9780072887181

An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World

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  • Edition: 2nd
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  • Copyright: 2005-06-07
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Summary

This anthology introduces students to the modern period's history of key ideas related to sexual difference, gender, race, class, and sexuality. While most introductory Women's Studies textbooks focus on the United States, even if they add multiculturalism to the discussion, this book looks at women in diverse locations around the world and encourages students to think about gender in a transnational rather than a purely U.S. context. The selections provide students in the U.S. with a way to understand points of view from other locations and cultures, especially crucial in the post-9-11 geopolitical situation.The transnational approach to understanding gender brings Women's Studies into an era of globalization by connecting women's issues in the United States to women's issues elsewhere. The book shows how colonialism and imperialism, as they spread across the world, shaped ideas about gender as much as other modern phenomena. It addresses issues of power and inequality by focusing on historical connections rather than solely on commonalties.The readings are truly interdisciplinary, drawing upon scholarly work in many disciplines and interdisciplinary fields as well as non-scholarly sources. Short essays introduce each of the book's four sections, explaining the concepts and ideas behind the selection of readings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xv
Preface to the Second Edition xvii
Introducing Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World xx
PART ONE: SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER 1(148)
Introductory Essay
1(5)
SECTION 1: Sex Differences and Changing Ideas of Gender
6(27)
A Nelly Oudshoorn, "Sex and the Body"
6(4)
B Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm"
10(5)
C Kathryn M. Ringrose, "Byzantine Medical Lore and the Gendering of Eunuchs"
15(6)
D Charlotte Furth, "Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China"
21(8)
E Carole S. Vance, "Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality"
29(4)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
32(1)
SECTION 2: The Rise of Western Science
33(19)
A Linda Gordon, "Magic"
33(2)
B Sheila Rowbotham, "Feminist Approaches to Technology"
35(6)
C Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Biological Connection"
41(2)
D Stephen Jay Gould, "Women's Brains"
43(4)
E Udo Schuklenk, Edward Stein, Jacinta Kerin, and William Byne, "The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation"
47(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
51(1)
SECTION 3: The Making of Race, Sex, and Empire
52(23)
A Ian F. Haney López, "The Social Construction of Race"
52(5)
B Linda Gordon, "Malthusianism"
57(3)
C Anna Davin, "Imperialism and Motherhood"
60(6)
D Frank Dikötter, "Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics"
66(3)
E Evelynn M. Hammonds, "New Technologies of Race"
69(6)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
74(1)
SECTION 4: Medicine in a Historical Perspective
75(24)
A Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, "And So I Grew Up"
75(2)
B Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English, "Exorcising the Midwives"
77(3)
C David Arnold, "Women and Medicine"
80(5)
D Ben Barker-Benfield, "Sexual Surgery in Late-Nineteenth-Century America"
85(6)
E Rogaia Abusharaf, "Unmasking Tradition"
91(8)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
98(1)
SECTION 5: Population Control and Reproductive Rights: Technology and Power
99(20)
A Susan Davis, "Contested Terrain: The Historical Struggle for Fertility Control"
99(4)
B Angela Davis, "Reproductive Rights"
103(4)
C Betsy Hartmann, "Family Matters"
107(5)
D Committee on Women, Population and the Environment, "Call for a New Approach"
112(2)
E Debra Harry, "The Human Genome Diversity Project: Implications for Indigenous Peoples"
114(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
118(1)
SECTION 6: Strategizing Health Education and Advocacy
119(30)
A Maureen Larkin, "Global Aspects of Health and Health Policy in Third World Countries"
