Carole R. McCann is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author most recently of Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century.

Seung-kyung Kim is Korea Foundation Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director of the Institute for Korean Studies in the School of Global and International Studies; and Affiliate Faculty of the Gender Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington.

Emek Ergun is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Global Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is also the co-editor of Feminist Translation Studies (Routledge, 2017). She is an activist feminist translator and her most recent translation is of Octavia Butler's Kindred, published in Turkey in 2019.

Preface to the Fifth Edition Acknowledgements Feminist Theory: Local and Global Perspectives - Introduction Section 1: Theorizing Feminist Times and Spaces Box 1 - Simone De Beauvoir - The Other Box 2 - Gayle Rubin - Sex/Gender System Box 3 - Joan Scott - Dimensions of Gender Box 4 - Audre Lorde - Poetry is Not a Luxury & Transformation of Silence Box 5 - Kimberly Crenshaw - Intersectionality Part 1: Mid-twentieth Century Foundations 1. The Day the Mountains Move Yosano Akiko 2. Women's Liberation: Seeing the Revolution Clearly Sara M. Evans 3. Lost Visions of Equality: The Labor Origins of the Next Women's Movement Dorothy Sue Cobble 4. Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements Amrita Basu 5. A Black Feminist Statement The Combahee River Collective 6.La Chicana Elizabeth Martinez 7. Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance Cheryl Clarke 8. Bargaining with Patriarchy Deniz Kandiyoti Part 2: Moving Beyond Binaries and Borders 9. Lost (And Found?) in Translation: Feminisms in Hemispheric Dialogue Claudia de Lima Costa 10. Reweaving the World, Introduction Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein 11. Understanding Reproductive Justice Loretta Ross 12. The Transfeminist Manifesto Emi Koyama 13. Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo Ashwini Tambe Section 2: Theorizing Intersectionality and Difference Box 6 - Adrienne Rich - The Politics of Location Box 7 - Gloria Anzaldúa - Mestiza Consciousness Box 8 - Karl Marx - Historical Materialism Box 9 - Edward Said - Orientalism Box 10 - Walter Mignolo - Decolonization Box 11 - Monique Wittig - The Myth of Woman Part 1: Intersectionality 14. Critical Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana 15. Jennifer C. Nash, Re-thinking Intersectionality 16. Vrushali Patil, From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've Really Come Part 2: Configurations of Difference 17. Heidi Hartmann, The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union 18. Andrea Smith, Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing 19. Lila Abu-Lughod, Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies 20. Mrinalini Sinha, Gender and Nation 21. Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill, Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections Between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy 22. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 23.Raewyn Connell, The Social Organization of Masculinity Part 3. Boundaries and Belongings 24. Donna Kate Rushin, The Bridge Poem 25. June Jordan, Report from the Bahamas 26. Minnie Bruce Pratt, Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart 27. Audre Lorde, I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities 28. Lionel Cantú with Eithne Luibheid and Alexandra Minna Stern, Well Founded Fear: Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 29. Simone Chess, Alison Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson, Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries! 30. Leila Ahmed, The Veil Debate -Again 31. Obioma Nnaemeka, Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 32. Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Settler Xicana: Postcolonial and Decolonial Reflections on Incommensurability SECTION III: Theorizing Feminist Knowledge and Agency Box 12 - Patricia Hill Collins - Matrix of Domination Box 13 - Chandra Talpade Mohanty - "Under Western Eyes" Box 14 - Chela Sandoval - Oppositional Consciousness Box 15 - Michel Foucault - Normalization Box 16 - Judith Butler - The Gender Binary Part One: Standpoints and Situated Knowledges 33. Nancy C.M. Hartsock, The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism 34. Patricia Hill Collins, Defining Black Feminist Thought 35. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles 36. Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 37. Cathy J. Cohen, Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics 38. Sandra Harding, Standpoint Theories: Productively Controversial 39. Cherríe Moraga, The Welder Part Two: Subject Formation and Performativity 40. Lata Mani, Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception 41. Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power 41. Judith Butler, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Part Three: Embodied and Affective Knowledge 42. Alison M. Jaggar, Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology 43. Sara Ahmed, Multiculturalism and the Promise of Happiness 44. Kathy Davis, Reclaiming Women's Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? 45. Bettina Judd, In 2006 I Had an Ordeal with Medicine SECTION IV: Imagine Otherwise/Solidarity Reconsidered Box 17 - Avery Gordon - Imagine Otherwise Box 18 - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - Friction Box 19 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - The Politics of Translation Box 20 - Vandana Shiva - Women's Ecological Struggles Imagine Otherwise 46. Jasbir K. Puar, "I Would Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess": Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory 47. Viviane Namaste, Undoing Theory: The 'Transgender Question' and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory 48. AnaLouise Keating, "I'm a Citizen of the Universe": Gloria Anzaldua's Spiritual Activism as Catalyst for Social Change 49. Nirmala Erevelles, The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and Disability in Wartime Solidarity Reconsidered 50. Breny Mendoza, Transnational Feminisms in Question 51. Na-Young Lee, The Korean Women's Movement of Japanese Military 'Comfort Women': Navigating between Nationalism and Feminism 52. Niamh Moore, Eco/Feminism and Rewriting the End of Feminism: From the Chipko Movement to Clayoquot Sound 53. Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Intimate Labors, Introduction 54. Malika Ndlovu, Out of Now-Here Works Cited Credits Index