Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches

by Saraswati, L. Ayu; Shaw, Barbara L.; Rellihan, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780197751282
• ISBN10: 0197751288
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780197750414
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-09-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, Third Edition, reflects the exciting changes taking place in this field. Emphasizing both interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, this innovative mix of anthology and textbook includes key primary historical sources and debates on contemporary issues. Readings from a range of genres and perspectives illustrate the diversity of the field. While many of the readings are foundational texts, the book also integrates new work from established scholars and emerging voices to expand current debates in the field. The text is enhanced by thorough overviews that begin each section that encourage students to think critically and self-reflexively.

The addition of Act Now! A Feminist Toolkit for Twenty-first Century Activism to this edition enables students to take their theoretical classroom learning and apply it to activism in their daily lives and the broader world. Act Now! encourages students to use what they have learned to enact change.

Author Biography

L. Ayu Saraswati is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.

Barbara L. Shaw is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and affiliated with Black Studies, Global Health Studies, and Public Humanities at Allegheny College.

Heather Rellihan is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Anne Arundel Community College.

Table of Contents

* = New to this Edition
(new) = Not published before
(updated) = Updated for this Edition

Preface
Acknowledgments

Section 1
Introduction
1. bell hooks, "Feminist Politics: Where We Stand"
2. *Kirisitina Siliata and Stephanie Nohelani Teves, "Genealogies of Native Pacific Feminisms" (new)
3. *Evaan Kheraj and Vera Papisova, "What It Means to be Intersex"
4. *Hil Malatino, "Something Other Than Transcestors: Hirstory Lessons"
5. Audre Lorde, "There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions"
6. *Jane Coaston Interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw, "The Intersectionality Wars"
7. *Sami Schulk, "Black Disability Gone Viral: A Critical Race Approach to Inspirational Porn"
8. M. Soledad Caballero, "Before Intersectionality"
9. *Sara Ahmed, "A Killjoy Manifesto"
10. Kimberly Williams Brown and Red Washburn, "Trans-forming Bodies and Bodies of Knowledge: A Case Study of Utopia, Intersectionality, Transdisciplinarity, and Collaborative Pedagogy"


Section 2
Introduction

Nineteenth Century
11. Angelina Emily Grimké, "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South"
12. Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments" and "Resolutions"
13. Sojourner Truth, "1851 Speech"
14. *Sarah Winnemucca, "Petition to Congress"
15. Ida B. Wells, "A Red Record"
16. *Mary Church Terrell, "The Progress of Colored Women"

Twentieth Century
17. The New York Times, "141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire"
18. Daughters of Bilitis, "Statement of Purpose"
19. Leslie Feinberg, interview with Sylvia Rivera, "I'm Glad I Was in the Stonewall Riot"
20. Pat Mainardi, "The Politics of Housework"
21. Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm"
22. Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman"
23. Chicago Gay Liberation Front, "A Leaflet for the American Medical Association"
24. The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"
25. Jo Carrillo, "And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You"
26. bell hooks, "Men: Comrades in Struggle"
27. Gloria Anzaldúa, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness"
28. National Organization for Men Against Sexism, "Tenets"
29. Angela Davis, "Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex"

Twenty-First Century
30. *Sins Invalid, "10 Principles of Disability Justice"
31. Tina Vasquez, "It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women"
32. Ashwini Tambe, "Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo"
33. *Zoe Spencer, "Say Her Name"
34. *Justice Samuel Alito, "Majority Opinion" and Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor, "Joint Dissent"


Section 3
Introduction

Rethinking the Family
35. Rebecca Barrett-Fox, "Constraints and Freedom in Conservative Christian Women's Lives" (updated)
36. *Sujata Moorti, "Mothering in a Transnational Context" (new)
37. Monisha Das Gupta, "'Broken Hearts, Broken Families': The Political Use of Families in the Fight Against Deportation" (updated)
38. Sarah Mirk, "Popaganda: Queering Family Values"

Gender and Sexuality in the Labor Market
39. Marlene Kim, "Policies to End the Gender Wage Gap in the United States"
40. Catherine Rottenberg, "The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism"
41 *Dean Spade, "Three Key Elements of Mutual Aid"

Reproductive Politics
42. Kathy E. Ferguson, "Birth Control" (updated)
43. *Loretta Ross, "Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism"
44. *Chase Strangio, "Can Reproductive Trans Bodies Exist?"

