Preface
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 ADRIENNE RICH | Claiming an Education 2 BEVERLY
GUY-SHEFTALL AND BONNIE THORNTON DILL | Forty Years of Women's
Studies: Origins and Intersections3 JANE O'REILLY | The Housewife's
Moment of Truth4 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER AND AMY RICHARDS | A Day
Without Feminism 5 BELL HOOKS | Feminist Politics: Where We Stand 6
CV HARQUAIL | Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by
Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary7 ANNA QUINDLEN | Still
Needing the F Word 8 MARGE PIERCY | My HeroinesDiscussion Questions
for Chapter 1Suggestions for Further Reading
2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality Difference, Hierarchy, and
Systems of Privilege and InequalityInstitutions Ideology 9 PATRICIA
HILL COLLINS | Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as
Categories of Analysis and Connection 10 MARILYN FRYE | Oppression
11 AUDRE LORDE| There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression12 SUZANNE PHARR
| Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism13 PEGGY MCINTOSH | White Privilege
and Male Privilege14 CHERRÍE MORAGA | What's Race Gotta Do with
It?15 FELICE YESKEL | Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the
Agenda16 ELLIE MAMBER | Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says17 SUSAN
WENDELL | The Social Construction of Disability 18 JUNE JORDAN |
Report from the BahamasDiscussion Questions for Chapter
2Suggestions for Further Reading
3 Learning Gender Biology and CultureMasculinityFemininity Gender
Ranking19 ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING | The Five Sexes, Revisited20 JUDITH
LORBER | The Social Construction of Gender21 CORDEILA FINE |
Unraveling Hardwiring22 EVELYN BLACKWOOD | Trans Identities and
Contigent Masculinities: Being Tombois in Everyday Practice23 DAVID
WEXLER | Shame-O-Phobia24 NELLIE WONG | When I Was Growing Up25
ISIS H. SETTLES, JENNIFER S. PRATT-HYATT, AND NICOLE BUCHANAN |
Through the Lens of Race: Black and White Women's Perception of
Womanhood26 DEBRA ROSENBERG | (Rethinking) GenderDiscussion
Questions for Chapter 3Suggestions for Further Reading
4 Sex, Power, and IntimacyThe Social Construction of SexualityThe
Politics of Sexuality Intimacies 27 JESSICA VALENTI | The Cult of
Virginity28 bell hooks | Romance: Sweet Love 29 JENNIFER
BAUMGARDNER | What Is Bisexuality?30 ELLEN BASS | Gate C2231 LEILA
RUPP | A World of Difference32 PAULA GUNN ALLEN | Some Like Indians
Endure 33 ELISA ALBERT | I'm Gonna Wash That King Right Out of My
Hair34 ANDREA SMITH | Dismantling Hierarchy, Queering Society35
KIMBERLY SPRINGER | Queering Black Female HeterosexualityDiscussion
Questions for Chapter 4Suggestions for Further Reading
5 Inscribing Gender on the BodyBodies, Nature, and WomenThe
“Beauty” IdealEating DisordersResisting “Beauty” Ideals 36 JOAN
JACOBS BRUMBERG | Breast Buds and the “Training” Bra 37 GLORIA
STEINEM | If Men Could Menstruate38 AIMEE MULLINS | Prosthetic
Power39 MARNI GROSSMAN | Beating Anorexia and Gaining Feminism40
LISA R. RUBIN, MAKO L. FITTS, AND ANNE E. BECKER | Body Ethics and
Aesthetics Among African American and Latina Women41 ROSE WEITZ |
What We Do for Love42 LISA MIYA-JERVIS | Hold That Nose43 COURTNEY
E. MARTIN | Love Your Fat Self44 JONATHAN WATTS | China’s Cosmetic
Surgery Craze45 SIMONE WEIL DAVIS | Designer VaginasDiscussion
Questions for Chapter 5Suggestions for Further Reading
6 Health and Reproductive RightsHealth and WellnessReproductive
Choice46 MARGARET SANGER | My Fight for Birth Control47 ELEANOR
COONEY | The Way It Was48 JOHN E. LEWIS, MARIA-JOSE MIGUEZ-BURBANO,
AND ROBERT M. MALOW | HIV Risk Behavior Among College Students in
the United States49 NANCY FUGATE WOODS | A Global Health Imperative
50 JENNIFER PARKS | Rethinking Radical Politics in the Context of
Assisted Reproductive Technology51 JAEL SILLMAN, MARLENE GERBER
FRIED, LORETTA ROSS, AND ELENA R. GUTIÉRREZ | Women of Color and
Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice52 SELDON MCCURRIE | Eyes on
the PrizeDiscussion Questions for Chapter 6Suggestions for Further
Reading
7 Family Systems, Family LivesDefinitions of FamilyInstitutional
ConnectionsPower and Family RelationshipsMothering 53 EMMA GOLDMAN
| Marriage and Love54 LISA MIYA-JERVIS | Who Wants to Marry a
Feminist?55 HEIDI BRUGGINK | Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Leslie
Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake56 CHARLENE GOMES | Partners as
Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage57 JOEL PRESTON
SMITH | Hardscrabble Salvation58 BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL | Lullabies
Behind Bars59 MAYA ANGELOU | Our GrandmothersDiscussion Questions
for Chapter 7Suggestions for Further Reading
8 Women’s Work Inside and Outside the HomeUnpaid Labor in the
HomePaid Labor60 PAT MAINARDI | The Politics of Housework61
SHARLENE HESSE-BIBER AND GREGG LEE CARTER | A Brief History of
