Women, Culture and Society: A Reader
Edition: 5
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 420
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This book encourages students to rethink and revise the connections proposed in this reader, and make anew the significance of these texts in their own lives. These big concepts should encourage discussion, debate, and thought.
- Full text of major essays
- Contemporary issues including: masculinity studies, disability studies, war, terrorism, prisons, fear of feminism, and gay marriage
- Classic essays and documents from first and second wave feminist thinkers
- Critiques of how the history of feminism has been written
Artilcles Include:
Becky Thompson - Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism
Judith Lorber - The Social Construction of Gender
Ruth Frankenberg - The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
Anne Fausto Sterling - The Five Sexes, revisited
Note: Asterisks indicate articles new to this edition.
Part One Categorizing Differences/Making Categories
1. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference, Audre Lorde
2. The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber
3. The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Ruth Frankenberg
4. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity, Michael S. Kimmel
5. Capitalism and Gay Identity, John D'Emilio
6. The Five Sexes, Revisited, Anne Fausto-Sterling
7. Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism, Uma Narayan
Part Two What Is Feminism?
*8. Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies, Lisa Maria Hogeland
9. Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression, bell hooks
*10. Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America, Daniel Horowitz
*11. Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism, Becky Thompson
*12. Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis, Judy Rohrer
13. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
14. 1998 Declaration of Sentiments
15. Redstockings Manifesto, Redstockings
16. The Combahee River Collective Statement, Combahee River Collective
Part Three Bodies: Looked At, Lived In
17. Ways of Seeing, John Berger
18. Sex, Lies, and Advertising, Gloria Steinem
*19. Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship, Cecilia Hartley
20. The Continuum: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Weight Preoccupation, Catrina Brown
21. Between Fathers and Fetuses: The Social Construction of Male Reproduction and the Politics of Fetal Harm, Cynthia R. Daniels
22. Beyond "A Woman's Right to Choose": Feminist Ideas About Reproductive Rights, Rosalind Petchesky
Part Four Women Working
23. Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class Oppression, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
*24. Crippled Capitalists: The Inscription of Economic Dependence and the Challenge of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century America, Susan M. Yohn
25. The Globetrotting Sneaker, Cynthia Enloe
26. Running in Place, Virginia Valian
*27. Can This Marriage Be Saved? A Forum, Ellen Willis, et al
28. The Politics of Housework, Pat Mainardi
Part Five Violence
*29. Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures, Peggy Reeves Sanday
30. "Our Women"/"Their Women": Symbolic Boundaries, Territorial Markers, and Violence in the Balkans, Julie Mostov
*31. Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment, Angela Davis and Gina Dent
*32. Abu Ghraib: Arguing Against Exceptionalism, Jasbir K. Puar
Part Six Organizing Across Differences
33. Re-Rooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848, Nancy A. Hewitt
*34. "We Will No Longer Be Silent or Invisible": Latinas Organizing for Reproductive Justice, Elena R. Gutiérrez
*35. Rethinking Troubled Relations Between Women and Unions: Craft Unionism and Female Activism, Dorothy Sue Cobble
36. International Networking for Women's Human Rights, Charlotte Bunch with Peggy Antrobus, Samantha Frost, and Niamh Reilly
*37. Effective Organizing in Terrible Times: The Strategic Value of Human Rights for Transnational Anti-Racist Feminisms, Barbara Schulman
38. Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counterinsurgency, Charles Hirschkind and Saba Mahmood
Index
This book encourages students to rethink and revise the connections proposed in this reader, and make anew the significance of these texts in their own lives. These big concepts should encourage discussion, debate, and thought.
- Full text of major essays
- Contemporary issues including: masculinity studies, disability studies, war, terrorism, prisons, fear of feminism, and gay marriage
- Classic essays and documents from first and second wave feminist thinkers
- Critiques of how the history of feminism has been written
Artilcles Include:
Becky Thompson - Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism
Judith Lorber - The Social Construction of Gender
Ruth Frankenberg - The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
Anne Fausto Sterling - The Five Sexes, revisited
Note: Asterisks indicate articles new to this edition.
Part One Categorizing Differences/Making Categories
1. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference, Audre Lorde
2. The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber
3. The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Ruth Frankenberg
4. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity, Michael S. Kimmel
5. Capitalism and Gay Identity, John D'Emilio
6. The Five Sexes, Revisited, Anne Fausto-Sterling
7. Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism, Uma Narayan
Part Two What Is Feminism?
*8. Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies, Lisa Maria Hogeland
9. Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression, bell hooks
*10. Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America, Daniel Horowitz
*11. Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism, Becky Thompson
*12. Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis, Judy Rohrer
13. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
14. 1998 Declaration of Sentiments
15. Redstockings Manifesto, Redstockings
16. The Combahee River Collective Statement, Combahee River Collective
Part Three Bodies: Looked At, Lived In
17. Ways of Seeing, John Berger
18. Sex, Lies, and Advertising, Gloria Steinem
*19. Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship, Cecilia Hartley
20. The Continuum: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Weight Preoccupation, Catrina Brown
21. Between Fathers and Fetuses: The Social Construction of Male Reproduction and the Politics of Fetal Harm, Cynthia R. Daniels
22. Beyond "A Woman's Right to Choose": Feminist Ideas About Reproductive Rights, Rosalind Petchesky
Part Four Women Working
23. Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class Oppression, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
*24. Crippled Capitalists: The Inscription of Economic Dependence and the Challenge of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century America, Susan M. Yohn
25. The Globetrotting Sneaker, Cynthia Enloe
26. Running in Place, Virginia Valian
*27. Can This Marriage Be Saved? A Forum, Ellen Willis, et al
28. The Politics of Housework, Pat Mainardi
Part Five Violence
*29. Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures, Peggy Reeves Sanday
30. "Our Women"/"Their Women": Symbolic Boundaries, Territorial Markers, and Violence in the Balkans, Julie Mostov
*31. Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment, Angela Davis and Gina Dent
*32. Abu Ghraib: Arguing Against Exceptionalism, Jasbir K. Puar
Part Six Organizing Across Differences
33. Re-Rooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848, Nancy A. Hewitt
*34. "We Will No Longer Be Silent or Invisible": Latinas Organizing for Reproductive Justice, Elena R. Gutiérrez
*35. Rethinking Troubled Relations Between Women and Unions: Craft Unionism and Female Activism, Dorothy Sue Cobble
36. International Networking for Women's Human Rights, Charlotte Bunch with Peggy Antrobus, Samantha Frost, and Niamh Reilly
*37. Effective Organizing in Terrible Times: The Strategic Value of Human Rights for Transnational Anti-Racist Feminisms, Barbara Schulman
38. Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counterinsurgency, Charles Hirschkind and Saba Mahmood
Index