Women's Voices, Feminist Visions : Classic and Contemporary Readings

by Shaw, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780073112503
• ISBN10: 007311250X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-14
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This introductory women's studies reader offers a wide range of classic, conceptual, and experiential writings--over 105 selections in all. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. The anthology also offers numerous pedagogical features designed to engage students in active learning.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices	1	(59)
What Is Women's Studies?	1	(1)
How Did Women's Studies Come About?	1	(2)
Historical Moment | The First Women's Studies Department	3	(1)
The World's Women: Education	4	(1)
Educational Attainment of the Population 25 Years and over by Sex and Age: 2003	5	(1)
Activist Profile | Susan B. Anthony	6	(1)
What Were the Origins of Women's Rights Activism in the United States?	7	(1)
Learning Activity | The National Women's Hall of Fame	7	(3)
What Is the Status of Women's Studies on College Campuses Today?	8	(1)
What Does Women's Studies Have to Do with Feminism?	9	(1)
Thank a Feminist	10	(2)
Ideas for Activism | Two-Minute Activist	12	(1)
What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism?	13	(1)
Learning Activity | The Dinner Party	13	(1)
Yes, I Am	14	(3)
U.S. Suffrage Movement Timeline	17	(5)
Claiming an Education	22	(3)
Adrienne Rich
A Day Without Feminism	25	(3)
Jennifer Baumgardner
Amy Richards
Dear Sisters	28	(13)
Rosalyn Baxandall
Linda Gordon
Feminist Politics: Where We Stand	41	(3)
bell hooks
We Are Using This Power to Resist	44	(4)
Rebecca Walker
The Global Stage and the Politics of Location	48	(7)
Estelle B. Freedman
Denials of Inequality	55	(2)
Deborah L. Rhode
Still Needing the F Word	57	(3)
Anna Quindlen
Discussion Questions for Chapter 1	58	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	58	(2)
Systems of Privilege and Inequality in Women's Lives	60	(64)
Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Oppression	61	(1)
Learning Activity | Unpack Your Knapsack	62	(1)
Learning Activity | Test for Hidden Bias	63	(1)
Institutions	63	(1)
Challenging Your Assumptions	64	(1)
Learning Activity | Combating Hate	65	(1)
Learning Activity | Women in Science and Engineering	66	(1)
Historical Moment | Women of Color Feminism	67	(1)
Stark Intersections: Gender, Race, Class, and HIV/AIDS	68	(4)
Ideology and Language	69	(3)
Activist Profile | Fannie Lou Hammer	72	(2)
Ideas for Activism	73	(1)
Challenging the Pseudogeneric ``Man''	74	(2)
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection	76	(8)
Patricia Hill Collins
Oppression	84	(2)
Marilyn Frye
Tomorrow I'm Going to Rewrite the English Language	86	(1)
Lois Keith
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism	87	(4)
Suzanne Pharr
White Privilege and Male Privilege	91	(8)
Peggy McIntosh
Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	99	(2)
Gloria Yamato
Tired of Playing Monopoly?	101	(5)
Donna Langston
Voices: On Becoming Old Women	106	(4)
Baba Copper
The Social Construction of Disability	110	(8)
Susan Wendell
Report from the Bahamas	118	(6)
June Jordan
Discussion Questions for Chapter 2	122	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	122	(2)
Learning Gender in a Diverse Society	124	(41)
Biology and Culture	124	(1)
Learning Activity | Tomboys and Sissies	125	(2)
Learning Activity | Speaking of Women and Men	127	(2)
Historical Moment | Gender Testing	129	(2)
Masculinity	130	(1)
Rites of Passage	131	(1)
Learning Activity | Performing Gender in the Movies	132	(2)
Femininity	133	(1)
Activist Profile | Gloria Steinem	134	(1)
Learning Activity | Gender Swapping on the Web	135	(1)
Learning Activity | Walk Like a Man, Sit Like a Lady	136	(2)
Gender Ranking	136	(2)
Ideas for Activism	138	(1)
Two Sexes Are Not Enough	139	(2)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Social Construction of Gender	141	(3)
Judith Lorber
Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Not	144	(5)
Mariah Burton Nelson
When I Was Growing Up	149	(2)
Nellie Wong
Virtual Gender	151	(3)
Judy Wajcman
Trans on Campus	154	(3)
T. Eve Greenaway
Masculinities and Globalization	157	(8)
R.W. Connell
