The Second Wave : A Reader in Feminist Theory (Paperback)

Introduction; PART 1: EARLY STATEMENTS:, 1. Simone de Beauvoir--Introduction to The Second Sex , 2. Shulamith Firestone--The Dialectic of Sex , 3. Gayle Rubin--The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex, 4. The Combahee River Collective--A Black Feminist Statement, 5. Wendy W. Williams--The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism , PART 2: WITH AND AGAINST MARX:, 6. Heidi Hartman--The Unhappy Mariage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union, 7. Michele Barrett--Capitalism and Women's Liberation, 8. Linda Nicholson--Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic, PART 3: GYNOCENTRISM: WOMEN'S OPPRESSION, WOMEN'S IDENTITY, AND WOMEN'S STANDPOINT:, 9. Radicalesbians--The Woman Identified Woman, 10. Catharine A. MacKinnon--Sexuality, 11. Nancy Chodorow--The Psychodynamics of the Family , 12. Carol Gilligan--Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle , 13. Nancy C. M. Hartsock--The Feminist Standpoint:Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism, 14. Patricia Hill Collins--Defining Black Feminist Thought, PART 4: THEORIZING DIFFERENCE/DECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY:, 15. Monique Wittig--One is Not Born a Woman;, 16. Elsa Barkley Brown--What has Happened Here? The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics, 17. Norma Alarcon--The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism, 18. Judith Butler--Imitation and Gender Insubordination, PART 5: THE QUESTION OF ESSENTIALISM:, 19. Luce Irigaray--This Sex Which is Not One, 20. Linda Alcoff-- Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: An Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory, 21. Gayatri Spivak with Ellen Rooney--In a Word, Interview, 22. Nancy Fraser-- Structuralism or Pragmatics? On Discourse Theory and Feminist Politics, 23. Uma Narayan--Contesting Cultures: Westernization, Respect for Cultures, and Third-World Feminists.