Reader met belangrijke teksten over Amerikaanse feministische theorie in de periode na 1984. Bevat de volgende essays: Thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / door Gayle S. Rubin, 1984: Seductive sexualities: representing blackness in poetry and on screen / door bell hooks, 1990: Cinema and the dark continent: race and gender in popular film / door Tania Modleski, 1991: 'It's you, and not me': domination and 'othering' in theorizing the 'Third world,' / door Rey Chow, 1989: The language of nativism: anthropology as a scientific conversation of man with man / door Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989: Reinventing ourselves as other: more new agents of history and knowledge / door Sandra Harding, 1991: The missing feminist revolution in sociology / door Judith Stacey en Barrie Thorne, 1985: Making gender visible in pursuit of nature's secrets / door E. Fox Keller, 1991: The biopolitics of postmodern bodies / door Donna Haraway, 1989: Women's history / door Joan Wallach Scott, 1992: The long goodbye: against personal testimony, or an infant grifter grows up / door Linda S. kauffman, 1992: AIDS, gender, and biomedical discourse: current contests for meaning / door Paula A. Treichler, 1988: Outcast mothers and surrogates: racism and reproductive politics in the nineties / door Angela Y. Davis, 1991: Reflections on sex equality under law / door Catharine A. Mackinnon, 1991: La conciencia de la mestiza: towards a new consciousness / door Gloria Anzaldua, 1987: Bananas, beaches and bases / door cynthia enloe, 1989: Realism, just war, and the witness of peace / door Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1990.