Preface |
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1 | (3) |
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Section One: Diversity and Difference |
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4 | (26) |
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6 | (3) |
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Distinctions in Western Women's Experience: Ethnicity, Class, and Social Change |
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9 | (9) |
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Rosalinda Mendez Gonzalez |
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Where I Come From Is Like This |
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18 | (4) |
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Boxed Insert: Ain't I a Woman? |
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20 | (2) |
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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House |
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22 | (2) |
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Teaching About Being an Oppressor: Some Personal and Political Considerations |
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24 | (6) |
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Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives |
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30 | (55) |
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``Night To His Day'': The Social Construction of Gender |
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33 | (18) |
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Boxed Insert: Portrait of a Man |
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37 | (14) |
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The Medical Construction of Gender |
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51 | (15) |
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Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought |
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66 | (19) |
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84 | (1) |
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PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATION |
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85 | (2) |
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Section Three: Representation, Language, and Culture |
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87 | (55) |
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Gender Stereotyping in the English Language |
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89 | (5) |
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Boxed Insert: Why I'm Not a Lady (And No Woman Is) |
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93 | (1) |
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Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty |
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94 | (16) |
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Boxed Insert: The Myth of the Perfect Body |
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108 | (2) |
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110 | (9) |
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119 | (9) |
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Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance |
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128 | (14) |
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Section Four: Socialization |
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142 | (39) |
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``The Means to Put My Children Through'': Child-Rearing Goals and Strategies Among Black Female Domestic Servants |
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144 | (10) |
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Girls and Boys Together . . . But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools |
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154 | (12) |
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What Are Little Boys Made Of? |
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166 | (3) |
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Boxed Insert: Inherit the War |
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169 | (1) |
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Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Families |
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169 | (12) |
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PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (64) |
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185 | (15) |
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Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force |
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200 | (9) |
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Moving Up and Taking Charge |
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209 | (19) |
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Boxed Insert: The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment (excerpt) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (19) |
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo |
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247 | (53) |
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Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single-Parent Strategies |
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250 | (11) |
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Boxed Insert: The Mommy Test |
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259 | (2) |
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Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment |
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261 | (14) |
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For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market |
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275 | (11) |
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Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay Families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves |
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286 | (14) |
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Boxed Insert: A Member of the Funeral |
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296 | (4) |
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Section Seven: Sexualities |
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300 | (32) |
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Finding the Lesbians in Lesbian History |
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302 | (4) |
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306 | (6) |
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Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality |
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312 | (15) |
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Boxed Insert: Sex Ed: How Do We Score? |
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324 | (3) |
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327 | (5) |
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332 | (55) |
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Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior |
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334 | (19) |
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Boxed Insert: If Men Could Menstruate |
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347 | (1) |
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Boxed Insert: I'm Taking Back My Pussy: A Transgression of Privatized Gynecological Boundaries |
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348 | (5) |
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``A Way Outa No Way'': Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women |
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353 | (10) |
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Becky Wangsgaard Thompson |
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Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low Income Women |
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363 | (9) |
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Boxed Insert: Assessing Older Lesbians' Health Needs |
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371 | (1) |
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The Muslim Female Heroic: Shorts or Veils? |
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372 | (15) |
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Section Nine: Violence against Women |
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387 | (42) |
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Fraternities and Rape on Campus |
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389 | (12) |
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Boxed Insert: Men Changing Men |
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398 | (3) |
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401 | (4) |
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Boxed Insert: A Letter from Claudia Brenner |
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403 | (2) |
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Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color |
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405 | (10) |
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Accountability or Justice? Rape as a War Crime |
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415 | (14) |
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429 | (3) |
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Section Ten: Global Politics and the State |
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432 | (39) |
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Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago |
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434 | (10) |
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The Truth About Women and Power |
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444 | (9) |
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Boxed Insert: Iraq's Little Secret |
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452 | (1) |
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The Globetrotting Sneaker |
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453 | (5) |
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Hindu Women's Activism in India and the Questions It Raises |
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458 | (13) |
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Boxed Insert: Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trendy |
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468 | (3) |
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Section Eleven: Social Protest and the Feminist Movement |
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471 | (62) |
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The Gendered Organization of Hate: Women in the U.S. Ku Klux Klan |
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473 | (11) |
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What Promises Can Men Keep?: How Men Renegotiate Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement |
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484 | (11) |
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Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? |
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495 | (17) |
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The Next Feminist Generation: Imagine My Surprise |
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512 | (3) |
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The Women's Movement: Persistence through Transformation |
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515 | (18) |
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Boxed Insert: Linking Arms and Movements |
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531 | (2) |
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Acknowledgments |
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