Women : Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology

by Kesselman, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780767420891
• ISBN10: 0767420896
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women's studies. This best-selling text presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women's lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women's experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women's diverse approaches to living and changing.hanging.

Table of Contents

PART I WHAT IS WOMEN'S STUDIES?	7	(34)
Talking Back	15	(3)
Bell Hooks
Sins of Silence	18	(1)
Mai Kao Thao
Claiming an Education	19	(2)
Adrienne Rich
The Politics of Black Women's Studies	21	(3)
Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull
Barbara Smith
Men and Women's Studies: Premises, Perils, and Promise	24	(5)
Michael Kimmel
Have You Ever Heard of Asian-American Feminists?	29	(1)
Stacey G. H. Yap
Voices of Women's Studies Students	30	(5)
Women's Studies as a Growth Process	30	(1)
Danista Hunte
Finding My Latina Identity Through Women's Studies	31	(1)
Luana Ferreira
What Women's Studies Has Meant to Me	32	(1)
Lucita Woodis
Why Women's Studies?	33	(1)
Deborah Halstead Lennon
Women's Studies: A Man's Perspective	34	(1)
Evan Weissman
The American University and Women's Studies	35	(6)
Carol T. Christ
PART II BECOMING A WOMAN IN OUR SOCIETY	41	(4)
Dominant Ideas About Women	45	(23)
The Problem That Has No Name	46	(3)
Betty Friedan
A Work of Artifice	49	(1)
Marge Piercy
Purification	50	(4)
Gracepoore
To Be Real	54	(3)
Danzy Senna
Blazes of Truth	57	(3)
Susan Schnur
In Search of Liberation	60	(1)
Debra Kent
Brideland	61	(2)
Naomi Wolf
On Being a ``Good Girl'': Implications for Latinas in the United States	63	(4)
Elisa Davila
not a pretty girl	67	(1)
Ani Difranco
Learning Gender	68	(49)
The Gift	69	(1)
Murielle Minard
Klaus Barbie, and Other Dolls I'd Like to See	70	(3)
Susan Jane Gilman
Allegra Maud Goldman	73	(3)
Edith Konecky
Gender Equity in the Classroom: The Unfinished Agenda	76	(7)
Myra Sadker
David Sadker
Lynn Fox
Melinda Salata
Something's Wrong Here and It's Not Me: Challenging the Dilemmas That Block Girls' Success	83	(6)
Lee Anne Bell
The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior	89	(7)
Nancy Henley
Jo Freeman
Teen Mags: How to Get a Guy, Drop 20 Pounds, and Lose Your Self-Esteem	96	(3)
Anastasia Higginbotham
Media Images, Feminist Issues	99	(4)
Deborah L. Rhode
Female Images and Roles in Music	103	(3)
Venise T. Berry
Mutineers in Mainstream Music: Heralds of a New Feminist Wave?	106	(3)
Naomi Weisstein
Video	109	(1)
India.Arie
X: A Fabulous Child's Story	110	(7)
Lois Gould
PART III GENDER AND WOMEN'S BODIES	117	(5)
Female Beauty	122	(27)
The Beauty Myth	123	(5)
Naomi Wolf
When I Was Growing Up	128	(1)
Nellie Wong
To Other Women Who Were Ugly Once	129	(1)
Ines Hernandez-Avila
Nose Is a Country . . . I Am the Second Generation	130	(2)
Aishe Berger
Homage to My Hair	132	(1)
Lucille Clifton
One Spring	132	(1)
Leslea Newman
The Body Politic	133	(4)
Abra Fortune Chernik
Breaking the Model	137	(4)
Graciela (Chely) Rodriguez
Arroz Con Pollo vs. Slim-Fast	141	(2)
Linda Delgado
The Fat Girl Rules the World	143	(1)
July Siebecker
Homage to My Hips	144	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	144	(5)
Alice Walker
Sexuality and Relationships	149	(30)
Lusting for Freedom	150	(3)
Rebecca Walker
``We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do'': Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina-American Lives	153	(8)
Yen Le Espiritu
Esta Risa No Es De Loca	161	(3)
Caridad Souza
Safer Sex Is Real Sex	164	(3)
Zoe Leonard
Pleasures	167	(1)
Diane Hugs
