Feminist Theory Reader

The sixth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader provides a general introduction to feminist theory, both in the United States and globally.

In their balance of foundational and contemporary texts, the editors situate feminist theory within intersectional and transnational social justice movements and uphold the book’s challenge to readers to rethink the ways in which gender and its multiple intersections are configured by complex, overlapping, and asymmetrical configurations of power. The new edition furthers its commitment to the voices of transnational feminist scholars throughout the book’s four central sections and addresses an array of topics of contemporary concern, including the care crisis, reproductive justice, indigenous feminisms, global civil society, settler colonialism, violence, prison abolition, neoliberal feminisms, transfeminism, and disability studies. A substantially revised final section considers solidarity strategies in contemporary times to tie together a new edition that shares theories of feminism and the voices and experiences of women across time and place, drawing from them important lessons for the present day.

Enriching its foundation with newer essays and expanded scope, the Feminist Theory Reader delves even deeper into the paradigmatic concepts of the field and cements its place as a touchstone for feminist scholars, teachers, and students of women’s and gender studies for many years to come.

Carole R. McCann is Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research interests include transnational feminist science studies, reproductive justice movements, and the history of demography and eugenics.

Emek Ergun is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is an activist feminist translator and her most recent translations are of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men.

Seung-kyung Kim is Korea Foundation Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Director of the Institute for Korean Studies in the School of Global and International Studies, and Affiliate faculty of the Gender Studies Department at Indiana University-Bloomington.