Mary Evans is Professor of Gender at London School of Economics.

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• VOLUME ONE: THE IMAGINATION OF FEMINISMExtract from The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de PizanA Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest - Mary AstellMary Wollstonecraft and the Paradoxes of Feminism - Barbara TaylorThe Tragedy of Women′s Emancipation - Emma GoldmanWhy We Are Militant - Emmeline PankhurstExtract from Women: The Longest Revolution - Juliet MitchellThe Ultimate Revolution - Shulamith FirestoneThe Power of the Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine - Luce IrigarayI Am Your Sister: Black Women Organising across Sexualities - Audre LordeRe-thinking Sex and Gender - Christine DelphyAlexandra Kollantai and Marxist Feminism - Jinee LokaneetaTelling Feminist Stories - Clare HemmingsFeminism and Enlightenment Legacies - Kate SoperThe Trade in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex - Gayle RubinReview of White Lives: The Interplay of ‘Race’, Class and Gender in Everyday Life by Bridget Byrne - Vron WareFeminism’s History - Joan Wallach ScottThe Distractions of the Modern - John JervisVOLUME TWO: MAKING FEMINISMDemarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-Discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics - Kimberle CrenshawContingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” - Judith ButlerDoes Feminism Need a Conception of Civil Society? - Anne PhillipsDo Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others - Lila Abu-Lughod‘Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties’: Women, Higher Education and Gender Conservatism in Late Victorian Britain - Julia BushThe Gendered Order of Caring - Kathryn Lynch and Maureen LyonsWeaving Relational Webs: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Embodied Practice - Carolyn PedwellFeminism, Gender and Social Policy - Afiya S. Zia‘Re-booting’ Is Not an Option: Toward Equitable Social and Economic Development - Stephanie SeguinoA Willfulness Archive - Sara AhmedAgency and Oppression: Two Views - Sumi MadhokIntersectional and Cross Movement Politics and Policies: Reflections on Current Practices and Debates - Mieke VerlooThe 1964 Civil Rights Act and the “Sex” Amendment - Dorothy Sue CobbleChristabel Pankhurst and the Smethwick Election: Right Wing Feminism, the Great War and the Ideology of Consumption - Nicoletta GullaceVOLUME THREE: LOCATIONS OF FEMINISMRacism and Feminism: The Issue of Accountability - Bell HooksUnder Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra MohantyThe Exile, the Nomad and the Migrant: Reflections on International Feminism - Rosi BraidottiFeminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions - Lila Abu-LughodWhat Will the Women Want Next?’ The Struggle for Power within the Family, 1925–1975 - Stephen CretneyI’m a Feminist but…“Other” Women and Postnational Feminism - Ien AngTransnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice - Johanna BrennerBetween Particularism, Universalism and Transversalism: Reflections on the Politics of Location of European Feminist Research and Education - Nina LykkeScattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular & Response - Gayatri SpivakAuthor(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women’s Involvement in Religious ‘Fundamentalist’ Movements - Sarah BrackeGlobalisation and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for Activism in the Global Arena - Myra Marx FerreeHeterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System - María LugonesPostcolonial Subjectivity: Masculinity, Shame, and Memory - Amal TreacherWho Defines ‘Mutilation’? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting - Courtney SmithVOLUME FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURESExtract from Three Guineas - Virginia WoolfBeyond the Politics of Location: The Power of Argument in a Global Era - Sylvia WalbyHistories of a Feminist Future - Elizabeth GroszA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century - Donna HarawayFeminist Theory, Embodiment and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival - Saba MahmoodOn Being in Time with Feminism - Robyn WiegmanTrans as Bodily Becoming: Rethinking the Biological as Diversity, Not Dichotomy - Riki LaneEcofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism - Greta GaardRethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-Secular Age - Niamh Reilly‘Race’, Gender and Neoliberalism: Changing Visual Representations in Development - Kalpana WilsonConclusion from End of Equality - Beatrix CampbellRethinking Gender from the South - Raewyn ConnellTexturing Visibility: Opaque Femininities and Feminist Modernist Studies - Ilya Parkins