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. |
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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