Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration / Edition 1

by S. Gillis, G. Howie, R. Munford

Overview

This revised and expanded edition, new in paperback, provides a definitive collection on the current period in feminism known by many as the 'third wave'. Three sections - genealogies and generations, locales and locations, politics and popular culture - interrogate the wave metaphor and, through questioning the generational account of feminism, indicate possible future trajectories for the feminist movement. New to this edition are an interview with Luce Irigaray, a foreword by Imelda Whelehan as well as newly commissioned chapters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403918215
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/11/2004
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MRIDULA NATH CHAKRABORTY is completing her PhD in English at the University of Alberta, Canada PAMELA CHURCH GIBSON is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, UK EDWARD DAVIES is Researching in Women's Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK JENNIFER DRAKE is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Indiana State University, USA EDNIE KAEH GARRISON is Visiting Professor of Wone's Studies at Wells College, USA KRISTYN GORTON is Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture in the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK LESLIE HEYWOOD is Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at the State University of New York, Binghampton, USA NIAMH MOORE is Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Environmental Risk, University of East Anglia, UK DENISE deCAIRES NARAIN is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex, UK WENDY O'BRIEN is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Central Queensland University, Australia MARY ORR is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Exeter, UK PATRICIA PENDER is currently completing her PhD in English at Stanford University, USA SHERIN SAADALLAH is affiliated to Kvinnoforum in Sweden, a foundation working for gender and women's rights internationally LISE SANDERS is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, USA ANDREW SHAIL recently completed his PhD at the University of Exeter, UK MARGRIT SHILDRICK is Senior Research Fellow at WERRC, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ELAINE SHOWALTER is Professor Emeritus of English and Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, USA JANE SPENCER is Reader in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK CRISTINA LUCIA STASIA is a Doctoral Student in the English Department at Syracuse University, USA ALISON STONE is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University, UK ASHLEY TAUCHERT is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies in the School of English at the University of Exeter, UK NICOLE WARD JOUVE is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of York, UK WINIFRED WOODHULL is Associate Professor of French and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego, USA

Table of Contents

Foreword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism; N.Moore A Different Chronology: Reflections on Feminism in Contemporary Poland; A.Graff Global Feminism, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production; W.Woodhull Neither Cyborg nor Goddess: The (Im)possibilities of Cyberfeminism; S.Gillis PART III: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness; E.K.Garrison 'Also I Wanted so Much to Leave for the West': Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave; A.Valassopoulos (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and Ally McBeal; K.Gorton 'Kicking Ass is Comfort Food': Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon; P.Pender 'My Guns are in the Fendi!': The Postfeminist Female Action Hero; C.L.Stasia Sexing it Up? Women, Pornography and the Third Wave Feminism; M.Waters 'Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss': Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power; R.Munford IN DIALOGUE Interview with Luce Irigaray; G.Howie Interview with Elaine Showalter; S.Gillis & R.Munford Afterword; J.Spencer Index

Editorial Reviews

'This expanded second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism' is an unexpected pleasure. While much work on 'the third wave' is ahistorical, nationally-bounded and analytically bankrupt, here the editors bring together an impressive range of articles living up to the volume's subtitle of 'critical exploration'. The anthology provides a historically and conceptually grounded background to the area, highlights the limits as well as possibilities of generational approaches, and constitutes a politically diverse, international set of reflections on the terrain. Essential reading.' - Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics

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