Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into
forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory.

Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been
transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is
aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.


Author: Lisa Disch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 1088
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.37lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 2.20d
ISBN: 9780199328581

About the Author

Lisa Disch is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mary Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, and Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.