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Feminist Theory (Ph.D. reading list)

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Book Apr 1, 1980
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
  • by Carolyn Merchant
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women. (From Goodreads)
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Book 1977
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This Sex Which is Not One
  • by Luce Irigaray
In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of
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Book 1981
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
  • by bell hooks
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the recent women's move
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Book May 1, 1980
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
  • by Julia Kristeva
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others. . . Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the curr
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Book 1981
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Women, Race & Class
  • by Angela Y. Davis
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. "Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard." —The New York Times Angela Davis provides
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Book 1984
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
  • by bell hooks
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman, bel
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Book 1985
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Reflections on Gender and Science
  • by Evelyn Fox Keller
Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and methods of scientific enquiry? This groundbreaking work explores the possibilities of a gender-free science and the conditions that could make such a possi
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Book Jan 1, 1986
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The Science Question in Feminism
  • by Sandra G. Harding
Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question, challenging the intellectual and social foundations of
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Book 1987
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The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
  • by Emily Martin
A bold reappraisal of science and society, The Woman in the Body explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. Contrasting the views of medical science with those of ordinary women from diverse social and economic backgrounds, anthropologist Emily Martin presents
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Book Oct 1, 1989
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Feminism and Science
..". thoughtful critiques of the myriad issues between women and science." --Belles Lettres "Outstanding collection of essays that raise the fundamental questions of gender in what we have been taught are objective sciences." --WATERwheel ..". all of the articles are well written, informative, and
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Book Jan, 1989
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Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference
  • by Diana Fuss
In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, and with the politics of gay identity. (From Goodreads)
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Book 1989
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Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
  • by Trinh T. Minh-ha
... methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious... " --Text and Performance Quarterly Woman, 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
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