Katie King examines the development of U.S. feminist theory, tracing its inception, rocky development, and internecine struggles. She argues that the subject matter of women's studies is cultural studies."This book should definitively alter the map of contemporary feminist theory in the U.S. and abroad... " Donna Landry
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionFirst, a Story: What Is an Object?1What Counts as Theory? Travels through Several Histories of U.S. Feminism12Writing Conversations in Feminist Theory: Investments in Producing Identities and Struggling with Time553The Politics of the Oral and the Written: "Poem," "Story," and "Song" as Writing Technologies in the Apparatus for the Production of Feminist Culture924Lesbianism as Feminism's Magical Sign: Contests for Meaning and U.S. Women's Movements, 1968-1972 (1986)1245Producing Sex, Theory, and Culture: Gay/Straight ReMappings in Contemporary Feminism (1990)1386Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory (1992)151Notes165Index186