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Entries available in full on this site link to the text. For resources not yet included here, we retain external links where we can identify their original publication addresses; the remaining entries retain their original titles to help you search.
English-edition note: Labels such as “Translation” and “Bilingual” refer to the Chinese resources listed in this 2023 directory. Its publication details and link destinations are retained as given.
I. Introductions to the Feminist Anthology
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Original book: Reading Feminist Theory: From Modernity to Postmodernity, Oxford University Press, 2016
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Original editors: Susan Archer Mann (University of New Orleans) and Ashly Suzanne Patterson (Southeastern Louisiana University)
II. Selections from the Anthology
Chapter One: Doing Feminist Theory
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[Translation] “Woman,” “Feminists,” and “Feminism”
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[Selections in translation] Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education (1979) — 并不是靠学位：女性主义理论和教育（1979）
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[Selections in translation] “Theory as Liberatory Practice,” from Teaching to Transgress—bell hooks
Chapter Two: Liberal Feminism
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[Complete translation] The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
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[Bilingual] Abigail: Never Let All the Power Fall into Husbands’ Hands
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And the Truth Shall Make You Free—A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom (1871)
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[Selections in translation] Municipal Housekeeping (1907)
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[Translation] Now We Can Begin (1919)
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[Translation] On Woman Suffrage (1888)
Chapter Three: Radical Feminism
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[Translation] The BITCH Manifesto (1968) — 婊子／贱人／母狗的宣言（1968）
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[Translation] Lesbians in Revolt (1972) — 反抗中的女同性恋者（1972）
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[Translation] The Master’s Dogs Can Never Undermine Their Master (1984) — Chinese resource headline for Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.”
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[Translation] Redstockings Manifesto (1969)
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[Translation] “Mandra, II” [Lesbian literature]
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The Woman-Identified Woman (1970) [Translation]
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[Selections in translation] If Men Could Menstruate
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[Selections in translation] Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape
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Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections
Chapter Four: Socialist Feminism
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[Poetry translation] I Want You Women Up North to Know
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[Bilingual] The New Colossus (1883)
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[Translation] Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman—Excerpts (1838)
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[Translation] We Have Found That You Still Have Unfinished Work — Chinese resource headline for Rose Schneiderman’s “We Have Found You Wanting.”
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[Bilingual] Bread and Roses (1911)
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[Translation] Women Workers and Mothers (1914)
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[Translation] The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation (1969)
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[Selections in translation] Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women?
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The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology (1987)
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[Translation] The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union
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[Translation] Feminism and the Revolt of Nature (1981)
Chapter Five: Intersectionality
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[Translation] Womanist (1983)
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[Translation] Report from the Bahamas
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[Translation] Lynch Law in America (1900)
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[Translation] Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory
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[Translation] Ain’t I a Woman?
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[Translation] A Black Feminist Statement / The Combahee River Collective Statement
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[Short story] Sweat
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[Bilingual] I Walk in the History of My People — 我走在我族人民的历史中
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[Translation] Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties (1993)
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[Selections in translation] Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990)
Chapter Six: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Queer and Transgender Theories
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[Translation] Trans Woman Manifesto — 跨性别女性宣言
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[Translation] The End of Innocence (1992) — 天真的终结（1992）
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[Translation] Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies (2005) — 酷儿时间性和后现代地理学（2005）
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[Selections in translation] Masculinity without Men: An Introduction to Female Masculinity
Chapter Seven: The Third Wave of Feminism
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[Translation] Open Up This Place! Young Women of Color in Today’s Feminism — Chinese resource headline for the introduction to Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism.
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[Translation] The Global Trade in Filipina Workers (1997)
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[Selections in translation] Women without Class?
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[Translation] “Infinite Layers / Third World?”
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[Translation] Voices of Feminism’s Third Wave: An Introduction to To Be Real
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Sisterhood United as One: Individualism Meets Collectivism in Feminism’s Third Wave — Chinese resource headline for Astrid Henry’s “Solitary Sisterhood: Individualism Meets Collectivity in Feminism’s Third Wave.”
