Global Women's & LGBTQ+ Issues - SOAN/GSWS 370 - Steindorf

An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century, covering Initial Articulations of the Woman Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker; Patricia Hill Collins), French Feminism (Luce Irigaray; Helene Cixous; Monique Wittig; Julia Kristeva), Materialist Feminism (Gayle Rubin; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Queer Theory (Adrienne Rich; Judith Butler; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Wayne Koestenbaum)."

Approaches sex-trafficking-related theories, research, policies, & practice from neoliberal, abolitionist, feminist, criminological, & sociological perspectives. Confronts competing views of the relationship between pornography, prostitution, & sex trafficking, as well as the contribution of weak social institutions & safety nets to the spread of sex trafficking. Also explores the link between identity-based oppression, societal marginalization, & the risk of victimization.

Offering a wide range of feminist thinking on the topic of violence against women while also examining debates in a number of related areas, this text studies the definition of male violence, the role of sexuality in violence, and the intersection of racism and sexism. The origins of sexual violence, the accountability of perpetrators, and the role of feminist intervention and jurisprudence are some of the issues discussed in this comprehensive analysis of violence that seeks to explain, and ultimately cure, this social epidemic.

An original exploration of how the relationship between society and 'nature' is conceptualized, focusing on theories of social exclusion and difference. A comprehensive overview of feminist and environmental theories of society-environment relations, considering the range of theoretical and political influences on such theorizing such as socialist and Marxist theory amongst others and the turn to post structuralism and postmodernism within the social sciences. Cudworth also develops her own theoretical account for the interrelations between forms of social domination and contributes to important debates with sociology, social theory, feminist theory and environmentalism.

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