Give the lists of Contemporary Feminist theorists names and their works with short description? (Post World war-II Theory)

Payal

1. Simon de beauvoir she wrote "the second sex" in which she argued that women have been defined be men and that if they attempt to break with this, they risk alienating themselves. he is the subject and she is the "other". she links woman identity as other. 2. Betty Friedan she wrote "the feminine mystique". she surveyed her classmates and found that many of them were, like her, deeply dissatisfied with their lives. she turned her first dings into this book. 3. Dorothy E. Smith. her works are - the everyday world as problematic - the conceptual practices of power - texts, facts, and femininity - writing the social - Institutional ethnography: a sociology for people 4. Patricia Hill Collins - Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment- the subject of this book is exclusion of black women from intellectual discourses - fighting words: black women and the search for justice - black sexual politics - recent book is from black power to hip hop: essay on racism, nationalism, and feminism 5. Nancy Chodorow - the reproduction of mothering - feminism and psychoanalytic theory - femininities, masculinities, sexualities: Freud and beyond 6. Raewyn Connell - Australian's most acclaimed sociologist - ruling class, ruling culture - class structure in Australian history - gender and power - the men and the boys - southern theory 7. Judith butler - subjects of desire - gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity - bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of sex - excitable speech: a politics of performative