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Unpacking Mother/Daughter Baggage: Reassessing Tensions between Second- and Third-Wave Feminism
Chapters Eight, Nine, and Ten: Feminism and (Anti-)Imperialism and Colonialism
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[Translation] Women’s Rights (1851) — 妇女权利（1851）
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[Translation] On Educated Suffrage
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[Poetry translation] A Cry from an Indian Wife
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[Bilingual] An Indian Girl’s Story, Told to Gilbert Wilson (1921)
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[Translation] A Petition for Hawaiian Women (1899)
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[Translation] Mother’s Day Proclamation (1870)—Against War, a Call for Peace
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[Translation] Indian Citizenship (1878)—The Seizure of Indigenous Lands by Fraud and Force
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[Selections in translation] The Squatter and the Don
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[Translation] American Indian Stories (1921)
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[Translation] Fireweed (2009) — 火草（2009）
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[Translation] Resolutions of the International Congress of Women, 1915 — 1915年国际妇女大会决议
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[Poetry translation] Report from Vietnam on International Women’s Day (1985)
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[Translation] Development, Ecology, and Women (1989)
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[Translation] Oh, Capital!—Life on the Global Assembly Line (1981)
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[Translation] From Tragedy and Injustice to Rights and Empowerment: Accountability in the Economic Realm — 从悲剧和不公正到权利及权力的赋予：经济领域的问责制
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[Translation] Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (1984)
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[Translation] Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (1994)
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[Translation] After the (Collapse of the) Metanarratives of Liberation (1999) — 在解放的元叙事（解体）之后（1999）. The parenthetical “collapse” belongs to the Chinese resource title; the original is “After the Metanarratives of Liberation.”
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[Translation] Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? (2002)
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Internet Philosophy Neighbors (网哲邻人部): [Selections in translation] Towards Transnational Feminisms
III. More—and Also Important
① Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction—The New Fifth Edition
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[Translated excerpt] The Feminist Thought of Beauvoir and Butler: Existentialist and Poststructuralist Feminism
② Key Concepts and Debates in Feminism
English-edition note: This Chinese series title (《女性主义关键概念与论争》) refers to Deborah Cameron’s Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement.
③ An Introduction to Feminist Film
English-edition note: This Chinese series title (《女性主义电影导论》) refers to Mari Ruti’s Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman.
④ Other Feminist Translations
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[Translation] Hating Motherhood
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Feminist Political Philosophy
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[Selections in translation] Butterfly Politics: Gender Literacy (1994)
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[Translation] Why a Materialist Feminism Is (Still) Possible—and Necessary
⑤ Our Work on Political Economy
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[Translation] The Logic of Capital—A Beginner’s Introduction to Marxist Political Economy: Introduction
⑥ Subcultural Criticism and Japanese Literary and Cultural Criticism
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Turning to the Dark Side and Yandere—A Cultural Analysis of the “Mad Woman” in Anime, Part Three — Yandere: a dangerously obsessive lover.
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Happy Hour and Childbearing—Eureka’s Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Special Issue
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From Animality Back to Humanity: The Metaphors and Shortcomings of Beastars
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Storm and Stress: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis [Repost]
IV. Messages from the Translators
Appendix: Selections from Reading Feminist Theory: From Modernity to Postmodernity Already Published in Chinese Translation
This list collects sources for all the anthology selections that we have not translated ourselves but that have already appeared in Chinese translation. Entries generally include the author, book title, a Douban link to the Chinese edition, and its ISBN (International Standard Book Number). Where passages have been translated online, we provide a link to the translation. For selections included in more than one publication, we first list the source mentioned in the notes to Reading Feminist Theory and may then add other sources. Where an e-book exists but no print edition has yet appeared, we provide the relevant link. Please offer corrections and criticism where our collecting and translating fall short.
Chapter Two: Liberal Feminism
- 13. John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1870) — John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (《妇女的屈从地位》), ISBN 9787513570893.
- 16. Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (1894) — Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (《一小时的故事》); translation, Chinese-translation link, ISBN 9780789154798.
- 19. Virginia Woolf, “Shakespeare’s Sister” from Chapters III and VI of A Room of One’s Own (1929) — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (《一间只属于自己的房间》); the Chinese listing specifies Chapters Three and Four, “If Shakespeare Had a Sister” (“假如莎士比亚有个妹妹”); translation, Chinese-translation links one (ISBN 9787201151656) and two (ISBN 9787545569926).