Gendered Violence
45. *Bettina Judd, "21" (new)
46. Courtney Bailey, "A Queer #MeToo Story: Sexual Violence, Consent, and Interdependence"
47. Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Richie, and Kay Whitlock, "False Promises: Criminal Legal Responses to Violence Against LGBT People"
48. *Margaret Robinson, "Two Spirit Identity in a Time of Gender Fluidity"

Popular Culture and Media Representations
49. *Jess River Vooris, "Fierce and Fabulous: Drag Kids Playing around with Gender" (new)
50. *Brittney McNamara, "Not Naming Bisexuality on TV is a Form of Bi Erasure"
51. *Robin Morgan, Rebecca Nagle, and Crystal Echo Hawk, "Representation and Truth: An Interview with Two Native American Leaders in Media"


Section 4
Introduction
52. *Geena Rocero, "Butterfly"
53. *Kilihe Kanakanui, "Kahikolu" (new)
54. *James Han Matson, "What Did they Love Me For?"
55. *Joanne Rondilla, "The Summer I Knew I Was Ugly" (new)
56. *Reena Kukreja, "Colorism as Marriage Capital: A New Form of Gendered Violence in India"
57. *Mireille Rebeiz, "Do I look White to you? The Invisibility of Arabs, Middle Easterners, and North Africans in the American Census" (new)
58. Kristina Gupta, "Feminist Approaches to Asexuality"
59. *Robert McRuer, "Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence"
60. *Margaret Gullette, "When My Mother Wanted to Die: The Neglected Issues of Ageist Undertreatment"
61. *Esmé Weijun Wang, "Yale Will Not Save You"
62. *Jennifer Nish, "Why People with ME and Long Covid Need Disability Justice" (new)
63. *L. Ayu Saraswati, "How I Work With My Body and Without The Story To Process Pain"
64. *Brielle Nicole Williams, "$$$ickening: A Black Trans Woman's Reflections on Femme Identity, Class, and Privilege"
65. *S. Heijin Lee, "Making over 'the Big Reveal': Medical Tourism YouTube Vlogs and the Globalizing of the South Korean 'Look'" (new)
66. *Da'Shaun Harrison, "Health and Black Fat"
67. Jessica Vasquez-Tokos and Kathryn Norton-Smith, "Resisting Racism: Latinos' Changing Responses to Controlling Images over the Life Course"


Section 5
Introduction
68. * Victoria Pitts-Taylor, "Science, Critique, Authority, and Accountability"
69. Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles"
70. Glenda M. Flores, "Latina Doctoras [Doctors]: Negotiating Knowledge Production in Science" (updated)
71. Clare C. Jen, "Oppositional Scientific Praxis: The 'Do' and 'Doing' of #CRISPRbabies and DIY Hormone Biohacking" (updated)
72. *Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "The Dark Side of CRISPR"
73. Liam Oliver Lair, "Navigating Transness in the United States: Understanding the Legacies of Eugenics"
74. *Caroline Criado Perez, "A Sea of Dudes"
75. Naciza Masikini, Anjali Singh, and Bipasha Baruah, "Gender Equity in the 'Sharing' Economy: Possibilities and Limitations" (updated)
76. *Stacy Alaimo, "Sustainable This, Sustainable That: New Materialisms, Posthumanism and Unknown Futures"
77. *Paola Ricaurte Quijano, "Reimagining AI"


Section 6
Introduction
78. Lila Abu-Lughod, "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others"
79. Beenash Jafri, "Not Your Indian Eco-Princess: Indigenous Women's Resistance to Environmental Degradation"
80. Elizabeth R. Cole and Zakiya T. Luna, "Making Coalitions Work: Solidarity Across Difference Within US Feminism"
81. *adrienne maree brown, "Spells and Practices for Emergent Strategies"
82. *Johanna Hedva, "Sick Woman Theory"
83. *Sarah J Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brook Foucault Welles, "#GirlsLikeUs: Trans Feminist Advocacy and Community Building"
84. Wangari Maathai, "An Unbreakable Link: Peace, Environment, and Democracy"
85. *Anna M. Moncada Storti, "Abolition Feminism and the Asian American Movement" (new)
86. Guerrilla Girls, "When Racism & Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable"
87. Alison Bechdel, "The Bechdel Test"
88. *Rosita Scerbo, "Reimagining Black Femininity: Afro-Latina's Decolonial Aesthetics and AfroARTivism" (new)
89. *Raphael H. Martins, Pedro Vieira, and Cara Snyder, "Introducing the MBB: Brazil's First Trans futebol Team" (new)
90. *Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, "Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access"
91. Heather Rellihan, "An Interview with Tarana Burke"

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