A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism" In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future. hooks speaks to all those in search of true liberation, asking readers to take look at feminism in a new light, to see that it touches all lives. Issuing an invitation to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism-far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite--is indeed for everybody. bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, she is Distinguished Professor of English at City College, City University of New York.

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women who challenge male dominance. And it's compatible with rewarding "the good ones," and singling out other women to serve as warnings to those who are out of order. It's also common for women to serve as scapegoats, be burned as witches, and treated as pariahs.
Manne examines recent and current events such as the Isla Vista killings by Elliot Rodger, the case of the convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, who preyed on African-American women as a police officer in Oklahoma City, Rush Limbaugh's diatribe against Sandra Fluke, and the "misogyny speech" of Julia Gillard, then Prime Minister of Australia, which went viral on YouTube. The book shows how these events, among others, set the stage for the 2016 US presidential election. Not only was the misogyny leveled against Hillary Clinton predictable in both quantity and quality, Manne argues it was predictable that many people would be prepared to forgive and forget regarding Donald Trump's history of sexual assault and harassment. For this, Manne argues, is misogyny's oft-overlooked and equally pernicious underbelly: exonerating or showing "himpathy" for the comparatively privileged men who dominate, threaten, and silence women. l

Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present. Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work rather than synthetic overviews of the field. Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographic essay. Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that provides context and discusses the intellectual “foremothers” of the field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry, and Zora Neale Hurston.

《女性书写文化》著者通过自传、小说、历史分析、实验性文章，以及评论性文字等不同文类，为我们反思性别政治、种族历史以及写作文化中的道德两难提供了全新的视角。全书共分四部分十二章：第一部分包括短篇小说、实验话剧和个人日记，作者以各自亲身经历表达了女人类学者在事业、家庭与亲情之间的艰难抉择；第二部分是对人类学经典作品与知名学者的重读与全新发现，这里既有《菊与剑》的作者露丝·本尼迪克特对多元文化的倡导，又有对《紫颜色》的作者艾丽丝·沃克的书写政治的研究；本书的第三部分主要是对被边缘化了的另类文化的发掘与书写；本书的第四部分收录了流散中的中国女性经验，她们痛苦地挣扎于家庭与异国文化之间，最终依靠个人觉醒与奋斗赢得各自的幸福与自由。在多元文化视野下，本书既是对男权文化的一次清算，又是对女性自己的文化的一种彰显。
《女性书写文化》是从事女性文化研究的学者不可多得的参考用书，也适合一切关注女性问题和边缘群体的广大读者阅读。

《写文化:民族志的诗学与政治学》已成为当代人类学反思的经典理论著作，具有里程碑式的意义。在出版后的20年里，它成为国际人类学界引用得最多的一《写文化:民族志的诗学与政治学》，并且在人文科学及其他社会科学领域产生了广泛的影响。

本书分为三部分，第一部分考察了理解男性气质的方法，回顾了本世纪以来通过精神分析研究和社会研究来创建男性气质科学的主要尝试；第二部分阐述了作者在实地研究中获得的有关男性气质的观点；第三部分思考了当今有关男性气质的知识中的政治含义。本书旨在全面系统地介绍，分析和研究男性气质问题，对之做出有计划性的初步探讨，并同时保留深入讨论的空间。

In this compelling and readable study of machismo in one of Latin America's most populous cities, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico. In their place he offers a sensitive, wide-ranging, often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, socialize among themselves, and talk about sex in their daily lives. Gutmann finds that men and women are responding to sweeping social forces in Mexico, just as they are in the United States, with women often initiating changes in male attitudes and behaviors. The Meanings of Macho takes the reader into Santo Domingo, Mexico City, the working-class neighborhood where Gutmann and his family lived. Exploring women's conceptions about men as well as men's ideas about themselves, Gutmann uncovers intriguing, complicated sexual politics among friends and informants. He discovers that, against stereotype, many men's nuanced, complicated sense of sexual identity encompasses considerable child care responsibilities and recognition of a newfound female autonomy. He also considers the kinds of homosocial space men are afforded in their culture, how violence against women plays itself out in this community, and the role of alcohol in male socializing.

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights.
In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism--conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West--are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam--as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

就今日女性主义与民族主义的命题而言，一个必须正视的问题是，全球资本主义化的进程，正以摧枯拉朽之势，跨越昔日民族国家的疆界，改写着现代民族国家的意义……其中女性作为现代社会秩序中的“自我”的“他者”，女性主义作家解构与建构性的思想资源的意义，正在变化的全球语境中凸现出新的突围与实践的意义。

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness - and with equal good humor - the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes "The Gender of the Gift" one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.

1990年面世的《性别麻烦》是女性主义理论和性别研究的重要著作，一经出版即引来赞誉和争议无数，并被奉为开创“酷儿理论”的经典文本。巴特勒因此书而一举成为当代思想界最闪耀的学术明星之一。
巴特勒在《性别麻烦》开篇，首先对“女性”作为女性主义的主体提出了质疑。她对波伏瓦、克利斯特娃、维蒂格、伊里格瑞等法国女性主义理论家的主要观点分别进行了梳理，并追溯到她们各自所依据或所反对的阳具逻格斯中心主义理论源头。她借用后结构主义、精神分析和女性主义的分析框架，通过对斯特劳斯结构主义人类学、福柯的管控性生产、拉康的原初禁制理论和弗洛伊德的性抑郁的解读，从哲学本体论层面重新追问语言、主体、性别身份等关键性概念，深刻阐述了异性恋框架下的性别身份和欲望关系是如何形成的，从而颠覆了霸权话语对性、性别、性欲的强制性规定。
巴特勒在本书中提出的、现已成为她的个人标记的“性别操演”理论，为性与性别开启了一个具有多种文化可能性的未来。
女性主义理论的必读书。
Hypatia
《性别麻烦》对性别的“自然性”提出了迄今为止最有说服力的质疑。这是一部富有创见的精彩论著。
Aandra Lee Bartky
巴特勒的作品改变了我们思考性、性别、性欲和语言的方式。她对性别身份的探问已对当代思想产生了重大影响，启发了在多个层面上对“主体”的批判性反思。
萨拉·萨莉
十年前我完成《性别麻烦》的稿子......我不知道这本书会有这么广大的读者，也不知道它会对女性主义理论构成具有挑衅意味的“介入”，并被引为开创酷儿理论的文本之一。这本书的生命超出了我的意图。
朱迪斯·巴特勒在1999年此书再版时附加了长篇序言，回应并澄清了针对此书的一些问题。