Feminist Frontiers IV

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

• ISBN13: 9780070523807
• ISBN10: 0070523800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Table of Contents

Preface
Oppression	p. 7
Distinctions in Western Women's Experience: Ethnicity, Class, and Social Change	p. 9
Where I Come From Is Like This	p. 18
Boxed Insert: Ain't I A Woman?	p. 20
Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity	p. 22
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House	p. 26
Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	p. 28
"Night To His Day": The Social Construction of Gender	p. 33
Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex	p. 48
From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor	p. 64
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence	p. 81
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought	p. 101
Boxed Insert: Womanist	p. 104
Gender Stereotyping in the English Language	p. 115
Boxed Insert: A Monumental Oversight	p. 116
Boxed Insert: Different Words, Different Worlds	p. 118
Barbie Doll Culture and the American Waistland	p. 122
Boxed Insert: The Beauty Myth	p. 124
Women's Music: No Longer a Small Private Party	p. 126
Boxed Insert: Women Rap Back	p. 130
Hate Radio: Why We Need To Tune In To Limbaugh and Stern	p. 135
En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras	p. 139
Family Structure and Feminine Personality	p. 145
Boxed Insert: Gender in the Context of Race and Class: Notes on Chodorow's "Reproduction of Mothering"	p. 158
"The Means to Put My Children Through": Child-Rearing Goals and Strategies among Black Female Domestic Servants	p. 161
The Secret Fear That Keeps Us from Raising Free Children	p. 171
Boxed Insert: Ballet! Touche!	p. 174
Girls and Boys Together . . . But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools	p. 176
Women's Psychological Development: Implications for Psychotherapy	p. 187
The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Woman's Worth	p. 201
Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work	p. 215
Boxed Insert: The Mommy Test	p. 218
Race, Sex, and Class: Black Female Tobacco Workers in Durham, North Carolina, 1920-1940, and the Development of Female Consciousness	p. 228
Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work, and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs	p. 234
Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants	p. 247
The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home	p. 263
Boxed Insert: The Game of the Name	p. 265
Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment	p. 268
Race and "Value": Black and White Illegitimate Babies, 1945-1965	p. 282
Negotiating Lesbian Motherhood: The Dialectics of Resistance and Accommodation	p. 295
The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy	p. 309
Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960	p. 313
"Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Mid-Twentieth Century America	p. 323
Boxed Insert: In Praise of Best Friends: The Revival of a Fine Old Institution	p. 328
Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality	p. 337
Boxed Insert: The Myth of the Perfect Body	p. 342
Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior	p. 353
Boxed Insert: If Men Could Menstruate	p. 358
"A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women	p. 366
Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties	p. 375
Boxed Insert: When the Political Becomes the Personal or an Abortion That Wasn't an Abortion; A Right that Hardly Seems Such	p. 378
The Politics of Breast Cancer	p. 384
Boxed Insert: Assessing Patients' Special Needs	p. 386
"The Man in the Street": Why He Harasses	p. 395
Fraternities and Rape on Campus	p. 398
Boxed Insert: Men Changing Men	p. 400
Stopping Rape: Effective Avoidance Strategies	p. 410
"Femicide": Speaking the Unspeakable	p. 421
Boxed Insert: A Letter from Claudia Brenner	p. 422
Accountability or Justice? Rape as a War Crime	p. 427
Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago	p. 447
Strangers in a Strange Land: The Gendered Experiences of Women Politicians in Britain and the United States	p. 457
Boxed Insert: Lesbians Clear Hurdles to Gain Leadership Posts	p. 458
Boxed Insert: Reinventing the Wheel	p. 466
Social Control, Civil Liberties, and Women's Sexuality	p. 472
Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949	p. 485
Our Policies, Their Consequences: Zambian Women's Lives Under "Structural Adjustment"	p. 493
Black Club Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women	p. 499
Boxed Insert: Black Women as Do-ers: The Social Responsibility of Black Women	p. 504
Postindustrial Conditions and Postfeminist Consciousness in the Silicon Valley	p. 510
Boxed Insert: Ecofeminism: Anima, Animus, Animal	p. 512
Boxed Insert: "I'm Not a Feminist But I Play One on TV"	p. 518
Patriarchies and Feminisms: The Two Women's Movements of Post-Unification Germany	p. 526
Boxed Insert: Judaism, Masculinity, and Feminism	p. 530
Feminism on the Job: Confronting Opposition in Abortion Work	p. 536
The New Feminist Movement	p. 544
Boxed Insert: Black Students Who Reject Feminism	p. 546
Boxed Insert: Helping Ourselves to Revolution	p. 554
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