodily Becoming: Rethinking the Biological as Diversity, Not Dichotomy - Riki Lane
Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism - Greta Gaard
Rethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-Secular Age - Niamh Reilly
‘Race’, Gender and Neoliberalism: Changing Visual Representations in Development - Kalpana Wilson
Conclusion from End of Equality - Beatrix Campbell
Rethinking Gender from the South - Raewyn Connell
Texturing Visibility: Opaque Femininities and Feminist Modernist Studies - Ilya Parkins