Discussion Questions for Chapter 3	163	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	164	(1)
Sex, Power, and Intimacy	165	(64)
The Social Construction of Sexuality	165	(1)
Rainbow Trivia	166	(2)
World Report 2002: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights	168	(3)
The Politics of Sexuality	170	(1)
Activist Profile | Emma Goldman	171	(1)
Learning Activity | As the World Turns	172	(1)
Learning Activity | Heteronormativity: It's Everywhere	173	(1)
Intimacies	173	(1)
Learning Activity | It's in the Cards	174	(1)
Learning Activity | Cybersex	175	(1)
Historical Moment | The Faked Organism	176	(4)
Ideas for Activism	179	(1)
Sexual Desire and Gender	180	(7)
Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Romance: Sweet Love	187	(4)
bell hooks
Biophobia	191	(4)
Marcia Deihl
Robin Ochs
I Was a Cosmo Sex Deviant	195	(4)
A. E. Berkowitz
La Guera	199	(4)
Cherrie Moraga
Prue Shows Her Knickers	203	(3)
Emily Oxford
Some Like Indians Endure	206	(2)
Paula Gunn Allen
Women, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East	208	(9)
Pinar Ilkkaracan
Girls, Media, and the Negotiation of Sexuality	217	(12)
Gigi Durham Meengleshi
Discussion Questions for Chapter 4	227	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	228	(1)
Inscribing Gender on the Body	229	(72)
Learning Activity | Considering Body Size, Shape, and Movement	230	(3)
Bodies, Nature, and Women	232	(1)
Activist Profile | Maggie Kuhn	233	(1)
Body Art	234	(1)
Learning Activity | On the Rag	234	(2)
The ``Beauty'' Ideal	235	(1)
Historical Moment | Protesting Miss America	236	(3)
Body Image Quiz	239	(3)
Learning Activity | Feminism and Plastic Surgery	242	(1)
Eating Disorder Information	242	(4)
Eating Disorders	243	(2)
Ideas for Activism	245	(1)
Resisting the ``Beauty'' Ideals	245	(1)
Learn to Love Your Body	246	(2)
Hermaphrodites with Attitude	248	(5)
Amy Bloom
Breast Buds and the ``Training'' Bra	253	(5)
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
If Men Could Menstruate	258	(1)
Gloria Steinem
Body Ethics and Aesthetics Among African American and Latina Women	259	(11)
Lisa R. Rubin
Mako L. Fitts
Anne Becker
What We Do for Love	270	(12)
Rose Weitz
Hold That Nose	282	(2)
Lisa Miya-Jervis
Dancing Toward Redemption	284	(5)
Meredith McGhan
Phenomenal Woman	289	(1)
Mayo Angelou
China's Cosmetic Surgery Craze	290	(1)
Jonathan Watts
Designer Vaginas	291	(10)
Simone Weil Davis
Discussion Questions for Chapter 5	299	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	299	(2)
Health and Reproductive Rights	301	(71)
Health and Wellness	301	(2)
HIV/AIDS Among Women	303	(1)
Learning Activity | Obsessed with Breasts	304	(1)
Women's Top Health Threats: A Surprising List	305	(4)
Learning Activity | Bad Science	309	(1)
Learning Activity | Women, Heart Disease, and Cancer in Your State	309	(1)
Alcohol Abuse	310	(4)
Reproductive Choice	313	(1)
Historical Moment | The Women's Health Movement	314	(6)
Exorcising the Witch, Midwife, and Healer	317	(3)
Activist Profile | Margaret Sanger	320	(2)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases	322	(5)
Learning Activity | Walk in Her Shoes	327	(1)
Facts About Abortion, Choice, and Women's Health	328	(1)
Ideas for Activism | Ten Things You Can Do to Protect Choice	329	(3)
American Women and Health Disparities	332	(3)
David Satcher
The Tolling of the Bell: Women's Health, Women's Rights	335	(7)
Vivian Dickinson
Gender Role Stressors and Women's Health	342	(3)
Patti L. Watkins
Diane Whaley
Eyes on the Prize	345	(6)
Seldon McCurrie
The Fight Against Fistulas	351	(1)
Kari Browne
My Fight for Birth Control	352	(2)
Margaret Sanger
Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice	354	(9)
Jael Sillman
Marlene Gerber Fried
Loretta Ross
Elena R. Gutierrez
The Way It Was	363	(9)
Eleanor Cooney
Discussion Questions for Chapter 6	370	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	370	(2)
Family Systems, Family Lives	372	(57)
Definitions of Family	372	(1)
Facts About U.S. Families	373	(1)
The World's Women: Women and Families	373	(1)
Myths and Facts About Lesbian Families	374	(1)
Learning Activity | What Makes a Family?	375	(3)
Institutional Connections	377	(1)
Learning Activity | Families and Poverty	378	(2)
Power and Family Relationships	379	(1)
Activist Profile | Hannah Solomon	380	(1)
