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.

Introduction - Mary EvansPART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITYIntroduction - Sumi Madhok & Mary EvansFeminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality - Lorraine CodeNatural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge - Astrida NeimanisFeminist Auto/Biography - Gayle LetherbyPower in Feminist Research Processes - Sabine GrenzWomen's "Lived Experience": Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Present - Sonia KruksWhat Do Women Want? Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalysis - Kirsten CampbellEntangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity - Sian HawthorneReligion, Feminist Theory and Epistemology - Mary EvansPART TWO: LITERARY, VISUAL AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONIntroduction - Sadie WearingWhat Stories Make Worlds, What Worlds Make Stories: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake - Samantha McBeanOn Maternal Listening: Experiments in Sound and the Mother- Daughter Relation in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce - Amber JacobsThe Space of a Movement: Life-Writing Against Racism - Vron WareMaking Memory Work for Feminist Theory - Anna ReadingFeminism and Pornography - Karen BoyleRepresenting Women in Popular Culture - Imelda Whelehan"It's all about shopping": The Role of Consumption in the Feminization of Journalism - Hatty OliverPART THREE: SEXUALITYIntroduction - Clare Hemmings(It's not all) Kylie concerts, exotic cocktails and gossip: The Appearance of Sexuality through 'Gay' Asylum in the UK - Emma SpruceGlobalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality - Gilbert Caluya, Jennifer Germon & Elspeth Probyn Thinking Sex Materially: Marxist, Socialist, and Related Feminist Approaches - Rosemary HennessyTransnational Black Feminisms, Womanisms and Queer of Color Critiques - Michelle WrightStates of Sexuality: Theorizing Sexuality, Gender and Governance - Jyoti PuriThe Figure of the Trafficked Victim: Gender, Rights and Representation - Rutvica AndrijasevicSexuality, Subjectivity and... Political Economy? - Clare HemmingsPART FOUR: ECONOMY - Ania PlomienHomo Oeconomicus and 'His' Impact on Gendered Societies - Edeltraud Hanappi-EggerIntegrating Gender in Economic Analysis - Maria S. FloroEssentially Quantified? Towards a More Feminist Modeling Strategy - Wendy Sigle-RushtonFeminist Perspectives on Care: Theory,Practice and Policy - Susan Himmelweit & Ania Plomien Power, Privilege and Precarity: the Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Inequality - Robin Dunford & Diane PerronsMacroeconomic Governance in the European Union: Reconfiguration of Power Structures and Erosion of Gender Equality - Elisabeth Klatzer & Christa SchlagerGender, Class and Location in the Global Economy - Drucilla Barker & Edith KuiperSocial Protection - Corina Rodriguez-EnriquezPART FIVE: WAR, VIOLENCE AND MILITARISATION - Marsha HenryFemale Combatants, Feminism and 'Just' War - Laura SjobergSoldiering on: Pushing Militarized Masculinities into New Territory - Jane L. Parpart & Kevin PartridgeGender, Genocide, and Gendercide - Adam JonesUnderstanding Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings - Maria Eriksson Baaz & Maria Stern(En) Gendered Terror: Feminist Approaches to Political Violence - Swati Parashar