Feminist Frontiers

by Richardson, Laurel; Taylor, Verta A.; Whittier, Nancy; Richardson, Laurel; Taylor, Verta A.; Whittier, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780072824230
• ISBN10: 0072824239
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual orientation and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With readings that cut across disciplines and generational lines, Feminist Frontiers presents the full diversity of women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities as well as their differences. Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. A sociological analysis opens each of the four parts and eleven sections of the book. Boxed inserts, with news articles, humor, and other writings from the popular press complement the readings.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION	1	(3)
Section One: Diversity and Difference	4	(26)
Oppression	6	(3)
Marilyn Frye
Distinctions in Western Women's Experience: Ethnicity, Class, and Social Change	9	(9)
Rosalinda Mendez Gonzalez
Where I Come From Is Like This	18	(4)
Paula Gunn Allen
Boxed Insert: Ain't I a Woman?	20	(2)
Sojourner Truth
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House	22	(2)
Audre Lorde
Teaching About Being an Oppressor: Some Personal and Political Considerations	24	(6)
Steven P. Schacht
Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives	30	(55)
``Night To His Day'': The Social Construction of Gender	33	(18)
Judith Lorber
Boxed Insert: Portrait of a Man	37	(14)
Loren Cameron
The Medical Construction of Gender	51	(15)
Suzanne Kessler
Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought	66	(19)
Patricia Hill Collins
Boxed Insert: Womanist	84	(1)
Alice Walker
PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATION	85	(2)
Section Three: Representation, Language, and Culture	87	(55)
Gender Stereotyping in the English Language	89	(5)
Laurel Richardson
Boxed Insert: Why I'm Not a Lady (And No Woman Is)	93	(1)
Sherryl Kleinman
Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty	94	(16)
Debra L Gimlin
Boxed Insert: The Myth of the Perfect Body	108	(2)
Roberta Galler
Hair Still Matters	110	(9)
Ingrid Banks
Selling Hot Pussy	119	(9)
bell hooks
Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance	128	(14)
Yen Le Espiritu
Section Four: Socialization	142	(39)
``The Means to Put My Children Through'': Child-Rearing Goals and Strategies Among Black Female Domestic Servants	144	(10)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Girls and Boys Together . . . But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools	154	(12)
Barrie Thorne
What Are Little Boys Made Of?	166	(3)
Michael Kimmel
Boxed Insert: Inherit the War	169	(1)
Grace Paley
Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Families	169	(12)
Barbara Risman
PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER	181	(2)
Section Five: Work	183	(64)
The Wage Conceived	185	(15)
Alice Kessler-Harris
Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force	200	(9)
Christine E. Bose
Rachel Bridges Whaley
Moving Up and Taking Charge	209	(19)
Irene Padavic
Barbara Reskin
Boxed Insert: The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment (excerpt)	225	(3)
Barbara Reskin
Maid in L.A.	228	(19)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Section Six: Families	247	(53)
Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single-Parent Strategies	250	(11)
Rosanna Hertz
Boxed Insert: The Mommy Test	259	(2)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment	261	(14)
Denise A. Segura
For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market	275	(11)
Hung Cam Thai
Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay Families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves	286	(14)
Suzanna Danuta Walters
Boxed Insert: A Member of the Funeral	296	(4)
Nancy Naples
Section Seven: Sexualities	300	(32)
Finding the Lesbians in Lesbian History	302	(4)
Leila J. Rupp
In Hiding and On Display	306	(6)
Susan Bordo
Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality	312	(15)
Deborah L Tolman
Boxed Insert: Sex Ed: How Do We Score?	324	(3)
Carolyn Mackler
Becoming 100% Straight	327	(5)
Michael A. Messner
Section Eight: Bodies	332	(55)
Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior	334	(19)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Boxed Insert: If Men Could Menstruate	347	(1)
Gloria Steinem
Boxed Insert: I'm Taking Back My Pussy: A Transgression of Privatized Gynecological Boundaries	348	(5)
Claire T. Porter
``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women	353	(10)
Becky Wangsgaard Thompson
Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low Income Women	363	(9)
Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson
Boxed Insert: Assessing Older Lesbians' Health Needs	371	(1)
Sharon Deevey
The Muslim Female Heroic: Shorts or Veils?	372	(15)
Jennifer Hargreaves
Section Nine: Violence against Women	387	(42)
Fraternities and Rape on Campus	389	(12)
Patricia Yancey Martin
Robert A. Hummer
Boxed Insert: Men Changing Men	398	(3)
Robert L. Allen
Paul Kivel
Supremacy Crimes	401	(4)
Gloria Steinem
Boxed Insert: A Letter from Claudia Brenner	403	(2)
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color	405	(10)
Kimberle Crenshaw
Accountability or Justice? Rape as a War Crime	415	(14)
Mary Ann Tetreault
PART FOUR: SOCIAL CHANGE	429	(3)
Section Ten: Global Politics and the State	432	(39)
Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago	434	(10)
Kathryn Edin
The Truth About Women and Power	444	(9)
Harriet Woods
Boxed Insert: Iraq's Little Secret	452	(1)
Nicholas D. Kristof
The Globetrotting Sneaker	453	(5)
Cynthia Enloe
Hindu Women's Activism in India and the Questions It Raises	458	(13)
Amrita Basu
Boxed Insert: Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trendy	468	(3)
Norimitsu Onishi
Section Eleven: Social Protest and the Feminist Movement	471	(62)
The Gendered Organization of Hate: Women in the U.S. Ku Klux Klan	473	(11)
Kathleen M. Blee
What Promises Can Men Keep?: How Men Renegotiate Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement	484	(11)
Melanie Heath
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?	495	(17)
Cathy J. Cohen
The Next Feminist Generation: Imagine My Surprise	512	(3)
Ellen Neuborne
The Women's Movement: Persistence through Transformation	515	(18)
Verta Taylor
Nancy Whittier
Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak
Boxed Insert: Linking Arms and Movements	531	(2)
Urvashi Vaid
Acknowledgments	533