This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.

Table of Contents

• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Introduction - Mary Evans
• PART I EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY - Sumi Madhok Mary Evans
• Preface
• 1 Feminist Epistemology and the Politics of Knowledge: Questions of Marginality - Lorraine Code
• 2 Natural Others? On Nature, Culture and Knowledge - Astrida Neimanis
• 3 Feminist Auto/Biography - Gayle Letherby
• 4 Power in Feminist Research Processes - Sabine Grenz
• 5 Women's ‘Lived Experience’: Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Present - Sonia Kruks
• 6 What do Women Want? Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalytic Theory - Kirsten Campbell
• 7 Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion and the Obligation to Alterity - Sîan Hawthorne
• 8 Religion, Feminist Theory and Epistemology - Mary Evans
• PART II LITERARY, VISUAL AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION Sadie Wearing
• Preface
• 9 What Stories Make Worlds, What Worlds Make Stories: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake - Sam McBean
• 10 On Maternal Listening: Experiments in Sound and the Mother–Daughter Relation in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce - Amber Jacobs
• 11 The Space of a Movement: Life-Writing Against Racism - Vron Ware
• 12 Making Memory Work for Feminist Theory - Anna Reading
• 13 Feminism and Pornography - Karen Boyle
• 14 Representing Women in Popular Culture - Imelda Whelehan
• 15 ‘It's all About Shopping’: The Role of Consumption in the Feminization of Journalism - Hatty Oliver
• PART III SEXUALITY - Clare Hemmings
• Preface
• 16 (It's not all) Kylie Concerts, Exotic Cocktails and Gossip: the Appearance of Sexuality through ‘Gay’ Asylum in the UK - Emma Spruce
• 17 Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality - Gilbert Caluya Jennifer Germon Elspeth Probyn
• 18 Thinking Sex Materially: Marxist, Socialist, and Related Feminist Approaches - Rosemary Hennessy
• 19 Transnational Black Feminisms, Womanisms and Queer of Color Critiques - Michelle M. Wright
• 20 States’ Sexualities: Theorizing Sexuality, Gender and Governance - Jyoti Puri
• 21 The Figure of the Trafficked Victim: Gender, Rights and Representation - Rutvica Andrijasevic
• 22 Sexuality, Subjectivity … and Political Economy? - Clare Hemmings
• PART IV ECONOMY - Ania Plomien
• Introduction
• 23 ‘Homo Economicus’ and ‘His’ Impact on Gendered Societies - Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
• 24 Integrating Gender in Economic Analysis - Maria S. Floro
• 25 Essentially Quantified? Towards a More Feminist Modeling Strategy - Wendy Sigle-Rushton
• 26 Feminist Perspectives on Care: Theory, Practice and Policy - Susan Himmelweit Ania Plomien
• 27 Power, Privilege and Precarity: The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Inequality - Robin Dunford Diane Perrons
• 28 Feminist Perspectives on Macroeconomics: Reconfiguration of Power Structures and Erosion of Gender Equality through the New Economic Governance Regime in the European Union - Elisabeth Klatzer Christa Schlager
• 29 Gender, Class and Location in the Global Economy - Drucilla K. Barker Edith Kuiper
• 30 Social Protection - Corina Rodríguez Enríquez
• PART V WAR, VIOLENCE AND MILITARIZATION - Marsha Henry
• Introduction
• 31 Female Combatants, Feminism and Just War - Laura Sjoberg
• 32 Soldiering on: Pushing Militarized Masculinities into New Territory - Jane Parpart Kevin Partridge
• 33 Gender, Genocide and Gendercide - Adam Jones
• 34 Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings - Maria Eriksson Baaz Maria Stern
• 35 (En)gendered Terror: Feminist Approaches to Political Violence - Swati Parashar