Companion to Feminist Studies

Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Name: Naples, Nancy A., editor.

Title: Companion to feminist studies / edited by Nancy A. Naples.

Description: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley‐Blackwell, 2021. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020026504 (print) | LCCN 2020026505 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119314943 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119314950 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119314929 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Women's studies.

Classification: LCC HQ1180.C656 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1180 (ebook) | DDC 305.4–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026504LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026505

Cover Design: Wiley

Cover Image: © Liyao Xie/Getty Images

Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She served as president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems , Sociologists for Women in Society , and the Eastern Sociological Society . Her publications include over fifty book chapters and journal articles in a wide array of interdisciplinary and sociological journals. She is author of Grassroots Warriors: Community Work, Activist Mothering and the War on Poverty and Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research . She is editor of Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender ; and co‐editor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization ; Teaching Feminist Praxis; Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics ; and The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantú. She is series editor for Praxis: Theory in Action published by SUNY Press and Editor‐in‐Chief of the five‐volume Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies . Her awards include the 2015 Jessie Bernard Award for distinguished contributions to women and gender studies from the American Sociological Association and the 2014 Lee Founders Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She also received the 2010 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2011 Feminist Mentor Award from Sociologists for Women in Society , and the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' 2011 Excellence in Research for the Social Sciences and Alumni Association's 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research. She is currently working on a book on sexual citizenship.

Cristina Khan is a lecturer in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut in 2019 with a certificate in Feminist Studies. Her specializations include race, ethnicity, embodiment, sexualities, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, “Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color,” draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in‐depth interviews with a collective of lesbian exotic dancers, uncovering how race and sexuality, together, shape women's potential to enact agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. Her research on “Constructing Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry” has been published in Gender & Society . She is also co‐author of Race and Sexuality (Polity Press, 2018). Her research experience includes serving as a consultant on diversity and equity initiatives at the New York City Department of Education, and as a research assistant on cochlear implant usage and experience amongst families, under the supervision of Dr. Laura Mauldin.

Umme Al‐wazediis Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Division Chair of Language and Literature at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Her research interest encompasses women writers of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora, postcolonial and Muslim feminism, and postcolonial disability studies. She has published in South Asian Review and South Asian History and Culture and has also written several book chapters. She coedited a special issue of South Asian Review titled “Nation and Its Discontents” and a book titled Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature (Routledge, 2017) with Madhurima Chakraborty of Columbia College Chicago, Illinois.

Samantha M. Archerreceived her BA and MA from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. She is a biocultural anthropologist and anthropological geneticist whose work merges the study of contemporary and ancient human DNA with critical queer, feminist, indigenous, and Black science studies. Her article, “Bisexual Science,” cowritten with lab mate and colleague Dr. Rick W.A. Smith, was published in American Anthropologist (2019).

Elisabeth Armstrongis a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She has published two books, Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics (Routledge, 2013) and The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized (SUNY Press, 2002).

Marci Berger, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her areas of interest include public health, health policy, public policy and sexual and reproductive health policy.

Ute Bettraycurrently teaches (trans)feminisms and (trans)gender studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany where is preparing to write her Habilitation titled Literary Female Sexology, 1849–1899 . She is also currently preparing an article titled “A Transfeminist Reading of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind (1978) via Newest German Literature.” Prior to teaching at Humboldt University, Dr. Bettray held an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Lafayette College where she also taught courses such as Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies and Transfeminisms in the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Before coming to Lafayette College, Dr. Bettray had worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Gender Studies at Swarthmore College. She is in the process of publishing two book manuscripts located at the intersections of transfeminism and transnational transfeminism and German Studies. These manuscripts are entitled When Black Feminist Thought Meets Transfeminism: The Works of Angela Y. Davis and Audre Lorde , and Toward a Transnational Transfeminism via Germanic Sexology and Psychoanalysis . Among her latest publications is a book chapter titled “Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis” included in an anthology on Embodied Difference (Jamie A. Thomas and Christina Jackson [eds.], Lexington Books, 2018).

Rose M. Brewer, PhD, is an activist scholar and The Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and past chairperson of the Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota‐Twin Cities. Brewer publishes extensively on Black feminism, political economy, social movements, race, class, gender, and social change. Her current book project examines the impact of late capitalism on Black life in the US. Brewer has held the Sociologist for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in Social Change, a Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Miami University of Ohio, and was a 2013 Visiting Scholar in the Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois‐Chicago.