Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Classic and Contemporary Readings
4. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-07-351228-0
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1138 g

Women’s Voices is an introductory women's studies reader crafted to include a balance of recent contemporary readings with historical and classic pieces. This student-friendly text provides short, accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. This new edition includes revised chapter framework essays that reflect the most up-to-date research and theory in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Susan

Lee, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 ADRIENNE RICH Claiming an Education 2 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER AND AMY RICHARDS A Day Without Feminism3 DEBORAH SIEGEL The Movement That Has No Name 4 BELL HOOKS Feminist Politics: Where We Stand 5 REBECCA WALKER We Are Using This Power to Resist6 ESTELLE B. FREEDMAN The Global Stage and the Politics of Location7 DEBORAH L. RHODE Denials of Inequality8 ANNA QUINDLEN Still Needing the F Word 2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality in Women’s Lives Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and InequalityInstitutions Ideology and Language9 PATRICIA HILL COLLINS Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection 10 MARILYN FRYE Oppression 11 LOIS KEITH Tomorrow I’m Going to Rewrite the English Language12 SUZANNE PHARR Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism13 PEGGY MCINTOSH White Privilege and Male Privilege14 GLORIA YAMATO Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name15 DONNA LANGSTON Tired of Playing Monopoly?16 BABA COPPER Voices: On Becoming Old Women17 SUSAN WENDELL The Social Construction of Disability 18 JUNE JORDAN Report from the Bahamas3 Learning Gender in a Diverse SocietyBiology and CultureMasculinityFemininity Gender Ranking19 ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING Two Sexes Are Not Enough20 JUDITH LORBER The Social Construction of Gender21 PAMELA J. BETTIS AND NATALIE GUICE ADAMS Short Skirts and Breast Juts: Cheerleading, Eroticism and Schools22 NELLIE WONG When I Was Growing Up23 JUDY WAJCMAN Virtual Gender24 DEBRA ROSENBERG (Rethinking) Gender25 R. W. CONNELL Masculinities and Globalization4 Sex, Power, and IntimacyThe Social Construction of SexualityThe Politics of Sexuality Intimacies 26 PEPPER SCHWARTZ AND VIRGINIA RUTTER Sexual Desire and Gender 27 BELL HOOKS Romance: Sweet Love 28 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER What Is Bisexuality?29 ELLEN BASS Gate C2230 CHERRIE MORAGA La Güera31 EMILY OXFORD Prue Shows Her Knickers 32 PAULA GUNN ALLEN Some Like Indians Endure 33 PINAR ILKKARACAN Women, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East5 Inscribing Gender on the BodyBodies, Nature, and WomenThe “Beauty” IdealEating DisordersResisting the “Beauty” Ideals 34 AMY BLOOM Hermaphrodites with Attitude35 JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG Breast Buds and the “Training” Bra 36 GLORIA STEINEM If Men Could Menstruate37 LISA R. RUBIN,MAKO L. FITTS, AND ANNE BECKER Body Ethics and Aesthetics Among African American and Latina Women38 ROSE WEITZ What We Do for Love39 LISA MIYA-JERVIS Hold That Nose40 COURTNEY E. MARTIN Love Your Fat Self41 MAYA ANGELOU Phenomenal Woman42 JONATHAN WATTS China’s Cosmetic Surgery Craze43 SIMONE WEIL DAVIS Designer Vaginas6 Health and Reproductive RightsHealth and WellnessReproductive Choice44 DAVID SATCHER,MD American Women and Health Disparities45 VIVIAN DICKINSON,MD The Tolling of the Bell: Women’s Health, Women’s Rights46 LINDA GORDON Is Nothing Simple About Reproduction Control?47 SELDON MCCURRIE Eyes on the Prize48 AGNES R. HOWARD AND NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Cursed by God? Two Essays on a Theme49 MARGARET SANGER My Fight for Birth Control50 JAEL SILLMAN,MARLENE GERBER FRIED,LORETTA ROSS, AND ELENA R. GUTIÉRREZ Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice51 ELEANOR COONEY The Way It Was7 Family Systems, Family LivesDefinition

Über Autor(innen)

Shaw, Susan
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.

Lee, Janet
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.