Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration

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

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Edition: 2nd
• 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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 16
Introduction......Page 22
Part I: Generations and Genealogies......Page 36
1 ‘Feminists Love a Utopia’: Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism......Page 38
2 On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism......Page 51
3 Kristeva and the Trans-Missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues......Page 65
4 Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism......Page 81
5 Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question......Page 94
6 Theorising the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism......Page 106
7 ‘You’re Not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?’: The Question of Male-Embodied Feminism......Page 121
Part II: Locales and Locations......Page 134
8 Wa(i)ving It All Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge in Feminisms of Colours......Page 136
9 ‘It’s All About the Benjamins’: Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States......Page 149
10 Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism......Page 160
11 A Different Chronology: Reflections on Feminism in Contemporary Poland......Page 177
12 Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production......Page 191
13 Neither Cyborg Nor Goddess: The (Im)Possibilities of Cyberfeminism......Page 203
Part III: Politics and Popular Culture......Page 218
14 Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness......Page 220
15 ‘Also I Wanted So Much To Leave for the West’: Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave......Page 233
16 (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and Ally McBeal......Page 247
17 ‘Kicking Ass Is Comfort Food’: Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon......Page 259
18 ‘My Guns Are in The Fendi!’: The Postfeminist Female Action Hero......Page 272
19 Sexing It Up?: Women, Pornography and Third Wave Feminism......Page 285
20 ‘Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss’: Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power......Page 301
In Dialogue......Page 316
21 Interview with Luce Irigaray......Page 318
22 Interview with Elaine Showalter......Page 327
Afterword: Feminist Waves......Page 333
C......Page 339
F......Page 340
G......Page 341
M......Page 342
R......Page 343
W......Page 344
Z......Page 345