Loving Another Woman	167	(5)
Anne Koedt
The Turn On	172	(3)
Marge Piercy
Bisexuality, Feminism, Men and Me	175	(4)
Robyn Ochs
PART IV INSTITUTIONS THAT SHAPE WOMEN'S LIVES	179	(8)
Women and Work	187	(28)
An Overview of Women and Work	188	(4)
Ellen Bravo
Gloria Santa Anna
Questions and Answers on Pay Equity	192	(3)
National Committee for Pay Equity
The Politics of Housework	195	(3)
Pat Mainardi of Redstockings
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued	198	(4)
Ann Crittenden
Friendly for Whose Family?	202	(1)
Betty Holcomb
9to5: Organizing Low-Wage Women	203	(4)
Ellen Bravo
Gloria Santa Anna
Sexual Harassment: An Overview of Its Impact on Women	207	(5)
Julia Whealin
In Case of Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Women Students	212	(2)
Bernice Sandler
Women	214	(1)
Alice Walker
Women, the Law, and Social Policy	215	(35)
Women and the Law	216	(9)
Kristian Miccio
How to Bring Children Up Without Putting Women Down	225	(6)
Ann Crittendon
Exploding the Stereotypes: Welfare	231	(5)
Rita Henley Jensen
Farewell to Welfare but Not to Poverty	236	(6)
Randy Albelda
Chris Tilly
Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color	242	(8)
Linda Burnham
Women and the Family	250	(31)
Family and Women's Lives	251	(5)
Susan Lehrer
Seventeen Syllables	256	(7)
Hisaye Yamamoto
A Long Story	263	(4)
Beth Brant
Elena	267	(1)
Pat Mora
``Don't You Talk About My Mama!''	267	(4)
June Jordan
Working at Single Bliss	271	(6)
Mary Helen Washington
A Marriage Agreement	277	(4)
Alix Kates Shulman
Women and Religion	281	(24)
My Church Threw Me Out	282	(2)
Mary Ann Sorrentino
Reactions to a Woman Rabbi	284	(2)
Laura Geller
Christian Fundamentalism: Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Human Rights	286	(6)
Susan D. Rose
Revelations	292	(5)
Linda Villarosa
In Her Own Image	297	(8)
Rose Solari
PART V HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM	305	(7)
The Health Care System	312	(20)
How Women Get Bad Medicine	313	(5)
Carol Stevens
Mandatory Doctor's Visit	318	(3)
Diane Hugs
Elizabeth Ramos	321	(2)
Bebe Nixon
Missing Persons: African-American Women, AIDS, and the History of Disease	323	(5)
Evelynn Hammonds
Breast Cancer: Is It the Environment?	328	(4)
Ms.
Reproductive Freedom	332	(23)
Abortion: Is a Woman a Person?	333	(3)
Ellen Willis
Lost Woman Song	336	(1)
Ani Difranco
Talking with the Enemy	336	(5)
Anne Fowler
Parental Consent Laws: Are They a ``Reasonable Compromise''?	341	(2)
Mike Males
Testimony of William Bell (on Raised Bill #5447)	343	(2)
Connecticut State Legislature
Using Pregnancy to Control Women	345	(4)
Ruth Hubbard
Killing the Black Body	349	(2)
Dorothy Roberts
Developing a Reproductive Rights Agenda for the Next Century	351	(4)
Kathryn Kolbert
PART VI THE DIFFERENCES AMONG US: DIVISIONS AND CONNECTIONS	355	(5)
``Take a Closer Look'': Racism in Women's Lives	360	(11)
Defining Racism: ``Can We Talk?''	360	(5)
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Codes of Conduct	365	(2)
Adrienne Su
Salad	367	(1)
Janice Mirikitani
I Am Not Your Princess	367	(1)
Chrystos
Take a Closer Look	368	(1)
Carrie Castro
An Autobiography (excerpt)	368	(3)
Angela Davis
The Legacy of Class	371	(23)
Tired of Playing Monopoly?	371	(4)
Donna Langston
Context	375	(2)
Dorothy Allison
Sisters	377	(10)
Barbara Neely
Jewish and Working Class	387	(3)
Bernice Mennis
Poverty, Hopelessness and Hope	390	(3)
Kendall A. Johnson
Grace Paley Reading	393	(1)
Toi Derricotte
``Are You Some Kind of Dyke?'': The Perils of Heterosexism	394	(18)
Homophobia and Sexism	394	(4)
Suzanne Pharr
Cat	398	(4)
Julie Blackwomon
Chicana Lesbians: Fear and Loathing in the Chicano Community	402	(4)
Carla Trujillo
Livin' in a Gay Family	406	(2)