Learning Activity | Divorce Law: Who Benefits in My State?	381	(1)
Ideas for Activism	381	(1)
Historical Moment | The Feminine Mystique	382	(4)
Mothering	385	(1)
Facts About Singles	386	(3)
Marriage and Love	389	(2)
Emma Goldman
Cheaper than a Cow	391	(4)
Miranda Kennedy
The Myth of the Perfect Mother	395	(5)
Judith Warner
Partners as Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage	400	(6)
Charlene Gomes
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist Response	406	(4)
Audre Lorde
The Emperor's New Woes	410	(4)
Sean Elder
``Maternal Thinking'' in the Raising of a Child with Profound Intellectual Disabilities	414	(12)
Eva Feder Kittay
Only Daughter	426	(3)
Sandra Cisneros
Discussion Questions for Chapter 7	428	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	428	(1)
Women's Work Inside and Outside the Home	429	(74)
Unpaid Labor in the Home	429	(1)
Learning Activity | Housework and Technology	430	(1)
Women and Agriculture	431	(2)
Learning Activity | Who Does the Work at Your School and in Your Home?	433	(1)
Historical Moment | Wages for Housework	434	(3)
Paid Labor	435	(2)
African American Women in the Workplace: Common Barriers for Advancement	437	(1)
What Is Sexual Harassment?	438	(2)
Ideas for Activism	439	(1)
Global Employment Trends for Women	440	(4)
20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women	444	(1)
Activist Profile | Dolores Huerta	445	(1)
Selected Nontraditional Occupations for Women	446	(1)
Learning Activity | Working Women and Unions	446	(5)
Women and Economics	451	(1)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Brief History of Working Women	452	(13)
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Gregg Lee Carter
A Black Woman Took My Job	465	(3)
Michael Kimmel
Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work	468	(6)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Globalization and Its Discontents	474	(7)
Evelyn Hu-Dehart
What Wal-Mart Women Want	481	(2)
Ella Hawkes
Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out	483	(3)
Martha Burk
``Hey, Why Don't You Wear a Shorter Skirt?'' Structural Vulnerability and the Organization of Sexual Harassment in Temporary Clerical Employment	486	(12)
Jackie Krasas Rogers
Kevin D. Henson
Prostitution, Humanism, and a Woman's Choice	498	(5)
Kimberly Klinger
Discussion Questions for Chapter 8	502	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	502	(1)
Women Confronting and Creating Culture	503	(51)
Television	504	(1)
Learning Activity | Talking About Talk Shows	505	(2)
The Movies	506	(1)
Janet and Susan's Chick Flick Picks	507	(1)
Learning Activity | Women Make Movies	508	(2)
Contemporary Music and Music Videos	509	(1)
Rock `n' Roll Camp for Girls	510	(3)
Print Media	511	(1)
Ideas for Activism	512	(1)
Learning Activity | Looking Good, Feeling Sexy, Getting a Man	513	(2)
Literature and the Arts	513	(2)
Activist Profile | Maxine Hong Kingston	515	(1)
Janet and Susan's Must-Read Novels	516	(1)
Historical Moment | The NEA Four	516	(2)
Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister	518	(2)
Virginia Woolf
Poetry Is Not a Luxury	520	(2)
Audre Lorde
The Path of the Red and Black Ink	522	(3)
Gloria Anzaldua
Pop Culture Is Us: Two Essays on a Theme	525	(3)
Susan J. Douglas
Catherine Orenstein
Desperately Debating Housewives	528	(4)
Jennifer L. Pozner
Jessica Seigel
From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos	532	(3)
Joan Morgan
Pop Goes the Arab World: Popular Music, Gender, Politics, and Transnationalism in the Arab World	535	(6)
Shereen Abdel-Nabi
Jehan Agha
Julia Choucair
Maya Mikdashi
Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion	541	(7)
Jennifer Bleyer
Strip Till You Drop	548	(6)
Alison Pollet
Page Hurwitz
Discussion Questions for Chapter 9	552	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	552	(2)
Resisting Violence Against Women	554	(61)
Historical Moment | The Violence Against Women Act of 1994	557	(1)
Cyberstalking	558	(5)
Rape	562	(1)
Learning Activity | How Safe Is Your Campus?	563	(7)
Intimate Partner Violence: Fact Sheet	566	(2)
Battering and Physical Abuse	568	(1)
Ideas for Activism	569	(1)
Check Up on Your Relationship	570	(1)
The Cycle of Violence	571	(1)
Activist Profile | Del Martin	572	(2)
Incest	573	(1)
