Best of
Feminist-Theory

1989

Women, Culture, and Politics


Angela Y. Davis - 1989
    A collection of her speeches and writings which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism


Trinh T. Minh-ha - 1989
    methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious... " --Text and Performance QuarterlyWoman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." --Chandra Talpade MohantyThe idea of Trinh T. Minh-ha is as powerful as her films... formidable... " --Village Voice... its very forms invite the reader to participate in the effort to understand how language structures lived possibilities." --ArtpaperHighly recommended for anyone struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'." --Religious Studies Review

Letters from a War Zone


Andrea Dworkin - 1989
    Reflections on writing and writers, freedom of speech and censorship, pornography, violence against women, and the politics of our time.

A Vindication of the Rights of Whores


Gail Pheterson - 1989
    Now, 200 years later, prostitutes are calling for similar rights and equality. The need o speak out for the rights of sex workers became clear to Margo St. James, a former prostitute, in the early 1970s. She founded Coyote (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973 and went on to establish a network of prostitutes, social workers and politicians.The book consists of the voices of a diverse group of prostitutes, sex worker's rights activists and feminist scholars from around the world, discussing their lives and their concerns.It includes the complete text of the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights; unedited transcripts of workshop arranged by topic from the First World Whores' Congress held in Amsterdam in February 1985 and Second World Whores' Congress at the European Parliament held in Brussels in October 1986; position papers; as well as interviews with various participants.

Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing


Alison M. Jaggar - 1989
    Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.

Spaces Like Stairs


Gail Scott - 1989
    Scott writes of women, community and writing, tracing the effect of fiction upon theory, and theoretical thinking upon fictional text.

Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern


Patricia Waugh - 1989
    Authors discussed include Woolf, Drabble, Plath and Walker.