Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.

    Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the “No Means No” model—an approach that while necessary for where we were in 1974, needs an overhaul today.Yes Means Yes will bring to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes aims to have radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished. With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yes is a powerful and revolutionary anthology.

    Now 150 biographic sketches shed new light on such familiar figures as the Bronte sisters and Clara Barton, while revealing the rarely studied yet remarkable achievements of women warriors. Historical essays place these women in the context of their times, while sidebars highlight women's wit, wisdom, and inventions on all frontiers, from science to fashion.Queen Hatshepsut --Sappho --Aspasia --Cleopatra --The Trung sisters --Boudica --Hypatia --Empress Theodora --Wu Chao --Murasaki Shikibu --Sultana Razia --Christine de Pizan --Joan of Arc --Queen Isabella I --La Malinche --Catherine de Médicis --Queen Elizabeth I --Mary Queen of Scots --Artemisia Gentileschi --Judith Leyster --Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz --Catherine the Great --Mary Wollstonecraft --Deborah Sampson --Jane Austen --Emma Willard --Sacajawea --Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké --La Pola --Sojourner Truth --Catharine Beecher --Dorothea Dix --Margaret Fuller Harriet Beecher Stowe --Harriet Tubman --Elizabeth Cady Stanton --Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë --Maria Mitchell --Clara Schumann --Queen Victoria --Susan B. Anthony --Florence Nightingale --Elizabeth Blackwell --Clara Barton --Antoinette Brown Blackwell --Mary Harris "Mother" Jones --Lakshmi Bai --Emily Dickinson --Louisa May Alcott --Tz'u-hsi --Queen Liliuokalani --Sarah Bernhardt --Mary Cassatt --Sarah Winnemucca --Carry Nation --Louisa Lawson --Olive Schreiner --Fannie Farmer --Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Jane Addams --Ida B. Wells --Beatrix Potter --Marie Curie --Sophia Hayden --Alexandra David-Neel --Emma Goldman --Rosa Luxemburg --Maria Montessori --Alexandra Kollontai --Qiu Jin --Mary McLeod Bethune --Huda Shaarawi --Margaret Sanger --Helen Keller --Anna Pavlova --Virginia Woolf --Rose Schneiderman --Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel --Eleanor Roosevelt --Georgia O'Keeffe --Gabriela Mistral --Ichikawa Fusae --Bessie Smith --Martha Graham --Marian Anderson --Amelia Earhart --Golda Meir --Zora Neale Hurston --Margaret Mead --Margaret Bourke-White --Greta Garbo --Frida Kahlo --Rachel Carson --Simone de Beauvoir --Mother Teresa --Mildred "Babe" Didrikson --Mary Leakey --Indira Gandhi --Jessie Lopez De La Cruz --Eva Perón --Betty Friedan --Diane Arbus --Shirley Chisholm --Margaret Thatcher --Nguyen Thi Binh --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis --Violeta Chamorro --Toni Morrison --Corazon Aquino --Barbara Jordan --Valentina Tereshkova --Marian Wright Edelman --Wilma Rudolph --Billie Jean King --Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams --Antonia Novello --Aung San Suu Kyi --Wilma Mankiller --Eka Esu-Williams --Rigoberta Menchú

    But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of "emotional labor." She vividly describes from a humanist and feminist perspective the process of estrangement from personal feelings and its role as an "occupational hazard" for one-third of America's workforce.

    This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world's most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the debates of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women's movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression and labor in which women and other minorities produce power and pleasure.Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, sex educator, and feminist pornographer. She is the author of seven books including The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and Opening Up. She runs the adult film production company Smart Ass Productions and is an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment.Celine Parreñas Shimizu is an associate professor of film and performance studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and founding editor of Camera Obscura. She is the author of Straitjacket Sexualities and the 2009 Cultural Studies Book Award winning, The Hypersexuality of Race.Mireille Miller-Young is assistant professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her forthcoming book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work, and Pornography (Duke University Press) examines African American women’s sex work in the porn industry.

    In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage movement. Calling themselves "Silent Sentinels," she and her followers were the first protestors to picket the White House. Arrested and jailed, they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed and brutalized. Years before Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent resistance, and decades before civil rights demonstrations, Alice Paul practiced peaceful civil disobedience in the pursuit of equal rights for women.With her daring and unconventional tactics, Alice Paul eventually succeeded in forcing President Woodrow Wilson and a reluctant U.S. Congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Here at last is the inspiring story of the young woman whose dedication to women's rights made that long-held dream a reality."Alice Paul was a visionary and a pioneer. Her struggle for women's rights was built on the premise that no society or nation can reach its full potential if half of the population is left behind." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton

    This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Brontë sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.

    Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.

    This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South — their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.

    Explains what patriarchy is (and isn't), how it works, and what gets in the way of understanding and doing something about it.

    She then looks at the historical practices of Chinese foot binding and Medieval European witch burning from a radical feminist perspective. The book's final section discusses the concept of androgyny within various cultures' creation myths and argues for "the development of a new kind of human being and a new kind of human community" free from gender and gendered roles.

    The X-rated intellectual and author of Susie Bright's Sexual Reality takes on Dan Quayle, Madonna, and the GOP in a collection of previously published essays, interviews, and reviews that also includes new writing by the sexpert.

    She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproduction for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal. In the wake of recent headlines bemoaning women's squandered fertility and the ongoing debate over the appropriate role of genetics in the future of humanity, The Dialectic of Sex is revealed as remarkably relevant to today's society, a testament to Shulamith Firestone's startlingly prescient vision.

    The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century.With a foreword by Jacques Derrida, a preface by Cixous herself, and first-class editorial material by Susan Sellers, The Helene Cixous Reader is destined to become a key text of feminist writing.

    Included are discussions of Jane Austen, George Sand, Colette, Simone Weil, and Virginia Woolf.