Megan Mcguire
I Lost It at the Movies	408	(4)
Jewelle Gomez
Older, Wiser, and Marginalized: Ageism in Women's Lives	412	(11)
Older Women: The Realities	412	(5)
Older Women's League
The Women in the Tower	417	(5)
Cynthia Rich
The Day Nani Fell and I Wasn't There to Catch Her	422	(1)
Anna Marie Quevedo
Understanding and Valuing Difference	423	(20)
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	424	(3)
Peggy Mcintosh
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	427	(6)
Audre Lorde
Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of Hapa and Bisexual Identities	433	(6)
Beverly Yuen Thompson
Boundaries: Arab/American	439	(3)
Lisa Suhair Majaj
Friday Night	442	(1)
Linda Hogan
PART VII VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN	443	(4)
Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships	447	(21)
Battering: Who's Going to Stop It?	448	(6)
Ann Jones
Letter from a Battered Wife	454	(2)
Del Martin
The Club	456	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
Countdown	457	(5)
Lanette Fisher-Hertz
La Princesa	462	(2)
Latina Anonima
Holding Up More Than Half the Heavens	464	(4)
Margaretta Wan Lin
Cheng Imm Tan
Sexual Violence and Rape	468	(20)
Rape, the All-American Crime	469	(6)
Susan Griffin
The Shame of Silence	475	(2)
Athena Devlin
Whose Body Is It Anyway?	477	(3)
Pamela Fletcher
With No Immediate Cause	480	(1)
Ntosake Shange
Naming and Studying Acquaintance Rape	481	(7)
Peggy Reeves Sanday
Incestuous Sexual Abuse	488	(15)
Protecting Male Abusers and Punishing the Women Who Confront Them: The Current Status of Child-Sex Abuse in America	489	(6)
Lanette Fisher-Hertz
Making Sense of the Experience of Incest Survivors	495	(5)
Peri L. Rainbow
Fairy Summer---Or How I Learned to Wash Dishes	500	(1)
Ruth Innes
Bubba Esther, 1888	501	(2)
Ruth Whitman
PART VIII CHANGING OUR WORLD	503	(4)
Feminism as a Social Movement	507	(62)
History of Feminist Movements in the U.S.	509	(5)
Amy Kesselman
The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848	514	(3)
Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women	517	(1)
Consciousness Raising: A Radical Weapon	518	(2)
Kathie Sarachild
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective	520	(4)
Susan Brownmiller
Introduction to Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology	524	(6)
Barbara Smith
The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse	530	(8)
Alma Garcia
Thoughts on Indian Feminism	538	(1)
Kate Shanley
Presenting the Blue Goddess: Toward a National Pan-Asian Feminist Agenda	539	(3)
Sonia Shah
Blame It On Feminism	542	(8)
Susan Faludi
Bringing the Global Home	550	(7)
Charlotte Bunch
Advancing Women's Rights: Beijing `95 and After	557	(7)
Charlotte Bunch
Susana Fried
The Globetrotting Sneaker	564	(5)
Cynthia Enloe
Women Organizing: Many Issues, Many Voices	569	(42)
style no. 1	570	(1)
Sonia Sanchez
Becoming the Third Wave	570	(2)
Rebecca Walker
Why I Am an Activist	572	(4)
Nell Geiser
Voices	576	(7)
Women of Ace (Aids Counseling and Education), Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
Black Feminism at Twenty-One: Reflections on the Evolution of a National Community	583	(3)
Barbara Ramsby
``Each Day I Go Home with a New Wound in My Heart''	586	(4)
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence and Equality	590	(8)
Jodi Gold
Susan Villari
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future	598	(8)
Jennifer Baumgardner
Amy Richards
Voices of Women's Studies Graduates: Real Life: Women's Studies in Action	606	(5)
Lori Gross
Bringing Women's Studies to a Battered Women's Shelter	607	(1)
Colleen Farrell
Becoming a Feminist Physician	608	(3)
Sharon Thompson
Further Readings	611