Talking Gender

by Hewitt, Nancy A.; O'Barr, Jean F.; Rosebaugh, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780807822883
• ISBN10: 0807822884
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the prospective of their own academic disciplines and experience, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
How Putting the Man in Roman Put the Roman in Romance	p. 14
Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma	p. 36
MacKinnon's Dog: Antiporn's Canine Conditioning	p. 65
Writing "Kibbutz Journal": Borders, Voices, and the Traffic In Between	p. 84
Private Lives, Public Personae: A Look at Early Twentieth-Century African American Clubwomen	p. 106
Classroom Fictions: My Tongue Is in My Friend's Mouth	p. 124
Smothering in Stereotypes: HIV-Positive Women	p. 137
Men and Women's Studies: Premises, Perils, and Promise	p. 153
Feminists Try On the Post-Cold War Sneaker	p. 167
Afterword	p. 190
Notes on the Contributors	p. 199
Index	p. 203
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