Hazel Johnstone & Mary Evans 
The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory 

At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.

The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering:

• Epistemology and marginality


• Literary, visual and cultural representations


• Sexuality


• Macro and microeconomics of gender


• Conflict and peace. 

The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think ‘theoretically’ is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding.



With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism
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It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.

Table of Content

Introduction – Mary Evans

PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY

Introduction – Sumi Madhok & Mary Evans

Feminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality – Lorraine Code

Natural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge – Astrida Neimanis

Feminist Auto/Biography – Gayle Letherby

Power in Feminist Research Processes – Sabine Grenz

Women’s ‘Lived Experience’: Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Present – Sonia Kruks

What Do Women Want? Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalysis – Kirsten Campbell

Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity – Sian Hawthorne

Religion, Feminist Theory and Epistemology – Mary Evans

PART TWO: LITERARY, VISUAL AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION

Introduction – Sadie Wearing

What Stories Make Worlds, What Worlds Make Stories: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake – Samantha Mc Bean

On Maternal Listening: Experiments in Sound and the Mother- Daughter Relation in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce – Amber Jacobs

The Space of a Movement: Life-Writing Against Racism – Vron Ware

Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory – Anna Reading

Feminism and Pornography – Karen Boyle

Representing Women in Popular Culture – Imelda Whelehan

‘It′s all about shopping’: The Role of Consumption in the Feminization of Journalism – Hatty Oliver

PART THREE: SEXUALITY

Introduction – Clare Hemmings

(It’s not all) Kylie concerts, exotic cocktails and gossip: The Appearance of Sexuality through ′Gay′ Asylum in the UK – Emma Spruce

Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality – Gilbert Caluya, Jennifer Germon & Elspeth Probyn

Thinking Sex Materially: Marxist, Socialist, and Related Feminist Approaches – Rosemary Hennessy

Transnational Black Feminisms, Womanisms and Queer of Color Critiques – Michelle Wright

States of Sexuality: Theorizing Sexuality, Gender and Governance – Jyoti Puri

The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: Gender, Rights and Representation – Rutvica Andrijasevic

Sexuality, Subjectivity and… Political Economy? – Clare Hemmings

PART FOUR: ECONOMY – Ania Plomien

Homo Oeconomicus and ′His′ Impact on Gendered Societies – Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

Integrating Gender in Economic Analysis – Maria S. Floro

Essentially Quantified? Towards a More Feminist Modeling Strategy – Wendy Sigle-Rushton

Feminist Perspectives on Care: Theory, Practice and Policy – Susan Himmelweit & Ania Plomien

Power, Privilege and Precarity: the Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Inequality – Robin Dunford & Diane Perrons

Macroeconomic Governance in the European Union: Reconfiguration of Power Structures and Erosion of Gender Equality – Elisabeth Klatzer & Christa Schlager

Gender, Class and Location in the Global Economy – Drucilla Barker & Edith Kuiper

Social Protection – Corina Rodriguez-Enriquez

PART FIVE: WAR, VIOLENCE AND MILITARISATION – Marsha Henry

Female Combatants, Feminism and ′Just′ War – Laura Sjoberg

Soldiering on: Pushing Militarized Masculinities into New Territory – Jane L. Parpart & Kevin Partridge

Gender, Genocide, and Gendercide – Adam Jones

Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings – Maria Eriksson Baaz & Maria Stern

(En) Gendered Terror: Feminist Approaches to Political Violence – Swati Parashar

About the author

Dr Sadie Wearing is Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at London School of Economics.