- 20. Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” from Chapter I of A Room of One’s Own (1929) — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (《一间只属于自己的房间》), Chapter One, “A Room of One’s Own”; Chinese-translation links one (ISBN 9787201151656) and two (ISBN 9787532746354).
- 21. Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament” from Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935) — Margaret Mead, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (《三个原始部落的性别与气质》), conclusion, “Sex and Temperament”; Chinese-translation links one (ISBN 9787213001321) and two (ISBN 9789573202783).
- 22. “The Problem That Has No Name” (《无名的问题》), “THE PROBLEM THAT HAS NO NAME” — Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (《女性的奥秘》).
- 24. Carol Gilligan, from In a Different Voice (0982) — Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice (《不同的声音》), ISBN 9787801093028.
Chapter Three: Radical Feminism
- 32. Susan Griffin, “Use” from Woman and Nature: The Roaring inside Her (1978) — Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring inside Her (《女人与自然——她内在的呼号》), “Use”; Douban book record, ISBN 9787536685260.
Chapter Four: Socialist Feminism
- 41. Friedrich Engels, from The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (《家庭、私有制和国家的起源》), ISBN 9787010188768.
- 42. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (《黄色壁纸》), ISBN 9789863811664.
- 43. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898) — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (《女人与经济》).
- 52. Simone de Beauvoir, “The Married Woman,” from The Second Sex (1949) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (《第二性》), Chapter Sixteen, “The Married Woman”; Douban book record, ISBN 9787532763399.
- 54. Nancy Chodorow, “Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering” from The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978) — Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (《母职的再生产——精神分析与性别社会学》), “Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering”, ISBN 9789573071082.
- 60. Donna Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities” from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (《类人猿、赛博格和女人——重新发明自然》); the Chinese listing specifies Chapter Eight, “The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities” (“赛博格宣言和断裂的身份”); Chinese-translation links one (ISBN 9789866525339) and two (ISBN 9787564906962).
Chapter Five: Intersectionality
- 62. Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) — Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (《女奴生平》); Chinese-translation links one (ISBN 9787313124487) and two (ISBN 9780486419312).
Chapter Six: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Queer and Transgender Theories
- 80. Michel Foucault, “Method,” Chapter 2 from The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (1976) — Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (《性史》); the Chinese listing specifies Volume One, Chapter Four, “The Apparatus of Sexual Experience” (“性经验的机制”), Section Two, “Method”, ISBN 9787208057524.
- 81. Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power” (1988) — Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchy” (《福柯、女性气质和父权现代化》); translation: translated passages; A Reader in Feminist Theory (《女权主义理论读本》), Douban, Chapter Four, ISBN 9787563363094.
- 82. Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” (1991) — Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” (《模仿与性别反抗》); translation: original text link; Queer Theory (《酷儿理论》), a collection of translations by Li Yinhe, Douban, ISBN 9787503923470.
- 83. Susan Bordo, “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” from Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993 — Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight (《不能承受之重》); the Chinese listing specifies Part Two, Section Two, “The Body and the Reproduction of Feminism” (“身体和女性主义的再生产”), ISBN 9787214058652.
- 84. Kate Bornstein, from Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (1994) — Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (《性别逃犯：关于男人、女人和其他人》); Gender Is a Caterpillar (《性别是条毛毛虫》), Douban, ISBN 9787513313308; second book-record link, ISBN 9780679757016.
Chapter Seven: The Third Wave of Feminism
Chapter Eight: Feminism and Imperialism in Early Modernity
- 99. Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (1849) — Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (《论公民不服从的义务》); Walden / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (《瓦尔登湖•论公民的不服从义务》), Douban, ISBN 9780679757016.
- 106. Emma Goldman, from Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty (1911) — Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (《无政府主义及其他论文》), Chapter Five; Chinese translation, Douban book record, ISBN 9789869750943.
- 107. Rosa Luxemburg, “Militarism as a Province of Accumulation,” from Chapter 32 of The Accumulation of Capital (1913) — Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (《资本积累论》), Chapter Thirty-Two, “Militarism as a Province of Capital Accumulation”; Douban, unified book number 4002-147; Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital (《帝国主义与资本积累》), Douban, unified book number 4039-54.
