Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives

* Indicates New ReadingPreface Introduction: The Framework of This Book The Focus of Women’s Studies The Framework for This Book: Collective Action for a Sustainable Future An Activist Approach A Sustainable and Secure Future The United States in a Global Context Linking the Personal and the GlobalA Matrix of Oppression and Resistance Feminisms: Tangling with the “F” Word Myth 1: Women’s Studies is Ideological Myth 2: Women’s Studies is a White, Middle-Class Thing Myth 3: Women’s Studies is Narrowly Concerned with Women’s IssuesScope of the BookPart 1 KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDINGChapter One. Theories and Theorizing: Integrative Frameworks for UnderstandingDefinition of a Theory Theories, Theorizing, and Ways of Knowing The Dominant Perspective Alternative Perspectives The Role of ValuesTheoretical Frameworks for Understanding Women’s Lives “Socially Lived” Theorizing Media Representations and the Creation of Knowledge Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action1. Judith Lorber, “The Social Construction of Gender” 2. Allan G. Johnson, “Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us” 3. Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement”*4. Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Who Am I If I’m Not My Father’s Daughter?”5. JeeYeun Lee, “Beyond Bean Counting”*6. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation”*7. Onnesha Roychoudhuri,Worldviews— news mediaChapter Two. Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People?Being Myself: The Micro Level Community Recognition, Expectations, and Interactions: The Meso Level Social Categories, Classifications, and Structural Inequality: Macro and Global Levels Maintaining Systems of Structural Inequality Colonization, Immigration, and the U.S. Landscape of Race and ClassMultiple Identities, Social Location, and Contradictions Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action8. Frederica Y. Daly, “Perspectives of Native American Women on Race and Gender” 9. Dorothy Allison, “A Question of Class” *10. Gwendolyn D. Pough, “Love Feminism but Where’s My Hip Hop? Shaping a Black Feminist Identity”*11. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, "Jews in the U.S.: The Rising Costs of Whiteness"*12. Amani Elkassabani, “Hanaan’s House”13. Elizabeth Martínez, “A Word about the Great Terminology Question”14. Mary C. Waters, “Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?”Part 2. OUR BODIES, OURSELVESChapter Three. Women’s Bodies and Beauty IdealsBody Image and the Beauty Ideal The Beauty Ideal The Beauty Business Commodification and Co-option Whites Only? Forever Young? Always Able?Resisting Beauty Stereotypes Feminist Theorizing about Body Image and Beauty Ideals Body Politics Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action*15. Jean Kilbourne, “ ‘The More You Subtract, the More You Add’: Cutting Girls Down to Size”16. Abra Fortune Chernik, “The Body Politic”*17. Toni Morrison, "The Coming of Maureen Peal"18. Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Story of My Body”19. Lani Ka’ahumanu, “My Body is a Map of My Life”20. Cheryl Marie Wade, “I Am Not One of the” *21. Rosemarie Garland Thomson, “Feminist Theory, the Body, and the Disabled Figure”Chapter Four. Women’s SexualityStereotypes, Contradictions, and Double Standards What Is Women’s Autonomous Sexuality? Challenging Binaries Theorizing Sexuality The Erotic as Power Activism and Sexuality Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action22. Sandra Cisneros, “Guadalupe the Sex Goddess”23. Naomi Wolf, “Radical Heterosexuality”24. June Jordan, “A New Politics of Sexuality”*25. Diane Raymond, "Popular Culture and Queer Representation" 26. Surina Khan, “The All-American Queer Pakistani Girl”27. Leslie Feinberg, “We Are All Works in Progress”28. Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”Chapter Five. Women’s HealthReproductive Health Controlling Fertility Medicalization of Reproductive LifeWomen and Illness Effects of Gender, Race, and Class Mental and Emotional Health Health and AgingThe Medical Industry Paying for Medical Care Other Barriers and Biases in Medical Services and ResearchHealth as Wellness Requirements for Good Health Feminist Approaches to WellnessQuestions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action29. Joy Harjo, ”Three Generations of Native American Women’s Birth Experience” 30. Marsha Saxton, "Reproductive Rights: A Disability Rights Issue"*31.Judith Arcana,"Abortion is a Motherhood Issue"*32. Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, "Reproductive Justice: Vision, Analysis, and Action for a Stronger Movement" (2005)33. *33. bell hooks, “Living to Love”34. Mary Jane Knopf-Newman, "Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer"Chapter Six. Violence against WomenWhat Counts as Violence against Women? The Incidence of Violence against Women Effects of Race, Class, Nation, Sexuality, and DisabilityExplanations of Violence against Women Micro-level explanations Macro-level explanationsEnding Violence against Women The Importance of a Political Movement Providing Support for Victims/Survivors Public and Professional Education Policy and Legislative InitiativesContradiction of Seeking State Support to End Violence against Women Women’s Rights as Human Rights Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action35. Grace Caroline Bridges, “Lisa’s Ritual, Age 10” 36. Aurora Levins Morales, “Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood”*37. John Stoltenberg, “ ‘I am Not a Rapist!’ Why College Guys are Confronting Sexual Violence” *38. Lora Jo Foo “Domestic Violence and Asian American Women”39. Andy Smith, “Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide”40. Eve Ensler, “My Vagina Was My Village”Part 3. MAKING A HOME, MAKING A LIVINGChapter Seven. Relationships, Families, and HouseholdsDefining Ourselves through Connections with Others Marriage and Domestic Partnership Motherhood and Parenting The Ideal Nuclear Family U.S. Families: Cultural and Historical Variations Immigration and the FamilyFeminist Perspectives Challenging the Private/Public Dichotomy Mothering and Maternal Thinking The Family and the Economic System Policy Implications and ImplementationToward a Redefinition of Family Values Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action*41. Paula Ettelbrick, "Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?"42. Sharon Olds, “35/10” 43. Carol Gill and Larry A. Voss, “Shattering Two Molds: Feminist Parents with Disabilities”*44. Ann Filmemyr, "Loving across the Boundary"*45. Rachel Aber Schlesinger, “Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L’Chol Dor Va Dor”*46. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, “Fundamentalism and the Family: Gender, Culture, and the American Pro-family Movement”47. Shailja Patel, "Shilling Love" Chapter Eight. Work, Wages, and WelfareDefining Women’s Work Women in the U.S. Workforce Women’s Wages: The Effects of Gender, Race, Class, Disability, and Education Discrimination against Working Women: Sexual Harassment, Age, and Disability Balancing Home and Work Organized Labor and Collective ActionPensions, Disability Payments, and Welfare Pensions and Disability Payments WelfareFeminist Approaches to Women’s Work and Income Comparable Worth Feminization of Poverty Impact of Class Policy Implications and Activist ProjectsPromoting Greater Economic Security for Women Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action48. Hattie Gossett, “the cleaning woman/labor relations #4”*49. “He Works, She Works, but What Different Impressions They Make”*50. Shireen Lee, “The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism”*51. Ann Crittenden, “The Mommy Tax” *52. Veronica Chambers, “To Whom Much is Given, Much is Expected: Successful Women, Family, and Responsibility”*53. Nolita Clark and Shannon Stanfield with Vivyan Adair, "Remarkable Journeys: Poor, Single Mothers Accessing Higher EducationChapter Nine. Living in a Global EconomyThe Global Factory The Profit Motive Consumerism, Expansionism, and Waste The Myth of Progress Emphasis on Immediate CostsThe Global Economy Complex Inequalities Legacies of Colonialism External DebtImplications of Global Economic Inequalities Connections to U.S. Policy Issues International Alliances among WomenThe Seeds of a New Global Economy Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action54. María Patricia Fernández-Kelly, “Maquiladoras: The View from Inside”*55. