Famous Feminists A-B

Famous Feminists A-B

Carol Adams: The Pornography of Meat & Sexual Politics of Meat

Author of the groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and several other books. Carol's work is widely cited, anthologized and used as a text in college courses in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Her work is featured in an award-winning documentary, A Cow at My Table. A rock group, Consolidated, devoted one track of their CD Friendly Fascism to The Sexual Politics of Meat.

Linda Martin Alcoff: Cultural Feminism and Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory

Works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of race. Her books include Feminist Epistemologies (Routledge, 1993), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell, 1996), Epistemology: The Big Questions (Basil Blackwell, 1998), and Thinking From the Underside of History (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

Paula Gunn Allen: Kochinnenako in the Academy: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale

Laguna, Sioux and Lebanese, is a poet, novelist and critic. She has taught at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, the College of San Mateo, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, where she was the director of the Native American Studies Program, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the University of California at Berkeley, where she was Professor of Native American / Ethnic Studies. She is now Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/paula/

Gloria Anzaldua: La Consciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Helped make visible the literature of women of color in the USA. She is a chicana lesbian-feminist, poet, writer, and cultural theorist. Ms. Anzaldúa was born September 26, 1942 in Jesus Maria of the Valley, Texas in a family of Mexican immigrants. She graduated from college as the only one from her neighborhood and started her work as teacher of children from migrant families. Her book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987), which combines Spanish and English poetry, memoir, and historical analysis, was chosen as one of the 38 Best Books of 1987 by the Literary Journal. In addition to winning an NEA Fiction Award, Ms. Anzaldua was awared the 1991 Lesbian Rights Award and the Sappho Award of Distinction in 1992.

Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction and Chapter 12 from The Second Sex

Born and educated in Paris, Simone de Beauvoir was among the first women permitted to complete a program of study at the École Normale Supérieure. Through her lifelong friendship with Sartre, she contributed significantly to the development and expression of existentialist philosophy. In Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), de Beauvoir traced the development of male oppression through historical, literary, and mythical sources, attributing its contemporary effects on women to a systematic objectification of the male as a positive norm. This consequently identifies the female as Other, which commonly leads to a loss of social and personal identity, the variety of alienation unique to the experience of women. Her works of fiction focus on women who take responsibility for themselves by making life-altering decisions, and the many volumes of her own autobiography exhibit the application of similar principles in reflection on her own experiences.

Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women: The Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action

The declaration reaffirmed the 1995 Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women, the right to self-determination, and the cultural connection to land and territory. Recognizing the effects of colonialism and neo-liberal economic policies, the declaration included fourteen broad recommendations relating to issues such as the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which governments refused to address, despite its inclusion in the Beijing Platform), poverty, health, and the World Conference Against Racism.

Bikini Kill: Riot Grrrl Philosophy, Revolutions from Within

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2822/is_1_26/ai_106473999

Harry Brod: To Be a Man or Not to Be a Man

Rita Mae Brown

Perhaps America's most successful modern lesbian writer, Brown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania and adopted and raised by her mother's cousin. Brown lived with that family for some time in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and later attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. After being expelled for civil rights activism, she hitchhiked to New York City. There she earned a B.A. degree from New York University and a certificate in cinematography from the School of Visual Arts. At NYU Brown co-founded the Student Homophile League. She was a member of the radical feminist group the Redstockings and the National Organization for Women. She left NOW in 1970, angered at their refusal to address lesbian issues and focused on recruiting women to join Radicalesbians. In 1973, while living in Washington, D.C. as part of the Furies separatist collective, she earned a Ph.D. from the Institute for Policy and published her breakthrough novel Rubyfruit Jungle.

Charlotte Bunch: Human Rights Quarterly

Judith Butler: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Professor of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. Indeed, she is described in alt.culture as "one of the superstars of '90s academia, with a devoted following of grad students nationwide". (A fanzine, Judy!, was published in 1993)

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