Women's voices, feminist visions : classic and contemporary readings / [edited by] Susan M. Shaw & Janet Lee.
As a leading introductory women's studies reader, Shaw and Lee's Women's Voices, Feminist Visions offers and excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings ref...
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New York :
McGraw-Hill,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices ; What Is Women's Studies? ; How Did Women's Studies Come About? ; What Were the Origins of Women's Rights Activism in the United States? ; What Is the Status of Women's Studies on College Campuses Today? ; What Does Women's Studies Have to Do with Feminism? ; What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism?
- 1 Claiming an Education / Adrienne Rich
- 2 Forty Years of Women's Studies: Origins and Intersections / Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Bonnie Thorton Dill
- 3 The Housewife's Moment of Truth / Jane O'Reilly
- 4 A Day Without Feminism / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
- 5 Feminist Politics: Where We Stand / Bell Hooks
- 6 Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary / CV Harquail
- 7 Still Needing the F Word / Anna Quindlen
- 8 My Heroines / Marge Piercy.
- 2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality ; Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality ; Institutions ; Ideology
- 9 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection / Patricia Hill Collins
- 10 Oppression / Marilyn Frye
- 11 There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression / Audre Lorde
- 12 Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism / Suzanne Pharr
- 13 White Privilege and Male Privilege / Peggy McIntosh
- 14 What's Race Gotta Do with It? / Cherrie Moraga
- 15 Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda / Felice Yeskel
- Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says / Ellie Mamber
- 17 The Social Construction of Disability / Susan Wendell
- 18 Report from the Bahamas / June Jordan
- 3 Learning Gender ; Biology and Culture ; Masculinity ; Femininity ; Gender Ranking
- 19 The Five Sexes, Revisited / Anne Fausto-Sterling
- 20 The Social Construction of Gender / Judith Lorber
- 21 Unraveling Hardwiring / Cordelia Fine
- 22 Trans Identities and Contigent Masculinities: Being Tombois in Everyday Practice / Evelyn Blackwood
- 23 Shame-O-Phobia / David Wexler
- 24 When I Was Growing Up / Nellie Wong
- 25 Through the Lens of Race: Black and White Women's Perception of Womanhood / Isis H. Settlers, Jennifer S. Pratt-Hyatt, and Nicole T. Buchanan
- 26 (Rethinking) Gender Discussion / Debra Rosenberg.
- 6 Health and Reproductive Rights ; Health and Wellness ; Reproductive Choice
- 46 My Fight for Birth Control / Margaret Sanger
- 47 The Way It Was / Eleanor Cooney
- 48 HIV Risk Behavior Among College Students in the United States / John E. Lewis, Maria-Jose Miguez-Burbano, and Robert M. Malow
- 49 A Global Health Imperative / Nancy Fugate Woods
- 50 Rethinking Radical Politics in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology / Jennifer Parks
- 51 Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice / Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutierrez
- 52 Eyes on the Prize / Seldon McCurrie
- 7 Family Systems, Family Lives ; Definitions of Family ; Institutional Connections ; Power and Family Relationships ; Mothering
- 53 Marriage and Love / Emma Goldman
- 54 Who Wants to Marry a Feminist? / Lisa Miya-Jervis
- 55 Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake / Heidi Bruggink
- 56 Partners as Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage / Charlene Gomes
- 57 Hardscrabble Salvation / Joel Preston Smith
- 58 Lullabies Behind Bars / Beth Schwartzapfel
- 59 Our Grandmothers / Maya Angelou
- 8 Women's Work Inside and Outside the Home ; Unpaid Labor in the Home ; Paid Labor
- 60 The Politics of Housework / Pat Mainardi
- 61 A Brief History of Working Women / Sharlene Hess-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter
- 62 Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work / Barbara Ehrenreich
- 63 Color Me Nontoxic / Momo Chang
- 64 Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out / Martha Burk
- 65 The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment / Carrie N. Baker
- 66 The Strange Relationship Between Feminism and Sex Work / Carol Leigh.
- 9 Women Confronting and Creating Culture Digital ; Technologies ; Television ; The Movies ; Contemporary Music and Music Videos ; Print Media ; Literature and the Arts
- 67 Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister / Virginia Woolf
- 68 The Wife / Emily Dickinson
- 69 Jane Addiction / Melissa Sue Kort
- 70 Poetry Is Not a Luxury / Audre Lorde
- 71 Enlightened Sexism / Susan Douglas
- 72 If Women Ran Hip Hop / Aya De Leon
- 73 Death Wore Black Chiffon: Sex and Gender in CSI / Carlen Lavigne
- 74 Singing and Dancing with Gender: Two Essays on Reality TV / Joan Acocella and Johannah Cousins
- 75 Sexting / Amanda Lenhart
- 76 Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines Doing Feminism / Alison Piepmeier
- 10 Resisting Violence Against Women ; Rape ; Battering and Physical Abuse ; Incest ; Pornography
- 77 Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights / Andrea Smith
- 78 She Said / Mariah Smith
- 79 The Lost Girls / Mimi Swartz
- 80 Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers? / Debra Anne Davis
- 81 Confronting Violence / Takyiwaa Manuh and Adolf Awuku Bekoe
- 82 Textual Harassment / Donna St. George
- 83 Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 / Grace Caroline Bridges
- 84 Rape and War: Three Essays on a Theme / Nilanjana S. Roy, Jeffrey Gettleman, and Nicholas D. Kristof
- 11 State, Law, and Social Policy ; Government and Representation ; Women and the Law ; Public Policy ; The Criminal Justice System ; The Military
- 85 Constitutional Argument / Susan B. Anthony
- 86 Too Poor to Parent / Gaylynn Burroughs
- 87 Title IX Update: Two Essays / Libby Sander and David Moltz
- 88 Delinquent Girls / Andrea Doyle Hugmeyer
- 89 The Plight of Women Soldiers / Helen Benedict
- 90 From Rescue to Recognition: Rethinking the Afghan Conflict / Shahnaz Khan.
- 91 First Morning in Exile / Aleksandra Djajic-Horvath
- 12 Religion and Spirituality ; Religion as Oppressive to Women ; Religion as Empowering to Women ; Women and God-Language ; Reinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing Traditions ; Creating New Spiritual Traditions
- 92 Introduction to The Woman's Bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- 93 God Says Yes to Me / Kaylin Haught
- 94 Fundamentalism and the Control of Women / Karen McCarthy
- 95 Decolonizing Religious Beliefs / Sylvia Marcos
- 96 The Prophet's Daughter / an interview with Syafa Almirzanah
- 97 Standing Again at Sinai / Judith Plaskow
- 98 Everywoman Her Own Theology / Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- 99 Feminist Questions of Christianity / Caryn D. Riswold
- 100 Catholic and Feminist: You Got a Problem with That? / Megan Sweas
- 13 Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures ; The Promise of Feminist Education ; Activism Future Visions
- 101 Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies / Lisa Marie Hogeland
- 102 Too Many Women in College? / Phyllis Rosser
- 103 Real Men Join the Movement / Michael Kimmel
- 104 Wonder / Natalie Merchant
- 105 Epilogue: Beyond Backlash / Ruth Rosen
- 106 Amber Waves of Blame / Katha Pollitt
- 107 We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For / Moya Bailey and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- 108 Warning / Jenny Joseph.