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, “The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy”*56. Ursula Biemann, “Remotely Sensed: A Topography of the Global Sex Trade”*57. Vandana Shiva, “Corporate Control of Water”*58. International Committee for the Peace Council, "The Chiang Mai Declaration—Religion and Women: An Agenda for Change" (2004)Part 4. SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITYChapter Ten. Women, Crime and CriminalizationThe National Context: “Get Tough on Crime” Women in the Criminal Justice System Characteristics of Incarcerated Women Offenses Committed by Women and Patterns of Arrest Sentence Length and Time Served Race and Class Disparities Girls in the Criminal Justice SystemWomen Political Prisoners Theories of Women and Crime “Equality with a Vengeance”: Is Equal Treatment Fair Treatment? The “Prison Industrial Complex” Inside/Outside Connections Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action59. Shannon Murray, “Shannon’s Story”*60. Marilyn Buck, “Women in Prison and Work”61. Rita Takahashi, "U.S. Concentration Camps and Exclusion Policies: Impact on Japanese American Women"*62. Suad Joseph and Benjamin D'Harlingue, "Media Representations and the Criminalization of Arab Americans and Muslim Americans"*63. Julia Sudbury, “Women of Color, Globalization, and the Politics of Incarceration” *64. Susan B. Tucker and Eric Cadora, “Justice Reinvestment”Chapter Eleven. Women and the Military, War, and PeaceThe Need for Women in the Military The Military as Employer Limitations to Women’s Equal Participation Women in Combat Roles Officer Training: Storming the Citadel Sexism and Misogyny Racism Sexual OrientationMilitary Wives The Impact of the U.S. Military on Women Overseas Militarized Prostitution Mixed-Race Children Fathered by U.S. Troops Crimes of Violence against Women Health Effects of Environmental ContaminationWomen’s Opposition to the Military Early Peace Organizations in the United States Feminist Antimilitarist Perspectives Redefining SecurityQuestions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action*65. Cynthia Enloe “Sneak Attack: The Militarization of U.S. Culture”*66. Kristin Henderson, “The Siege”Julia Ward Howe, “Mother’s Day Proclamation—1870”*67. Suzuyo Takazato, "Report from Okinawa: Long-Term U.S. Military Presence"*68. Julia Ward Howe, "Mother's Day Proclamation—1870"69. Jean Grossholtz, "The Search for Peace and Justice: Notes toward an Autobiography"70. Women's Pentagon Action, "Unity Statement"*71. Betty Burkes, "Full Moon: The Imagery of Wholeness and Celebration"Chapter Twelve Women and the EnvironmentTheoretical and Activist Perspectives Environmentalism Deep Ecology and Bioregionalism Ecofeminism Environmental JusticeConnectedness and Sustainability Questions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action72. Cindy Chan Saelee, “My Mom’s Garden”*73. Sandra Steingraber, “Rose Moon” (excerpt)74. Ynestra King, “The Ecofeminist Imperative”75. The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “Principles of Environmental Justice” 76. Mililani Trask, “Native Hawaiian Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Justice” 77. H. Patricia Hynes, “Consumption: North American Perspectives” Part 5. ACTIVISM AND CHANGEChapter Thirteen. Creating Change: Theory, Vision, and ActionHow Does Change Happen? Using the Head: Theories for Social Change Using the Heart: Visions for Social Change Using the Hands: Action for Social Change Overcoming Blocks to Effective ActionWomen and Political Activism Identity-Based Politics Feminist Movements Women in Electoral PoliticsBuilding Alliances for the Twenty First Century Some Principles for Alliance Building Overcoming Impediments to Effective Alliances Creating a Secure and Sustainable WorldQuestions for Reflection Finding Out More on the Web Taking Action78. Christina Leaño, “Listening to the Voices of My Spiritual Self”79. Cynthia Cohen, "Common Threads: Life Stories and the Arts in Educating for Social Change"Suzanne Pharr, “Multi-Issue Politics” OR CINDY COHEN AGAIN?*80. Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin, "Making What Will Become"*81. Alison Stein Wellner, "A Chain Letter Reaction"82. Charlotte Bunch, "Whose Security?"*83. Peggy Antrobus, "The Global Women's Movement: Definitions and Origins"