Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-12
‘It’s All About the Benjamins’: Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States....Pages 13-23
Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness....Pages 24-36
Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism....Pages 37-48
‘Feminists Love a Utopia’: Collaboration, Conflict, and the Futures of Feminism....Pages 49-59
Interview with Elaine Showalter....Pages 60-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-71
Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues....Pages 72-84
On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism....Pages 85-96
‘You’re Not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?’ The Question of Male-Embodied Feminism....Pages 97-109
Finding Ourselves: Postmodern Identities and the Transgender Movement....Pages 110-121
Qu(e)erying Pornography: Contesting Identity Politics in Feminism....Pages 122-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-141
‘Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss’: Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power....Pages 142-153
‘Kicking Ass is Comfort Food’: Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon....Pages 154-163
‘Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma’am!’: The New Public/Private Female Action Hero....Pages 164-174
Neither Cyborg Nor Goddess: The (Im)Possibilities of Cyberfeminism....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-196
Wa(i)ving it All Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge in Feminisms of Colour....Pages 197-204
Muslim Feminism in the Third Wave: A Reflective Inquiry....Pages 205-215
Ecofeminism as Third Wave Feminism? Essentialism, Activism and the Academy....Pages 216-226
What Happened to Global Sisterhood? Writing and Reading ‘the’ Postcolonial Woman....Pages 227-239
Front Matter....Pages 240-251
Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production....Pages 197-204
Back Matter....Pages 252-262
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