Feminist Frontiers

An anthology of feminist writings. It offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in interaction with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, ability, and nation, and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology.

Table des matières

ABOUT THE EDITORS PREFACE PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Section One: DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE 1. Being the Bridge: A Solitary Black Woman's Position in the Women's Studies Classroom as a Feminist Student and Professor | Kimberly Springer 2. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy McIntosh 3. Where I Come From Is Like This | Paula Gunn Allen 4. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House | Audre Lorde 5. The Mountain | Eli Clare Section Two: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 6. "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender | Judith Lorber 7. The Medical Construction of Gender | Suzanne Kessler 8. Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question | Susan Stryker 9. Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism | Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill 10. Gender in the Borderlands | Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella 11. Masculinities and Globalization | R.W. Connell PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATION Section Three: REPRESENTATION, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE 12. Gender Stereotyping in the English Language | Laurel Richardson 13. Sexing the Internet: Reflections on the Role of Identification in Online Communities | danah boyd 14. Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: A Comparative Study of Grassroots Activism and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign | Josee Johnston and Judy Taylor 15. Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty | Debra L. Gimlin 16. Hair Still Matters | Ingrid Banks Section Four: SOCIALIZATION 17. Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films | Karin A. Martin and Emily Kazyak 18. Pretty Baby | Catherine Newman 19. Girls and Boys Together...but Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools | Barrie Thorne 20. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do:" Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives | Yen Le Espiritu PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER Section Five: WORK 21. Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force | Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley 22. Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Education, Race, and Hispanic Origin, 2009 | Nancy Whittier 23. The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons | Miliann Kang 24. Maid in L.A. | Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 25. Organizing Home Care | Jennifer Klein and Eileen Boris Section Six: FAMILIES 26. Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality During the Cold War | Carolyn Herbst Lewis 27. What if Marriage is Bad for Us? | Laurie Essig and Lynn Owens 28. Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change | Kathleen Gerson 29. For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market | Hung Cam Thai Section Seven: SEXUALITIES 30. Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality | Deborah L. Tolman 31. Shopping for Love: Online Dating and the Making of a Cyber Culture of Romance | Sophia DeMasi 32. Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? | Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England 33. Straight Girls Kissing | Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor 34. Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals," Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality | Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook Section Eight: BODIES 35. The Bare Bones of Sex: Part I--Sex and Gender | Anne Fausto-Sterling 36. "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems Among African-American, Latina, and White Women | Becky Wangsgaard Thompson 37. Loose Lips Sink Ships | Simone Weil Davis 38. Google Babies: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy | France Winddance Twine 39. Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice | Andrea Smith Section Nine: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 40. Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls' Violence: From Private Injury to Public Harm | Laurie Schaffner 41. "My Strength Is Not for Hurting": Men's Anti-Rape Websites and Their Construction of Masculinity and Male Sexuality | N. Tatiana Masters 42. Fraternities and Rape on Campus | Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer 43. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color | Kimberle Crenshaw PART FOUR: SOCIAL CHANGE Section Ten: GLOBAL POLITICS AND THE STATE 44. Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women's Resistance | Karen McCormack 45. From the Third World to the "Third World Within": Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization | Grace Chang 46. Gendered Selves and Identities of Information Technology Professionals in Global Software Organizations in India | Marisa D'Mello 47. Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives | Gwyn Kirk 48. Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others | Lila Abu-Lughod Section Eleven: SOCIAL PROTEST AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS 49. Forever Feminism: The Persistence of the U.S. Women's Movement, 1960-2011 | Alison Dahl Crossley, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak 50. Feminists or "Postfeminists"? Young Women's Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gender Relations | Pamela Aronson 51. Young Women, Late Modern Politics, and the Participatory Possibilities of Online Cultures | Anita Harris 52. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? | Cathy J. Cohen 53. We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: Young Black Feminists Take Their Research and Activism Online | Moya Bailey and Alexis Pauline Gumbs 54. Transform The World: What You Can Do with a Degree in Women's Studies | Nikki Ayanna Stewart ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A propos de l'auteur

Verta Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Center for Women's Studies at The Ohio State University, where she teaches courses on gender, women's studies, and social movements. She has won numerous teaching awards at Ohio State, including a University Distinguished Teaching Award, and a multicultural teaching award. In 195 she was co-recipient of the Sociologists for Women in Society's Mentoring Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, and was voted Chair-Elect of the Section on Sex and Gender of the American Sociological Association. She has written and co-authored many different books and her writings have appeared in numerous scholarly collections and in journals such as The American Sociological Review, Social Problems, and Journal of Marriage and Family. Nancy Whittier is Associate Professor of Sociology and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College. She teaches courses on gender, social movements, queer politics, and research methods. She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, where she held a University Fellowship and a Presidential Dissertation Fellowship. Professor Whittier is the author of Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement, which traces the evolution of radical feminism over the past 25 years and examines intergenerational differences within the women's movement. Her work on the women's movement, social movement culture and collective identity, and activist generations has appeared in numerous scholarly collections and journals. She is currently co-editing a volume on new directions in social movement theory. She is also working on a book about the gender politics of the movement against child sexual abuse and its opponents.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Leila Rupp, Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, Verta/ Rupp Taylor, Nancy Whittier
• Edition: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 16.09.2011, retardé
• EAN: 9780078026621
• ISBN: 978-0-07-802662-1
• Pages: 608
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques