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

by Shaw, Susan; Lee, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780073512327
• ISBN10: 007351232X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-29
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

As a leading introductory women's studies reader, Shaw and Lee's Women's Voices, Feminist Visionsoffers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women's experiences. With each new edition, the authors keep the framework essays and selections of readings fresh and interesting for students.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Women’s Studies: Perspectives and Practices

What Is Women’s Studies?

How Did Women’s Studies Come About?

What Were the Origins of Women’s Rights Activism in the United States?

What Is the Status of Women’s Studies on College Campuses Today?

What Does Women’s Studies Have to Do with Feminism?

What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism?

1 ADRIENNE RICH | Claiming an Education

2 BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL AND BONNIE THORNTON DILL | Forty Years of Women's Studies: Origins and Intersections

3 JANE O'REILLY | The Housewife's Moment of Truth

4 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER AND AMY RICHARDS | A Day Without Feminism

5 BELL HOOKS | Feminist Politics: Where We Stand

6 CV HARQUAIL | Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary

7 ANNA QUINDLEN | Still Needing the F Word

8 MARGE PIERCY | My Heroines

Discussion Questions for Chapter 1

Suggestions for Further Reading

2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality

Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality

Institutions

Ideology

9 PATRICIA HILL COLLINS | Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection

10 MARILYN FRYE | Oppression

11 AUDRE LORDE| There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression

12 SUZANNE PHARR | Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism

13 PEGGY MCINTOSH | White Privilege and Male Privilege

14 CHERRÍE MORAGA | What's Race Gotta Do with It?

15 FELICE YESKEL | Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda

16 ELLIE MAMBER | Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says

17 SUSAN WENDELL | The Social Construction of Disability

18 JUNE JORDAN | Report from the Bahamas

Discussion Questions for Chapter 2

Suggestions for Further Reading

3 Learning Gender

Biology and Culture

Masculinity

Femininity

Gender Ranking

19 ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING | The Five Sexes, Revisited

20 JUDITH LORBER | The Social Construction of Gender

21 CORDEILA FINE | Unraveling Hardwiring

22 EVELYN BLACKWOOD | Trans Identities and Contigent Masculinities: Being Tombois in Everyday Practice

23 DAVID WEXLER | Shame-O-Phobia

24 NELLIE WONG | When I Was Growing Up

25 ISIS H. SETTLES, JENNIFER S. PRATT-HYATT, AND NICOLE BUCHANAN | Through the Lens of Race: Black and White Women's Perception of Womanhood

26 DEBRA ROSENBERG | (Rethinking) Gender

Discussion Questions for Chapter 3

Suggestions for Further Reading

4 Sex, Power, and Intimacy

The Social Construction of Sexuality

The Politics of Sexuality

Intimacies

27 JESSICA VALENTI | The Cult of Virginity

28 bell hooks | Romance: Sweet Love

29 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER | What Is Bisexuality?

30 ELLEN BASS | Gate C22

31 LEILA RUPP | A World of Difference

32 PAULA GUNN ALLEN | Some Like Indians Endure

33 ELISA ALBERT | I'm Gonna Wash That King Right Out of My Hair

34 ANDREA SMITH | Dismantling Hierarchy, Queering Society

35 KIMBERLY SPRINGER | Queering Black Female Heterosexuality

Discussion Questions for Chapter 4

Suggestions for Further Reading

5 Inscribing Gender on the Body

Bodies, Nature, and Women

The “Beauty” Ideal

Eating Disorders

Resisting “Beauty” Ideals

36 JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG | Breast Buds and the “Training” Bra

37 GLORIA STEINEM | If Men Could Menstruate

38 AIMEE MULLINS | Prosthetic Power

39 MARNI GROSSMAN | Beating Anorexia and Gaining Feminism

40 LISA R. RUBIN, MAKO L. FITTS, AND ANNE E. BECKER | Body Ethics and Aesthetics Among African American and Latina Women

41 ROSE WEITZ | What We Do for Love

42 LISA MIYA-JERVIS | Hold That Nose

43 COURTNEY E. MARTIN | Love Your Fat Self

44 JONATHAN WATTS | China’s Cosmetic Surgery Craze

45 SIMONE WEIL DAVIS | Designer Vaginas

Discussion Questions for Chapter 5

Suggestions for Further Reading

6 Health and Reproductive Rights

Health and Wellness

Reproductive Choice

46 MARGARET SANGER | My Fight for Birth Control

47 ELEANOR COONEY | The Way It Was

48 JOHN E. LEWIS, MARIA-JOSE MIGUEZ-BURBANO, AND ROBERT M. MALOW | HIV Risk Behavior Among College Students in the United States

49 NANCY FUGATE WOODS | A Global Health Imperative

50 JENNIFER PARKS | Rethinking Radical Politics in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology

51 JAEL SILLMAN, MARLENE GERBER FRIED, LORETTA ROSS, AND ELENA R. GUTIÉRREZ | Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice

52 SELDON MCCURRIE | Eyes on the Prize

Discussion Questions for Chapter 6

Suggestions for Further Reading

7 Family Systems, Family Lives

Definitions of Family

Institutional Connections

Power and Family Relationships

Mothering

53 EMMA GOLDMAN | Marriage and Love

54 LISA MIYA-JERVIS | Who Wants to Marry a Feminist?

55 HEIDI BRUGGINK | Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake

56 CHARLENE GOMES | Partners as Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage

57 JOEL PRESTON SMITH | Hardscrabble Salvation

58 BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL | Lullabies Behind Bars

59 MAYA ANGELOU | Our Grandmothers

Discussion Questions for Chapter 7

Suggestions for Further Reading

8 Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home

Unpaid Labor in the Home

Paid Labor

60 PAT MAINARDI | The Politics of Housework

61 SHARLENE HESSE-BIBER AND GREGG LEE CARTER | A Brief History of Working Women

62 BARBARA EHRENREICH | Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work

63 MOMO CHANG | Color Me Nontoxic

64 MARTHA BURK | Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out

65 CARRIE N. BAKER | The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment

66 CAROL LEIGH | The Strange Relationship Between Feminism and Sex Work

Discussion Questions for Chapter 8

Suggestions for Further Reading

9 Women Confronting and Creating Culture

Digital Technologies

Television

The Movies

Contemporary Music and Music Videos

Print Media

Literature and the Arts

67 VIRGINIA WOOLF | Thinking About Shakespeare’s Sister

68 EMILY DICKINSON | The Wife

69 MELISSA SUE KORT | Jane Addiction

70 AUDRE LORDE | Poetry Is Not a Luxury

71 SUSAN DOUGLAS | Enlightened Sexism

72 AYA DE LEON | If Women Ran Hip Hop

73 CARLEN LAVIGNE | Death Wore Black Chiffon: Sex and Gender in CSI

74 JOAN ACOCELLA AND JOHANNAH COUSINS | Singing and Dancing with Gender: Two Essays on Reality TV

75 AMANDA LENHART | Sexting

76 ALISON PIEPMEIER | Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines Doing Feminism

Discussion Questions for Chapter 9

Suggestions for Further Reading

10 Resisting Violence Against Women

Rape

Battering and Physical Abuse

Incest

Pornography

77 ANDREA SMITH | Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights

78 MARIAH LOCKWOOD | She Said

79 MIMI SWARTZ | The Lost Girls

80 DEBRA ANNE DAVIS | Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers?

81 TAKYIWAA MANUH AND ADOLF AWUKU BEKOE | Confronting Violence

82 DONNA ST. GEORGE | Textual Harassment

83 GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES | Lisa’s Ritual, Age 10

84 NILANJANA S. ROY, JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, AND NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Rape and War: Three Essays on a Theme

Discussion Questions for Chapter 10

Suggestions for Further Reading

11 State, Law, and Social Policy

Government and Representation

Women and the Law

Public Policy

The Criminal Justice System

The Military

85 SUSAN B. ANTHONY | Constitutional Argument

86 GAYLYNN BURROUGHS | Too Poor to Parent

87 LIBBY SANDER AND DAVID MOLTZ | Title IX Update: Two Essays

88 ANDREA DOYLE HUGMEYER | Delinquent Girls

89 HELEN BENEDICT | The Plight of Women Soldiers

90 SHAHNAZ KHAN | From Rescue to Recognition: Rethinking the Afghan Conflict

91 ALEKSANDRA DJAJIC-HORVÁTH | First Morning in Exile

Discussion Questions for Chapter 11

Suggestions for Further Reading

12 Religion and Spirituality

Religion as Oppressive to Women

Religion as Empowering to Women

Women and God-Language

Reinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing Traditions

Creating New Spiritual Traditions

92 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON | Introduction to The Woman’s Bible

93 KAYLIN HAUGHT | God Says Yes to Me

94 KAREN MCCARTHY BROWN | Fundamentalism and the Control of Women

95 SYLVIA MARCOS | Decolonizing Religious Beliefs

96 AN INTERVIEW WITH SYAFA ALMIRZANAH | The Prophet's Daughter

97 JUDITH PLASKOW | Standing Again at Sinai

98 ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER | Everywoman Her Own Theology

99 CARYN D. RISWOLD | Feminist Questions of Christianity

100 MEGAN SWEAS | Catholic and Feminist: You Got a Problem with That?

Discussion Questions for Chapter 12

Suggestions for Further Reading

13 Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures

The Promise of Feminist Education

Activism

Future Visions

101 LISA MARIE HOGELAND | Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies

102 PHYLLIS ROSSER | Too Many Women in College?

103 MICHAEL KIMMEL | Real Men Join the Movement

104 NATALIE MERCHANT | Wonder

105 RUTH ROSEN | Epilogue: Beyond Backlash

106 KATHA POLLITT | Amber Waves of Blame

107 MOYA BAILEY AND ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS | We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

108 JENNY JOSEPH | Warning

Discussion Questions for Chapter 13

Suggestions for Further Reading

Credits

Index