Violence Against Women: Selected Human Rights Documents	574	(4)
Pornography	576	(2)
Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights	578	(3)
Andrea Smith
Human Rights: Sex Trafficking and Prostitution	581	(6)
Alice Leuchtag
Letter from Juarez	587	(2)
Mariana Katzarova
Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers?	589	(4)
Debra Anne Davis
What College Women Do and Do Not Experience as Rape	593	(8)
Arnold S. Kahn
When Terror Strikes at Home: The Interface Between Religion and Domestic Violence	601	(7)
Nancy Nason-Clark
Lisa's Ritual, Age 10	608	(1)
Grace Caroline Bridges
Pornography and Freedom	609	(4)
John Stoltenberg
War Crimes	613	(2)
Helen Clarkson
Discussion Questions for Chapter 10	614	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	614	(1)
State, Law, and Social Policy	615	(51)
Government and Representation	616	(1)
Learning Activity | Women in the United Nations	616	(3)
Learning Activity | The League of Women Voters	619	(1)
Activist Profile | Wilma Mankiller	620	(2)
Where Women Rule: A Sample of Female Representatives in National Legislatures Worldwide	622	(1)
Historical Moment | Shirley Chisholm for President	623	(2)
Women and the Law	624	(1)
Women in Elective Office	625	(2)
Ideas for Activism	626	(1)
Affirmative Action: Myth Versus Reality	627	(6)
Public Policy	629	(1)
The Criminal Justice System	630	(1)
Women in Prison	631	(1)
The Military	632	(1)
Women in the Military	633	(2)
Women in Black: For Justice, Against War	635	(2)
Constitutional Argument	637	(1)
Susan B. Anthony
Unequal: A Global Perspective on Women Under the Law	638	(3)
Jessica Neuwirth
Flat Broke with Children	641	(8)
Sharon Hays
She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex	649	(6)
Robin Templeton
Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture	655	(6)
Carol Burke
The Postwar Moment: Lessons from Bosnia Herzegovina	661	(5)
Cynthia Cockburn
Discussion Questions for Chapter 11	664	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	664	(2)
Religion and Spirituality in Women's Lives	666	(38)
Religion as Oppressive to Women	667	(1)
Ideas for Activism	668	(1)
Learning Activity | That Old-Time TV Religion	668	(3)
Religion as Empowering to Women	670	(1)
Historical Moment | Becoming a Bishop	671	(1)
Learning Activity | Women of Faith	672	(1)
Activist Profile | Nannie Helen Burroughs	673	(1)
Learning Activity | How Well Do You Know the Goddess?	674	(2)
Women and God-Language	675	(1)
Learning Activity | Exploring New Metaphors for Deity	676	(4)
Reinterpreting and Reconstructing Traditions	676	(2)
Creating New Spiritual Traditions	678	(2)
Introduction to The Woman's Bible	680	(1)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
God Says Yes to Me	681	(1)
Kaylin Haught
Fundamentalism and the Control of Women	681	(5)
Karen McCarthy Brown
Grandmother of the Sun: The Power of Woman in Native America	686	(3)
Paula Gunn Allen
The Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in Mosques	689	(5)
Asra Q. Nomani
Standing Again at Sinai	694	(3)
Judith Plaskow
Everywoman Her Own Theology	697	(1)
Alicia Ostriker
Witchcraft and Women's Culture	698	(2)
Starhawk
Religion and Feminism's Fourth Wave	700	(2)
Pythia Peay
Discussion Questions for Chapter 12	702	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	702	(2)
Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures	704
The Promise of Feminist Education	704	(1)
Activism	705	(2)
Size Does Matter and Nine Other Tips for Effective Protest	707	(1)
Learning Activity | Feminist.com	708	(2)
Ideas for Activism	709	(1)
UN Millennium Development Goals	710	(1)
Activist Profile | Haunani-Kay Trask	711	(2)
Future Visions	712	(1)
Principles of Environmental Justice	713	(1)
Women Working for Peace	714	(1)
Female Nobel Peace Laureates	715	(3)
Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies	718	(3)
Lisa Marie Hogeland
Real Men Join the Movement	721	(5)
Michael Kimmel
Reflections of a Human Rights Educator	726	(3)
Dazon Dixon Diallo
Taking the High Road	729	(3)
Suzanne Pharr
Epilogue: Beyond Backlash	732	(6)
Ruth Rosen
Warning	738	(1)
Jenny Joseph
A Day with Feminism	739
Jennifer Baumgardner
Amy Richards
Discussion Questions for Chapter 13	742	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	742
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