About the Editors viiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xviiPart I Introduction 11 Feminist Studies as a Site of Critical Knowledge Production and Praxis 3Nancy A. NaplesPart II Feminist Epistemology and Its Discontents 132 Biological Determinism and Essentialism 15Sheila Greene3 Marxist and Socialist Feminisms 35Elisabeth Armstrong4 Radical and Cultural Feminisms 53Lauren Rosewarne5 Materialist Feminisms 73Bronwyn Winter6 Black Feminism and Womanism 91Rose M. Brewer7 Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry 105Patricia Hill Collins8 Queer, Trans, and Transfeminist Theories 129Ute Bettray9 Postcolonial Feminism 155Umme Al-wazedi10 Feminisms in Comparative Perspective 175Anne Sisson Runyan, Rina Verma Williams, Anwar Mhajne and Crystal Whetstone11 Transnational Feminisms 193Gul Aldikacti MarshallPart III Methodological Diversity 21112 Feminist Methodologies 213Cynthia Deitch13 Feminist Empiricism 231Gina Marie Longo14 Feminist Science Studies 247Samantha M. Archer and A.E. Kohler15 Feminist Economics 265Valeria Esquivel16 Feminist Ethnography 281Dana-Ain Davis and Christa Craven17 Feminist Historiography 301Ariella Rotramel18 Feminism, Gender, and, Popular Culture 321Diane GrossmanPart IV Feminist Praxis 33919 Feminist Pedagogy 341Danielle M. Currier20 Feminist Praxis and Globalization 357Manisha Desai and Koyel Khan21 Feminism and Somatic Praxis 373Gill Wright Miller22 Feminist Health Movements 393Meredeth Turshen and Marci Berger23 Feminist Praxis and Gender Violence 411Claire M. Renzetti and Margaret Campe24 Feminist Political Ecologies in Latin American Context 427Astrid Ulloa25 Feminism and Social Justice Movements 447Molli SpalterIndex 469
Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her publications include over fifty books chapter and journal articles in numerous interdisciplinary and sociological journals. To highlight a few of her works, Nancy Naples is Editor-in-Chief of the five-volume Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016) and she is author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research (2003), Grassroots Warriors: Community Work, Activist Mothering and the War on Poverty (1998) and co-editor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization (with Jennifer Bickham Mendez) and The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men, by Lionel Cantú (with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz).