The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory

Mary Evans · Clare Hemmings · Marsha Henry · Hazel Johnstone · Sumi Madhok · Ania Plomien · Sadie Wearing

08/2014 · SAGE

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At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.

The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering:

• Epistemology and marginality
• Literary, visual and cultural representations
• Sexuality
• Macro and microeconomics of gender
• Conflict and peace.

The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think ‘theoretically’ is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding.

With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism.

It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.

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Mary Evans is Professor of Gender at London School of Economics.

Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory at London School of Economics.

Marsha Henry is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at London School of Economics.

Hazel Johnstone is Departmental Manager of the Gender Institute at London School of Economics.

Sumi Madhok is Associate Professor at the LSE Gender Institute.

Ania Plomien is Assistant Professor in Gender and Social Science at London School of Economics.

Dr Sadie Wearing is Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at London School of Economics.