Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration

General Introduction by S.Gillis and G.Howie & R.Munford Part One: GENEALOGIES Introduction by J.Spencer 1. ´It´s All About the Benjamins´: Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States by L.Heywood & J.Drake. 2. Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness by E.K.Garrison 3. Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism by G.Howie & A.Tauchert 4. "Feminists Love a Utopia": Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism by L.Sanders 5. Inverview with Elaine Showalter by S.Gillis & R.Munford Part Two: SEX AND GENDER Introduction by M.Shildrick 6. Kristeva and the Transmissions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues by M.Orr 7. On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism by A.Stone 8. "You´re Not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?": The Question of Male Embodied Feminist Criticism by A.Shail 9. Finding Ourselves: Postmodern Identities and the Transgender Movement by E.Davies 10. Qu(e)erying Pornography and Contesting Identity Politics in Feminism by W.O´Brien Part Three: POPULAR CULTURE Introduction by P.Church Gibson 11. "Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss": Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power by R.Munford 12. (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and "Ally McBeal" by K.Gorton 13. "Kicking Ass is Comfort Food": Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon by P.Pender 14. "Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma´am!": The New Public/Private Female Action Hero by C.L.Stasia 15. Neither Cyborg Nor Goddess: The (Im)Possibilities of cyberfeminism by S.Gillis Part Four: CHALLENGES Introduction by N.Ward Jouve 16. Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour by M.N.Chakraborty 17. Muslim Feminisms in the Third Wave: A Reflective Inquiry by S.Saadallah 18. Ecofeminism as Third Wave Feminism? Essentialism, Activism and the Academy by N.Moore 19. What Happened to Global Sisterhood? Writing and Reading ´the´ Postcolonial Woman by D.deCaires Narain 20. Global Feminisms, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production by W.Woodhull