Synopses & Reviews
This book features full-length essays by feminists and multi-cultural people. It also addresses the international connections between race, gender, sex, AIDS, the environment, and cultural images.
Synopsis
To familiarize yourself with this book, imaging our culture as a vast band of static, buzzing white noise. To hear anything definite, a listener needs to sort out the frequencies, adjust the volume, and tune into certain wavelengths. At his point, the metaphor may appear naive because culture is far more than an auditory experience. Without our participation, culture seems an undifferentiated morass of individual and institutional practices and policies; natural catastrophes; political events; geographic regions; diverse ethnic, racial, and sexual groups; specific urban, suburban, and rural populations; and visual media bombardments.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-521).
Table of Contents
I. IMAGES. 1. Kimberle Crenshaw & Gary Peller, Reel Time, Real Justice. 2. Wahneema Lubiano, Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels.
3. Andrew Ross, Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Cosmonauts: Families, Film Genres, and Technocultures.
4. Susan Bordo, Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture.
5. Danae Clark, Commodity Lesbianism.
II. COMMUNITY. 6. bell hooks and Cornel West, Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s.
7. Barbara Smith, Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Relationships Between Black and Jewish Women
8. Nancy Fraser, Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture.
9. Maria C. Lugones, Playfulness, “World-Traveling,” and Loving Perception.
10. Kathy Boudin, et. al., Voices: Women of ACE (AIDS Counseling and Eduction).
III. MEGALOPOLIS. 11. Elaine H. Kim, Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals.
12. Cynthia Enloe, On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism.
13. Leslie Kanes Weisman, The Private Use of Public Space.
14. Celeste Olalquiaga, Holy Kitschen: Collecting Religious Junk From the Street.
IV. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF. 15. Gloria Anzaldua, How To Tame A Wild Tongue.
16. Sandra Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.
17. Susan Ferraro, The Anguished Politics of Breast Cancer.
18. Linda Singer, BodiesPleasuresPowers.
V. ECOFEMINISM. 19. Starhawk, Power, Authority and Mystery: Ecofeminism and Earth-Based Spirituality.
20. Ynestra King, Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism.
21. Carol Adams, The Feminist Traffic in Animals.
22. Carolyn Merchant, