Gendered voices, feminist visions : classic and contemporary readings / [compiled and edited by] Susan M. Shaw, Janet Lee.

Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Seventh Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of women's experiences. Framework essays provide context...

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Other Authors / Creators:Shaw, Susan M. 1960- compiler, editor.
Lee, Janet, 1954- compiler, editor.
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:Seventh edition.
Imprint: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1. Women's and Gender Studies: Perspectives and Practices
  • What Is Women's and Gender Studies (WGS)?
  • How Did WGS Originate?
  • What Were the Origins of Women's Rights Activism in the United States?
  • What Is the Status of WGS on College Campuses Today?
  • What Does WGS Have to Do with Feminism?
  • What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism?
  • 1. "Claiming an Education"
  • 2. "Living a Feminist Life"
  • 3. New York Radical Women, "No More Miss America"
  • 4. "A Day Without Feminism"
  • 5. "A Transnational Black Feminist Framework"
  • 6. "In Defense of Latinx"
  • 7. "My Heroines"
  • Chapter 2. Systems of Privilege and Inequality
  • Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality
  • Discourse, Power, and Knowledge
  • Institutions
  • 8. "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection"
  • 9. "Intersectionality,"
  • 10. "There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression"
  • 11. "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"
  • 12. "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?"
  • 13. "Cisgender Privilege"
  • 14. "Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says"
  • 15. "Disability and Social Justice"
  • 16. "Poems with Disabilities"
  • Chapter 3. Learning Gender
  • Gender, Culture, and Biology
  • Masculinity
  • Femininity
  • Gender Fluidity
  • Gender Ranking
  • 17. "The Five Sexes, Revisited"
  • 18. "The Social Construction of Gender"
  • 19. "Native American Men-Women, Lesbians, Two-Spirits"
  • 20. "The Connection Between White Men, Aggrievement, and Mass Shootings"
  • 21. "When I Was Growing Up"
  • 22. "Trans*forming College Masculinities"
  • Chapter 4. Inscribing Gender on the Body
  • The Social Construction of the Body
  • The "Beauty" Ideal
  • Eating Disorders
  • Negotiating "Beauty" Ideals
  • 23. "Breast Buds and the Training' Bra"
  • 24. "If Men Could Menstruate"
  • 25. "Race, Online Space and the Feminine"
  • 26. "I Click and Post and Breathe, Waiting for Others to See What I See"
  • 27. "Asian American Women's Body Image Experiences"
  • 28. "Fat Is Still a Feminist Issue"
  • 29. "Understanding Transgender and Medically Assisted Gender Transition"
  • Chapter 5. Media and Culture
  • Digital Technologies
  • Television
  • Movies
  • Contemporary Music and Music Videos
  • Print Media
  • Literature and the Arts
  • 30. "Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister"
  • 31. "The Wife"
  • 32. "Poetry Is Not a Luxury"
  • 33. "Tweeting Back While Shouting Back"
  • 34. "The Sexual Politics of Veggies"
  • 35. "Cardi B: Love & Hip Hop's Unlikely Feminist Hero"
  • 36. "A Corporation in Feminist Clothing?"
  • Chapter 6. Sex, Power, and Intimacy
  • The Social Construction of Sexuality
  • The Politics of Sexuality
  • Intimacies
  • 37. "The Cult of Virginity"
  • 38. "Gate C22"
  • 39. "The Complexities of Sexual Consent Among College Students"
  • 40. "Queer Muslim Women Are Making Salaam with Who They Are"
  • 41. "Lesbian Landscape"
  • 42. "The Future of Fat Sex"
  • 43. "Queering Black Female Heterosexuality"
  • Chapter 7. Health and Reproductive Justice
  • Health and Wellness
  • Reproductive Justice
  • 44. "On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice"
  • 45. "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Stories from Advocates in Brazil, India and South Africa"
  • 46. "Doctors Need to Talk Openly About Race-Our Patients Depend on It"
  • 47. "On Being Transnational and Transgenders"*
  • 48. "Racism-the Pathology We Choose to Ignore"
  • 49. "Performance of a Lifetime: On Invisible Illness, Gender, and Disbelief
  • Chapter 8. Family Systems, Family Lives
  • Definitions of Family
  • Institutional Connections
  • Power and Family Relationships
  • Mothering
  • 50. "Marriage and Love"
  • 51. "Where Are the Mothers?"
  • 52. "The Kids Are OK"
  • 53. "Immigration Policies Are Harming American Children"
  • 54. "The Reciprocal Relationship Between Religious Beliefs and Acceptance of One's Gay or Lesbian Family Member"
  • 55. "Beyond the Wall"
  • 56. "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears"
  • Chapter 9. Work Inside and Outside the Home
  • Unpaid Labor in the Home
  • Paid Labor
  • 57. "A Brief History of Working Women"
  • 58. "Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking"
  • 59. "Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap-and How?"
  • 60. "This Is the Hidden Financial Cost of Being an LGBTQ American Today"
  • 61. "Women Are Just Better at This Stuff"
  • 62. "The Age of Patriarchy"
  • Chapter 10. Resisting Gender Violence
  • Sexual Assault and Rape
  • Physical Abuse
  • Incest
  • 63. "Beyond the Politics of Inclusion"
  • 64. "She Said"
  • 65. "Gender Aspects of Human Trafficking"
  • 66. "#SayHerName"
  • 67. "Why Sexual Assault Survivors Do Not Report to Universities: A Feminist Analysis"
  • 68. "Sexual Violence in Iraq: Challenges for Transnational Feminist Politics"
  • 69. "Betrayed by the Angel"
  • 70. "Lisa's Ritual, Age 10"
  • Chapter 11. State, Law, and Social Policy
  • Government and Representation
  • Public Policy
  • The Criminal Justice System
  • The Military
  • 71. "Constitutional Argument"
  • 72. "I Knew America Was Not Ready for a Woman to Be President"
  • 73. "New Military Femininities: Humanitarian Violence and the Gendered Work of War Among U.S. Servicewomen"
  • 74. "Speech on Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy"
  • 75. "What It Feels Like to Be on Welfare"
  • 76. "The Rise of the Valkyries: In the Alt-Right, Women Are the Future, and the Problem"
  • Chapter 12. Religion and Spirituality
  • Religion as Oppressive to Women
  • Religion as Empowering to Women
  • Gender and God-Language
  • Reinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing Traditions
  • Creating New Spiritual Traditions
  • 77. "Introduction to The Woman's Bible"
  • 78. "God Says Yes to Me"
  • 79. "Fundamentalism and the Control of Women"
  • 80. "'I'm a Mormon Feminist"
  • 81. "Buddhist Nuns in Nepal"
  • 82. An Interview with Syafa Almirzanah, "The Prophet's Daughters"
  • 83. "Feminists in the Temple of Orthodoxy"
  • 84. "How Evangelicals Became White"
  • 85. "Transgressing the Father Figure"
  • Chapter 13. Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures
  • The Promise of Feminist Education
  • Activism
  • Future Visions
  • 86. "Feminist Men"
  • 87. "I Went to Jail for Handing Out Feminist Stickers in China"
  • 88. "Mestiza Women's Anti-mining Activism in Andean Ecuador"
  • 89. "Building Coalitions: The Interconnections Between Feminism and Trans* Activism in Spain"
  • 90. "Most Women You Know Are Angry"
  • 91. "What's Love Got to Do with It?"
  • 92. "Warning"
  • Credits
  • Index