Selected Readings in Feminism (女性主義經典選讀)

Translations of and Introduction to 51 Important Feminist Works for Chinese Language Readers

 

Edited by Yenlin Ku (顧燕翎)

Published by Owl Publishing House (貓頭鷹出版社), Taipei (2022)

 

 Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Female Consciousness Awakened　

1. from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

2. from On the Subjection of Women, John S. Mill and Harriet Taylor (1861)  

3. from “The Enfranchisement of Women”, Harriet Taylor (1851) 

4. from A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf (1929) 

5. Introduction to The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963) 

6. from Sexual Politics, Kate Millett (1970)  

7. from Close to Home, Christine Delphy (1984) 

Chapter 2. Analysis of Sex/Gender Roles   

 8. Introduction to Sex and Temperament, Margaret Mead (1950) 

 9. Introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

10. “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Helene Cixous (1975)

11. Introduction to Toward a New Psychology of Women, Jean B. Miller (1976)

12. Introduction to The Mermaid and the Minotaur—Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise, Dorothy Dinnerstein (1976)

13. Of Woman Born , Adrienne Rich (1977)

14. Introduction to The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow (1978)

15. Introduction to In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan (1982)

 

Chapter 3. Women’s Bodies under Patriarchal Surveillance         

16. “The Traffic in Women,” Gale Rubin (1974)

17. “A Feminist’s Interpretation of Rape: Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape,” Yeh Lu (2013)

18. Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin (1988)

19. The Sexual Contract, Carole Pateman (1988)     

20. “Connecting Reproductive and Sexual Liberalism,” Janice Raymond (1993)  

21. “Foot Binding, Unbinding and Body Politics,” Y. Miao (2013)

 

Chapter 4. Sexuality and Lesbianism     

22. from The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone (1970)

23. from The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde (1978)

24. Introduction to ”Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich (1980)

25. Introduction to ”One Is Not Born a Woman” and “The Category of Sex” by Monique Wittig (1993)

26. Thinking sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of Sexual Politic, Gayle Rubin (1984)

 

Chapter 5. Where We Started    

27. Declaration of Sentiments, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848)

28. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth (1851)

29. “Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring,” Sojourner Truth (1867)   

30. NOW 1968 Bill of Rights, NOW (1968)

31.”The Woman-Identified Woman, Radicalesbians (1970) 

32.The Beijing Declaration, UN (1995)

33. African Feminist Charter, African Feminist Forum (2006)　   

 

Chapter 6. Brave New World 

34.Ｗomen and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898)

35. from Communism and the Family, Alexandra Kollontai (1920)

36. Introduction to “Globalization of the Economy and Women’s Work in a Sustainable Society” by Maria Mies (1998)

37. ”New Developments in Feminist Economics—Globalization and Care Work and Viewing Development and Climate Change from a Perspective of Freedom and Belonging,” Chao-Zhong Cui (2011)

38. ”Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development,” Melinda French Gates (2014)                                 

Chapter 7. Revisiting and Re-structuring Feminist Theories            

39. “The Tyranny of Structurelessness ,” Jo Freeman (1970)

40. Introduction to “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union,” Heidi Hartmann (1979)

41.”Review of ‘Under Western Eyes’ (1991) and ‘Under Western Eyes Revisited’(2003) by Chandra Mohanty,” S. Lai (2020)

42. “Deconstructing Deconstructionism (or, Whatever Happened to Feminist Studies?)” Kathleen Barry 1991

43. “French Feminism: An Imperialist Invention,” Christine Delphy (1996)

44. “Recognizing and Undoing: Undoing Gender by Judith Butler ,” J. Kuo (2004)

45. “ A Critical Review of Neoliberal feminism,” K. Wei (2022)               

 

Chapter 8. Strategies and Actions 

46. from Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, bell hooks (1989)

47. from Yearing: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics,bell hooks (1990)

48. from Revolution from Within: a Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem (1992)

49. “Pornography and Global Sexual Exploitation of Women,” Kathleen Barry (1996)

50. Introduction to “The Politics of the Toilet: a feminist Response to the Campaign to ‘Degender’ a Women’s Space,” Sheila Jefferys (2014)                     

51. “Transgender Movement and the Case for Women’s Toilet,” Z. Wu (2016)  

 

Supplementaries

1.from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Friedrich Engels (1884)

2.from Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory, Sigmund Freud (1905)

3.“Oedipus Complex and the Confucian Virtue of Filial Piety,” Youqin Wang (1984)