A collection of classic feminist readings, this text presents the full diversity of women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities as well as their differences. It offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. A sociological analysis opens each of the four parts and 11 sections of the book. This edition includes a new section on feminist perspectives and recent research on such topics as: women's music; hate radio; eating disorders; breast cancer, welfare policy; AIDS, women in politics; and the experiences of employees at abortion clinics. The book also includes a few selections on men and masculinity that present a wider view of men and look at such factors as race and class that affect their lives.
PREFACE xiii PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1(110) SECTION ONE: Diversity and Difference 5(26) 1 Oppression 7(2) Marilyn Frye 2 Distinctions in Western Womens Experience: Ethnicity, Class, and Social Change 9(9) Rosalinda Mendez Gonzalez 3 Where I Come From Is Like This 18(4) Paula Gunn Allen Boxed Insert: AINT I A WOMAN? 20(2) Sojourner Truth 4 Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity 22(4) R. W. Connell 5 The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House 26(2) Audre Lorde 6 Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name 28(3) Gloria Yamato SECTION TWO: Feminist Perspectives 31(80) 7 Night To His Day: The Social Construction of Gender 33(15) Judith Lorber 8 Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex 48(16) Judith Shapiro 9 From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor 64(17) Evelyn Nakano Glenn 10 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 81(20) Adrienne Rich 11 The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought 101(10) Patricia Hill Collins Boxed Insert: WOMANIST 104(7) Alice Walker PART TWO: LEARNING GENDER 111(86) SECTION THREE: Language, Images, and Culture 113(30) 12 Gender Stereotyping in the English Language 115(7) Laurel Richardson Boxed Insert: A MONUMENTAL OVERSIGHT 116(2) Editorial Staff, Women Right Now, Glamour Magazine Boxed Insert: DIFFERENT WORDS, DIFFERENT WORLDS 118(4) Deborah Tannen 13 Barbie Doll Culture and the American Waistland 122(4) Kamy Cunningham Boxed Insert: THE BEAUTY MYTH 124(2) Naomi Wolf 14 Womens Music: No Longer a Small Private Party 126(9) Cynthia M. Lont Boxed Insert: WOMEN RAP BACK 130(5) Michele Wallace 15 Hate Radio: Why We Need To Tune In To Limbaugh and Stern 135(4) Patricia J. Williams 16 En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras 139(4) Gloria Anzaldua SECTION FOUR: Socialization 143(54) 17 Family Structure and Feminine Personality 145(16) Nancy Chodorow Boxed Insert: GENDER IN THE CONTEXT OF RACE AND CLASS: NOTES ON CHODOROWS REPRODUCTION OF MOTHERING 158(3) Elizabeth V. Spelman 18 The Means to Put My Children Through: Child-Rearing Goals and Strategies among Black Female Domestic Servants 161(10) Bonnie Thornton Dill 19 The Secret Fear That Keeps Us from Raising Free Children 171(5) Letty Cottin Pogrebin Boxed Insert: BALLET! TOUCHE! 174(2) Susan Eisenberg 20 Girls and Boys Together...But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools 176(11) Barrie Thorne 21 Womens Psychological Development: Implications for Psychotherapy 187(10) Carol Gilligan PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER 197(244) SECTION FIVE: Work 199(62) 22 The Wage Conceived: Value and Need as Measures of a Womans Worth 201(14) Alice Kessler-Harris 23 Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Womens Work 215(13) Barbara F. Reskin Boxed Insert: THE MOMMY TEST 218(10) Barbara Ehrenreich 24 Race, Sex, and Class: Black Female Tobacco Workers in Durham, North Carolina, 1920-1940, and the Development of Female Consciousness 228(6) Beverly W. Jones 25 Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work, and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs 234(13) Robin Leidner 26 Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants 247(14) Patti A. Giuffre Christine L. Williams SECTION SIX: Families 