Description: Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction I. Feminist Critiques Within The Disciplines 1. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, Emily Martin 2. Feminist Skepticism and the "Maleness" of Philosophy, Susan Bordo 3. Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience, Kathleen Canning II. The Politics Of Identity And Experience 4. The Evidence of Experience, Joan Scott 5. Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and "Other" in Living and Writing the Text, Jayati Lal 6. The Construction of Marginal Identities: Working-Class Girls of Algerian Descent in a French School, Catherine Raissiguier III. The Social Construction Of Difference 7. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins 8. Eating the Other, 'Black Looks: Race and Representation', bell hooks 9. Feminist Criticism, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and the Politics in Color America IV. Power And Resistance 10. Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault, Monique Deveaux 11. Islam and Patriarchy: A Comparative Perspective, Deniz Kandiyoti V. Discourses Of The Body 12. Embodied Geographies: Subjectivity and Materiality in the Work of Ana Mendieta, Anne Raine 13. The Power of "Positive" Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis, Rayna Rapp 14. The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris VI. Social Policy and Female Agency 15. Small Happinesses: The Feminist Struggle to Integrate Social Research with Social Activism, Roberta Spalter-Roth & Heidi Hartmann 16. From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS, Cindy Patton Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and Politics of Solidarity, Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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