Working Women62 BARBARA EHRENREICH | Maid to Order: The Politics of
Other Women’s Work63 MOMO CHANG | Color Me Nontoxic64 MARTHA BURK |
Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out65
CARRIE N. BAKER | The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment 66
CAROL LEIGH | The Strange Relationship Between Feminism and Sex
WorkDiscussion Questions for Chapter 8Suggestions for Further
Reading
9 Women Confronting and Creating CultureDigital
TechnologiesTelevisionThe MoviesContemporary Music and Music
VideosPrint MediaLiterature and the Arts67 VIRGINIA WOOLF |
Thinking About Shakespeare’s Sister68 EMILY DICKINSON | The Wife69
MELISSA SUE KORT | Jane Addiction 70 AUDRE LORDE | Poetry Is Not a
Luxury71 SUSAN DOUGLAS | Enlightened Sexism 72 AYA DE LEON | If
Women Ran Hip Hop73 CARLEN LAVIGNE | Death Wore Black Chiffon: Sex
and Gender in CSI74 JOAN ACOCELLA AND JOHANNAH COUSINS | Singing
and Dancing with Gender: Two Essays on Reality TV75 AMANDA LENHART
| Sexting76 ALISON PIEPMEIER | Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines Doing
FeminismDiscussion Questions for Chapter 9Suggestions for Further
Reading
10 Resisting Violence Against WomenRapeBattering and Physical
AbuseIncestPornography77 ANDREA SMITH | Beyond the Politics of
Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights78
MARIAH LOCKWOOD | She Said79 MIMI SWARTZ | The Lost Girls 80 DEBRA
ANNE DAVIS | Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence
Knocks and Politeness Answers?81 TAKYIWAA MANUH AND ADOLF AWUKU
BEKOE | Confronting Violence82 DONNA ST. GEORGE | Textual
Harassment 83 GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES | Lisa’s Ritual, Age 1084
NILANJANA S. ROY, JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, AND NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Rape
and War: Three Essays on a ThemeDiscussion Questions for Chapter
10Suggestions for Further Reading
11 State, Law, and Social PolicyGovernment and RepresentationWomen
and the Law Public PolicyThe Criminal Justice SystemThe Military85
SUSAN B. ANTHONY | Constitutional Argument86 GAYLYNN BURROUGHS |
Too Poor to Parent87 LIBBY SANDER AND DAVID MOLTZ | Title IX
Update: Two Essays88 ANDREA DOYLE HUGMEYER | Delinquent Girls89
HELEN BENEDICT | The Plight of Women Soldiers90 SHAHNAZ KHAN | From
Rescue to Recognition: Rethinking the Afghan Conflict91 ALEKSANDRA
DJAJIC-HORVÁTH | First Morning in Exile Discussion Questions for
Chapter 11Suggestions for Further Reading
12 Religion and Spirituality Religion as Oppressive to
WomenReligion as Empowering to WomenWomen and
God-LanguageReinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing
Traditions Creating New Spiritual Traditions92 ELIZABETH CADY
STANTON | Introduction to The Woman’s Bible93 KAYLIN HAUGHT | God
Says Yes to Me94 KAREN MCCARTHY BROWN | Fundamentalism and the
Control of Women95 SYLVIA MARCOS | Decolonizing Religious Beliefs
96 AN INTERVIEW WITH SYAFA ALMIRZANAH | The Prophet's Daughter97
JUDITH PLASKOW | Standing Again at Sinai98 ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER |
Everywoman Her Own Theology99 CARYN D. RISWOLD | Feminist Questions
of Christianity100 MEGAN SWEAS | Catholic and Feminist: You Got a
Problem with That?Discussion Questions for Chapter 12Suggestions
for Further Reading
13 Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures The Promise of Feminist
EducationActivismFuture Visions101 LISA MARIE HOGELAND | Fear of
Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies102 PHYLLIS ROSSER | Too
Many Women in College?103 MICHAEL KIMMEL | Real Men Join the
Movement104 NATALIE MERCHANT | Wonder105 RUTH ROSEN | Epilogue:
Beyond Backlash106 KATHA POLLITT | Amber Waves of Blame107 MOYA
BAILEY AND ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS | We Are the Ones We've Been
Waiting For108 JENNY JOSEPH | WarningDiscussion Questions for
Chapter 13Suggestions for Further Reading
CreditsIndex
Susan M. Shaw is Director of the Women Studies Program at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. from Southern Seminary in 1987 and taught Religious Studies for eight years before joining the Women Studies faculty at OSU in 1996. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the University Continuing Education Association's 2002 Meritorious Course Award for her web-based version of OSU's introductory women's studies course. She is the author of Storytelling in Religious Education.ation. Janet Lee is Professor of Women Studies at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1985 and served as Director of OSU's Women Studies Program from 1991-2002. She recently received the OSU College of Liberal Arts Excellence Award that recognizes distinguished teaching, scholarship, and service. She is the author of Blood Stories: Menarche and the Politics of the Female Body in U.S. Society (with Jennifer Sasser-Coen) and Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester.
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