261(46) 27 The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home 263(5) Arlie Hochschild Boxed Insert: THE GAME OF THE NAME 265(3) Neil A. F. Popovic 28 Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment 268(14) Denise A. Segura 29 Race and Value: Black and White Illegitimate Babies, 1945-1965 282(13) Rickie Solinger 30 Negotiating Lesbian Motherhood: The Dialectics of Resistance and Accommodation 295(12) Ellen Lewin SECTION SEVEN: Intimacy and Sexuality 307(44) 31 The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy 309(4) Lillian B. Rubin 32 Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960 313(10) Madeline Davis Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy 33 Imagine My Surprise: Womens Relationships in Mid-Twentieth Century America 323(14) Leila J. Rupp Boxed Insert: IN PRAISE OF BEST FRIENDS: THE REVIVAL OF A FINE OLD INSTITUTION 328(9) Barbara Ehrenreich 34 Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls Struggles for/with Sexuality 337(5) Deborah L. Tolman Boxed Insert: THE MYTH OF THE PERFECT BODY 342(9) Roberta Galler SECTION EIGHT: Bodies and Medicine 351(42) 35 Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior 353(13) Anne Fausto-Sterling Boxed Insert: IF MEN COULD MENSTRUATE-- 358(8) Gloria Steinem 36 A Way Outa No Way: Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women 366(9) Becky Wangsgaard Thompson 37 Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties 375(9) Angela Y. Davis Boxed Insert: WHEN THE POLITICAL BECOMES THE PERSONAL OR AN ABORTION THAT WASNT AN ABORTION; A RIGHT THAT HARDLY SEEMS SUCH 378(6) Eleanor Miller 38 The Politics of Breast Cancer 384(9) Susan M. Love, M.D. Karen Lindsey Boxed Insert: ASSESSING PATIENTS SPECIAL NEEDS 386(7) Sharon Deevey SECTION NINE: Violence against Women 393(48) 39 The Man in the Street: Why He Harasses 395(3) Cheryl Bernard Edit Schlaffer 40 Fraternities and Rape on Campus 398(12) Patricia Yancey Martin Robert A. Hummer Boxed Insert: MEN CHANGING MEN 400(10) Robert L. Allen Paul Kivel 41 Stopping Rape: Effective Avoidance Strategies 410(11) Pauline B. Bart Patricia H. OBrien 42 Femicide: Speaking the Unspeakable 421(6) Jane Caputi Diana E. H. Russell Boxed Insert: A LETTER FROM CLAUDIA BRENNER 422(5) 43 Accountability or Justice? Rape as a War Crime 427(14) Mary Ann Tetreault PART FOUR: SOCIAL CHANGE 441 SECTION TEN: Global Politics and the State 445(52) 44 Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago 447(10) Kathryn Edin 45 Strangers in a Strange Land: The Gendered Experiences of Women Politicians in Britain and the United States 457(15) Abigail Halcli Jo Reger Boxed Insert: LESBIANS CLEAR HURDLES TO GAIN LEADERSHIP POSTS 458(8) Katherine Bishop Boxed Insert: REINVENTING THE WHEEL 466(6) Ms. Magazine, Gulf Dispatch 46 Social Control, Civil Liberties, and Womens Sexuality 472(13) Beth E. Schneider Valerie Jenness 47 Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 485(8) Emily Honig 48 Our Policies, Their Consequences: Zambian Womens Lives Under Structural Adjustment 493(4) Amber Ault Eve Sandberg SECTION ELEVEN: Social Protest and the Feminist Movement 497 49 Black Club Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women 499(11) Stephanie J. Shaw Boxed Insert: BLACK WOMEN AS DO-ERS: THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BLACK WOMEN 504(6) Joyce A. Ladner 50 Postindustrial Conditions and Postfeminist Consciousness in the Silicon Valley 510(16) Judith Stacey Boxed Insert: ECOFEMINISM: ANIMA, ANIMUS, ANIMAL 512(6) Carol J. Adams Boxed Insert: IM NOT A FEMINIST BUT I PLAY ONE ON TV 518(8) Susan Faludi 51 Patriarchies and Feminisms: The Two Womens Movements of Post-Unification Germany 526(10) Myra Marx Ferree Boxed Insert: JUDAISM, MASCULINITY, AND FEMINISM 530(6) Michael S. Kimmel 52 Feminism on the Job: Confronting Opposition in Abortion Work 536(8) Wendy Simonds 53 The New Feminist Movement 544 Verta Taylor Nancy Whittier Boxed Insert: BLACK STUDENTS WHO REJECT FEMINISM 546(8) bell hooks Boxed Insert: HELPING OURSELVES TO REVOLUTION 554 Gloria Steinem
