Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination : A Socialist-Feminist Reader

by Karen V. Hansen; Ilene J. Philipson

• ISBN13: 9780877226543
• ISBN10: 0877226547
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-12-01
• Publisher: Temple University Press

Summary

Author note: Karen V. Hansen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. >P>Ilene J. Philipson is on the faculty of the Psychology Graduate Program at the New College of California, San Francisco.

Table of Contents

1. Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination: An Introduction - llene J. Philipson and Karen V. HansenPart I: The PastSocialist Feminist Classics2. Women: The Longest Revolution - Juliet Mitchell3. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex - Gayle Rubin4. Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism - Zillah Eisenstein5. Capitalism, Patriarchy and Job Segregation by Sex - Heidi I. Han'mannSocialist-Feminist Organizations6. The Social Experience of Bread and Roses: Building a Community and Creating a Culture - Annie Popkin7. Women's Unions and the Search for a Political Identity - Karen V. Hansen8. The Rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study - Judith Sealander and Dorothy Smith9. Class, Race, and Reproductive Rights: Movement Work and its Contradictions - Adele Clarke and Alice WolfsonReevaluating Socialist Feminism10. life without Father: Reconsidering Socialist-Feminist Theory - Barbara Ehrenreich11. Conceptualizing and Changing Consciousness: Socialist-Feminist Perspectives - Sandra Morgen12. Capitalism without Patriarchy - Judith Van Allen13. The Impasse of Feminism: A Conversation - Deirdre English, Barbara Epstein, Barbara Haber, and Judy MacLeanPart II: The PresentFamily Life in Postindustrial America14. The Fading Dream: Economic Crisis and the New Inequality - Elliott Currie, Robert Dunn, and David Fogarty15. Sexism by a Subtler Name? Postindustrial Conditions and Postfeminist Consciousness in Silicon Valley - Judith Stacey16. Is the legacy of Second-Wave Feminism Post-Feminism? - Rayna Rapp17. Minority Families in Crisis: The Public Discussion - Maxine Baca Zinn18. Heterosexual Antagonisms and the Politics of Mothering - llene J. Philipson19. When Women and Men Mother - Diane EhrensattSexuality and Pornography20. I'm Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones and I'm Not Sure How I Feel about It: Pornography and the Feminist Imagination - Kate Ellis21. Beyond the Virgin and the Whore - Ilene J. Philipson22. Subverting Power in Sexuality - Lorna Weir and Leo CaseyWomen, Work, and the Labor Movement23. The Just Rice, the Free Market, and the Value of Women - Alice Kessler-Harris24. Feminist Political Discourses: Radical versus Liberal Approaches to the Feminization of Poverty and Comparable Worth - Johanna Brenner25. Radical Challenges in a Liberal World: The Mixed Success of Comparable Worth - Ronnie J. Steinberg26. The New Economy: Female Labor and the Office of the Future - Barbara BaranPart III: The Future27. The Future of Motherhood: Some Unfashionably Visionary Thoughts - Elayne Rapping28. Second Thoughts on the Second Wave - Deborah Rosenfelt and Judith Stacey29. The Race for Theory: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1990s - Barbara Christian30. A Manifesto for Cyborgs - Donna Haraway