119(10)
B Sandra Morgen, "Conceiving History"
129(4)
C Nadia Farah, "The Egyptian Women's Health Book Collective"
133(2)
D Andrea Densham, "CDC, NIH, ACS, FDA-Alphabet City: The Institutional and Organizational Terrain of Breast Cancer and AIDS Activism"
135(3)
E Kathryn Carovano, "More Than Mothers and Whores: Redefining the AIDS Prevention Needs of Women"
138(4)
F Sabine Russell, "The Role of Prostitution in South Asia's Epidemic: Push for Safe Sex in Red-Light Districts"
142(2)
G National Latina Health Organization, "Norplant Information Sheet"
144(11)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
147(2)
PART TWO: GENDERED IDENTITIES IN NATIONS AND STATES 149(116)
Introductory Essay
149(6)
SECTION 7: Citizenship and Equality: The Private/Public Divide
155(19)
A Carole Pateman, "Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy"
155(5)
B Amy Kaplan, "Manifest Domesticity"
160(4)
C Mary Wollstonecraft, Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
164(3)
D Jan Jindy Pettman, "Women and Citizenship"
167(3)
E Athalia Molokomme, Lelobe Molema, Opha Dube, Motsei Madisa, Ruth Motsete, and Onalenna Selowane, "Citizenship: An Open Letter to the Attorney-General"
170(4)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
173(1)
SECTION 8: Gender and the Rise of the Modern State
174(21)
A Jan Jindy Pettman, "Women, Gender, and the State"
174(7)
B Jeffrey Weeks, "Power and the State"
181(4)
C Margot Badran, "Competing Agenda: Feminists, Islam, and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt"
185(5)
D Gail Bederman, "Remaking Manhood through Race and 'Civilization-
190(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
194(1)
SECTION 9: New Social Movements and Identity Politics
195(22)
A Kathryn Woodward, "Concepts of Identity and Difference"
195(3)
B Alexandra Kollontai, "Feminism and the Question of Class"
198(2)
C Kimberlé Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color"
200(7)
D Alma M. Garcia, "The Development of Chicano Feminist Discourse"
207(4)
E Lisa Duggan, "Making It Perfectly Queer"
211(6)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
216(1)
SECTION 10: Communities and Nations
217(23)
A Nira Yuval-Davis, "Gender and Nation"
217(5)
B Cynthia Enloe, "Nationalism and Masculinity"
222(7)
C Amrita Basu, "Feminism Inverted: The Gendered Imagery and Real Women of Hindu Nationalism"
229(5)
D Kathleen M. Blee, "The First Ku Klux Klan"
234(6)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
239(1)
SECTION 11: Feminist Organizing across Borders
240(25)
A Leila J. Rupp, "The International First Wave"
240(5)
B Farida Shaheed, "Controlled or Autonomous: Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living under Muslim Laws"
245(4)
C Lepa Mladjenovic and Vera Litricin, "Belgrade Feminists 1992: Separation, Guilt, and Identity Crisis"
249(5)
D Winnie Woodhull, "Global Feminists, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production"
254(6)
E Laura Hershey, "Disabled Women Organize Worldwide"
260(9)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
263(2)
PART THREE: REPRESENTATIONS, CULTURES, MEDIA, AND MARKETS 265(118)
Introductory Essay
265(4)
SECTION 12: Ways of Seeing: Representation and Art Practices
269(13)
A John Berger, Excerpts from Ways of Seeing
269(4)
B Catherine King, "Making Things Mean: Cultural Representation in Objects"
273(3)
C Suzanne Lustig, "How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art World Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?"
276(6)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
281(1)
SECTION 13: Artistic Production and Reception
282(16)
A Judith Fryer Davidov, "Prologue"
282(4)
B Judith Halberstam, "Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race, and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene"
286(3)
C Andrea Weiss, "Female Pleasures and Perversions in the Silent and Early Sound Cinema"
289(4)
D Lila Abu-Lughod, "The Interpretation of Culturelsl after Television"
293(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
297(1)
SECTION 14: Gender and Literacy: The Rise of Print and Media Cultures
298(16)
A Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen, "The Bribe of Frankenstein"
298(3)
B Rassundari Devi, "The Sixth Composition"
301(3)
C Pat Dean, "Literacy: Liberation or Lip Service?"
304(1)
D M.S. Mlahleki, "Literacy: No Panacea for Women's Problems"
305(2)
E William Wresch, "World Media"
307(7)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
313(1)
SECTION 15: Representing Women in Colonial Contexts
314(15)
A Judith Williamson, "Woman Is an Island: Femininity and Colonization"
314(3)
B Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins, Excerpts from Reading National Geographic
317(4)
C Marnia Lazreg, "Feminism and Difference"
321(3)
D Sara Graham-Brown, Excerpt from Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East
324(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
328(1)
SECTION 16: Consumer Culture and the Business of Advertising
329(16)
A Robert Bocock, "Gender and Consumption"
329(2)
B Elaine S. Abelson, "Urban Women and the Emergence of Shopping"
331(7)
C Jennifer Scanlon, Excerpt from Inarticulate Longings
338(4)
D Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, "The Gay Marketing Moment"
342(3)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
344(1)
SECTION 17: Consumer Beauty Culture: Commodifying the Body
345(24)
A Rosalind Coward, "The Body Beautiful"
345(3)
B Nancy Worcester, "Nourishing Ourselves"
348(8)
C Roland Marchand, "Grotesque Moderne"
356(3)
D Celestine Bohlen, "Italians Contemplate Beauty in a Caribbean Brow"
359(2)
E Barry Bearak, "Ugliness in India over Miss World"
361(2)
F Rone Tempest, "Barbie and the World Economy"
363(6)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
368(1)
SECTION 18: Cyberculture
369(14)
A Somini Sengupta, "When Do-Gooders Don't Know What They're Doing"
369(2)
B Juana Maria Rodriguez, "'Welcome to the Global Stage': Confessions of a Latina Cyber-Slut"
371(4)
C Vernadette V. Gonzalez and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, "Filipina.com: Wives, Workers, and Whores on the Cyber Frontier"
375(13)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
381(2)
PART FOUR: GENDERING GLOBALIZATION AND DISPLACEMENT 383(113)
Introductory Essay
383(5)
SECTION 19: Travel and Tourism
388(23)
A Cynthia Enloe, "On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism"
388(8)
B Mary Seacole, "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"
396(4)
C Sylvia M. Jacobs, "Give a Thought to Africa: Black Women Missionaries in Southern Africa"
400(6)
D Sylvia Chant, "Female Employment in Puerto Vallarta: A Case Study"
406(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
410(1)
SECTION 20: Forced Relocations and Removals
411(16)
A Lydia Potts, Excerpt from The World Labor Market: A History of Migration
411(4)
B Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis, Excerpt from Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
415(4)
C Phil Marfleet, "The Refugee"
419(2)
D Ayesha Khan, "Afghan Refugee Women's Experience of Conflict and Disintegration"
421(6)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
426(1)
SECTION 21: Diasporas
427(17)
A Stuart Hall, "From 'Routes' to Roots"
427(1)
B Claudette Williams, "Gal...You Come from Foreign"
428(7)
C Mimi Nguyen, "Viet Nam: Journal/Journey"
435(5)
D Ella Shohat, "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew"
440(4)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
443(1)
SECTION 22: Women, Work, and Immigration
444(19)
A Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "Women and Labor Migration"
444(5)
B Leslie Salzinger, "A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of 'Dirty Work' by Central American Immigrants"
449(4)
C Rigoberta Menchú, "A Maid in the Capital"
453(5)
D Satoko Watenabe, "From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as Autonomous Subjects"
458(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
462(1)
SECTION 23: The Gender Politics of Economic Globalization
463(16)
A Augusta Dwyer, "Welcome to the Border"
463(4)
B Human Rights Watch, "Sex Discrimination in the Maquiladoras"
467(2)
C Amber Ault and Eve Sandberg, "Our Policies, Their Consequences: Zambian Women's Lives under Structural Adjustment"
469(5)
D Faye V. Harrison, "The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica"
474(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
478(1)
SECTION 24: Global Food Production and Consumption
479(17)
A Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice, "Tomasito's Guide to Economic Integration: A Whirlwind Tour with Your Guide Tomasito, the Tomato"
479(2)
B Martha McMahon, "Resisting Globalization: Women Organic Farmers and Local Food Systems"
481(4)
C Helen Zweifel, "The Gendered Nature of Biodiversity Conservation"
485(6)
D Nancy Worcester, "The Obesity of the Food Industry"
491(5)
REFLECTING ON THE SECTION
495(1)
CONCLUSION: FEMINIST FUTURES: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 496
Concluding Comment
496(1)
A Cynthia Enloe, "Beyond the Global Victim"
496
REFLECTING ON THE CONCLUSION
498
Bibliography: Works Excerpted B1
List of Illustrations I1
Credits C1
Index IN1

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