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Title

Feminist frontiers / [edited by] Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier.

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Richardson, Laurel.
• Taylor, Verta A.
• Whittier, Nancy, 1966-

Description

xv, 536 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology.

Uniform Title

Feminist frontiers 5.

Subject

• Feminism > United States
• Sex role > United States
• Women > Cross-cultural studies
• Women > United States

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Feminist frontiers 5. 5th ed. c2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Diversity and difference -- Oppression / Marilyn Frye -- Distinctions in Western women's experience: ethnicity, class, and social change / Rosalinda Mendez Gonzalez -- Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Audre Lorde -- Teaching about being an oppressor: some personal and political considerations / Steven P. Schacht -- Theoretical perspectives -- "Night to his day": the social construction of gender / Judith Lorber -- Portrait of a man / Loren Cameron -- The medical construction of gender / Suzanne Kessler -- Some group matters: intersectionality, situated standpoints, and Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Womanist / Alice Walker -- Gender, culture, and socialization -- Representation, language, and culture -- Gender stereotyping in English language / Laurel Richardson -- Why I'm not a lady (and no woman is) / Sherryl Kleinman -- Cosmetic surgery: paying for your beauty / Debra L. Gimlin -- The myth of the perfect body / Roberta Galler -- Hair still matters / Ingrid Banks -- Selling hot pussy / bell hooks -- Ideological racism and cultural resistance / Yen Le Espiritu -- Socialization -- "The means to put my children through": child-rearing goals and strategies among Black female domestic servants / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Girls and boys together ... but mostly apart: gender arrangements in elementary schools / Barrie Thorne -- What are little boys made of? / Michael Kimmel -- Inherit the war / Grace Paley -- Ideology, experience, identity: the complex worlds of children in fair families / Barbara Risman -- Social organization of gender -- Work -- The wage conceived / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Sex segregation in the U.S. labor force / Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley -- Moving up and taking charge / Irene Padavic and Barbara Reskin -- The realities of affirmative action in employment / Barbara Reskin -- Maid in L.A. / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Families -- Working to place family at the center of life: dual-earner and single-parent strategies / Rosanna Hertz -- The mommy test / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Working at motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana immigrant mothers and employment / Denise A. Segura -- For better or worse: gender allures in the Vietnamese global marriage market / Hung Cam Thai.
• TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Wedding bells and baby carriages: heterosexuals imagine gay families, gay families imagine themselves / Suzanna Danuta Walters -- A member of the funeral / Nancy Naples -- Sexualities -- Finding the lesbians in lesbian history / Leila J. Rupp -- In hiding and on display / Susan Bordo -- Doing desire: adolescent girls' struggles for/with sexuality / Deborah L. Tolman -- Sex ed: how do we score? / Carolyn Mackler -- Becoming 100% straight / Michael A. Messner -- Bodies -- Hormonal hurricanes: menstruation, menopause, and female behavior / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem -- I'm taking back my pussy: a transgression of privatized gynecological boundaries / Claire T. Porter -- "A way outa no way": eating problems among African-American, Latina, and white women / Becky Wangsgaard Thompson -- Reproductive laws, women of color, and low income women / Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson -- Assessing older lesbians' health needs / Sharon Deevey -- The Muslim female heroic: shorts or veils? / Jennifer Hargreaves -- Violence against women -- Fraternities and rape on campus / Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer -- Men changing men / Robert L. Allen and Paul Kivel -- Supremacy crimes / Gloria Steinem -- A letter from Claudia Brenner / National Gay and Lesbian Task Force -- Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color / Kimberle Crenshaw -- Accountability or justice? Rape as a war crime / Mary Ann Tetreault -- Social change -- Global politics and the state -- Surviving the welfare system: how AFDC recipients make ends meet in Chicago / Kathryn Edin -- The truth about women and power / Harriet Woods -- Iraq's little secret / Nicholas D. Kristof -- The globetrotting sneaker / Cynthia Enloe -- Hindu women's activism in India and the questions it raises / Amrita Basu -- Globalization of beauty makes slimness trendy / Norimitsu Onishi -- Social protest and the feminist movement -- The gendered organization of hate: women in the U.S. Ku Klux Klan / Kathleen M. Blee -- What promises can men keep? How men renegotiate gender and racial ideologies in the Promise Keepers movement / Melanie Heath -- Punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens: the radical potential of queer politics? / Cathy J. Cohen -- The next feminist generation: imagine my surprise / Ellen Neuborne -- The women's movement: persistence through transformation / Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak -- Linking arms and movements / Urvashi Vaid.

ISBN

0072824239 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2003108637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library