Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration

✍ Scribed by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, Rebecca Munford (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
‘Feminists Love a Utopia’....Pages 3-15
On the Genealogy of Women....Pages 16-29
Kristeva and the Trans-Missions of the Intertext....Pages 30-45
Feminist Dissonance....Pages 46-58
Transgender Feminism....Pages 59-70
Theorising the Intermezzo....Pages 71-85
‘You’re Not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?’....Pages 86-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Wa(i)ving It All Away....Pages 101-113
‘It’s All About the Benjamins’....Pages 114-124
Imagining Feminist Futures....Pages 125-141
A Different Chronology....Pages 142-155
Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production....Pages 156-167
Neither Cyborg Nor Goddess....Pages 168-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism....Pages 185-197
‘Also I Wanted So Much To Leave For the West’....Pages 198-211
(Un)fashionable Feminists....Pages 212-223
‘Kicking Ass Is Comfort Food’....Pages 224-236
‘My Guns Are in the Fendi!’....Pages 237-249
Sexing It Up?....Pages 250-265
‘Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss’....Pages 266-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Interview with Luce Irigaray....Pages 283-291
Interview with Elaine Showalter....Pages 292-297
Afterword: Feminist Waves....Pages 298-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-310

✦ Subjects

Political Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Gender Studies; Feminism