Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings: Classic and Contemporary Readings
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...
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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.
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 LivesDefinitions of FamilyInstitutional ConnectionsPower and Family RelationshipsMothering 52 EMMA GOLDMAN \| Marriage and Love53 MIRANDA KENNEDY \| Cheaper than a Cow54 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 AUDRE LORDE \| Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response58 BI SHUMIN (TRANS.SHI JUNBAO) \| Broken Transformers8 Women’s Work Inside and Outside the HomeUnpaid Labor in the HomePaid Labor59 PAT MAINARDI \| The Politics of Housework60 SHARLENE HESSE-BIBER AND GREGG LEE CARTER \| A Brief History of Working Women61 BARBARA EHRENREICH \| Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work62 EVELYN HU-DEHART \| Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Worker in Late Capitalist America63 MARTHA BURK \| Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out64 CARRIE N. BAKER \| The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment 65 KIMBERLY KLINGER \| Prostitution, Humanism, and a Woman’s Choice Discussion Questions for Chapter 8Suggestions for Further Reading9 Women Confronting and Creating CultureThe InternetTelevisionLEARNING ACTIVITY \| Top Blogs on Feminism and Women’s RightsThe MoviesContemporary Music and Music VideosHISTORICAL MOMENT \| SI for WomenPrint MediaLiterature and the Arts66 VIRGINIA WOOLF \| Thinking About Shakespeare’s Sister67 AUDRE LORDE \| Poetry Is Not a Luxury68 GLORIA ANZALDÚA \| The Path of the Red and Black Ink69 ARIEL LEVY \| Female Chauvinist Pigs70 KRISTI TURNQUIST \| A Woman’s Role Is . . . on Television71 JENNIFER L. POZNER AND JESSICA SEIGEL \| Desperately Debating Housewives72 AYA DE LEON \| If Women Ran Hip-Hop73 RONNI ARMSTEAD \| "Growing the Size of the Black Woman": Feminist Activism in Havana Hip Hop74 JENNIFER BLEYER \| Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion75 JESSICA VALENTI \| Pop Culture Gone Wild10 Resisting Violence Against WomenRapeBattering and Physical AbuseIncestPornography76 ANDREA SMITH \| Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights77 ALICE LEUCHTAG \| Human Rights: Sex Trafficking and Prostitution 78 DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ \| Deaths That Cry Out79 DEBRA ANNE DAVIS \| Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers?80 JOETTA CARR \| Campus Sexual Violence81 GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES \| Lisa’s Ritual, Age 1082 JOHN STOLTENBERG \| Pornography and Freedom83 HELEN CLARKSON \| War Crimes84 JANE FONDA \| Reclaiming Our Mojo11 State, Law, and Social PolicyGovernment and RepresentationWomen and the Law Public PolicyThe Criminal Justice SystemThe Military85 SUSAN B. ANTHONY \| Constitutional Argument86 CATHARINE A. MACKINNON \| Law in the Everyday Life of Women87 ELLEN BRAVO \| What This Nation Really Thinks of Motherhood: Welfare Reform88 ROBIN TEMPLETON \| She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex89 BAY FANG \| The Talibanization of Iraq90 CYNTHIA ENLOE \| Demilitarizing Society in a Globalized World12 Religion and Spirituality in Women’s Lives Religion as Oppressive to WomenReligion as Empowering to WomenWomen and God-LanguageReinterpreting and Reconstructing Traditions Creating New Spiritual Traditions91 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON \| Introduction to The Woman’s Bible92 KAYLIN HAUGHT \| God Says Yes to Me93 KAREN MCCARTHY BROWN \| Fundamentalism and the Control of Women94 PAULA GUNN ALLEN \| Grandmother of the Sun: The Power of Woman in Native America95 ASRA Q. NOMANI \| The Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in Mosques96 JUDITH PLASKOW \| Standing Again at Sinai97 ALICIA OSTRIKER \| Everywoman Her Own Theology98 STARHAWK \| Witchcraft and Women’s Culture99 PYTHIA PEAY \| Religion and Feminism’s Fourth Wave13 Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures The Promise of Feminist EducationActivismFuture Visions100 LISA MARIE HOGELAND \| Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies101 PHYLLIS ROSSER \| Too Many Women in College?102 MICHAEL KIMMEL \| Real Men Join the Movement103 DAZÓN DIXON DIALLO \| Reflections of a Human Rights Educator 104 ALICE H. EAGLY AND LINDA L. CARLI \| Women and Leadership105 RUTH ROSEN \| Epilogue: Beyond Backlash106 JENNY JOSEPH \| Warning