- 111. Virginia Woolf, from Three Guineas (1938) — Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (《三枚金币》); Douban book record.
Chapter Nine: Feminism and Imperialism in Late Modernity
Chapter Ten: Feminism and Imperialism in Postmodernity
- 123. Edward W. Said, from Orientalism (1978) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism (《东方学》); Douban book record.
- 125. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1985) — Gayatri Spivak, From Deconstruction to a Critique of Globalization (《从解构到全球化批判》), Chapter Two, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”; translated passages, Douban book record, ISBN 9787301126523.
- 128. Fourth World Conference on Women, “Beijing Declaration” (1995) — Fourth World Conference on Women, “Beijing Declaration” (《北京宣言》); Baidu Baike, “Beijing Declaration” (《北京宣言》).
What makes this anthology distinctive:
From the anthology’s introduction, translated here from the Chinese excerpt. The bracketed notes are those of the Chinese translator.
A central principle of this anthology is that the pursuit of social justice is feminist theory’s reason for being; understanding the political implications of different feminist perspectives is therefore imperative. This emphasis on politics distinguishes the anthology from others that simply arrange feminist readings by topic. We are concerned that when feminist writings are merely set alongside one another, readers find it harder to distinguish their underlying political assumptions, their strategies for social change, and their target groups. This anthology, by contrast, emphasizes the relationship between feminist theory and political practice so that these important distinctions do not become blurred.
Second, the anthology pays particular attention to differences and diversity among feminist voices, visions, and perspectives, which vary with race, class, gender, and global location. Although many other feminist anthologies attend to these important differences among women, this anthology connects these differences in social location to political concerns. A core principle of the anthology is our belief that the particular problems people face in everyday life often reflect their differing standpoints or social locations. Its historical approach will also make clearer how these problems and political concerns have changed over time.
Third, this anthology calls for a broader account of what is usually recognized as theoretical activity, encompassing multiple sites of theory-making both inside and outside the academy. It celebrates not only the value of knowledge of social life, or knowledge gained through everyday living, but also forms of theorizing other than Western forms of abstract logic (Collins, 1990; King, 1990). Alongside more traditional forms of theorizing, the anthology includes biographies, poetry, short stories, magazines, song lyrics, and even animation. In making the case for multiple sites of theorizing, we recognize that “doing theory” extends far beyond classrooms, conference papers, or academic journals, and that alternative forms of theorizing [Chinese translator’s note: Presumably this refers to the biographies, poetry, and so on mentioned above] also represent a “distillation of experience” that can serve the cause of women’s liberation (Lorde, 1984: 38).
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The sixth distinctive feature of this book is that its organization allows readers to see paradigm shifts in feminist thought more clearly. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the theoretical assumptions underlying an entire way of thinking or worldview. We argue that such a shift took place in U.S. feminism between the 1970s and the 1990s, when modern feminist thought was challenged by feminist perspectives turning toward the postmodern. By comparing and contrasting these two modes of social thought, readers will see how their sharply different views of social life, social thought, and political practice are central to some of the major conflicts and debates within feminism today.
Seventh, the anthology devotes three entire chapters and more than thirty readings to colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. Here readers will learn how feminists from the first through the third waves have addressed these subjects, and how feminist thinking about them has changed over time. Because the place we now call the United States of America has been both a colony and a colonizer [Chinese translator’s note: This means that the American empire was first a victim that broke free of its status as a British overseas colony, then became a perpetrator itself by colonizing other regions and peoples], readers will gain a better understanding of how this turbulent history has affected women of different races, classes, sexual orientations, and nationalities.
Finally, many chapters include readings that present feminist critiques of other feminist theoretical perspectives. Uma Narayan’s essay in Chapter One, for instance, shows how a non-Western postcolonial theorist responds to various Western approaches to feminist epistemology. In Chapter Three, an essay by Suzanna shows how a radical feminist critiques queer theory. This enables readers to see not only the strengths of different perspectives but also their weaknesses. The overall aim is to help readers develop the critical analytical skills needed to understand and analyze new social circumstances. These skills help us question conventional wisdom about the countless features of social life that are often taken for granted.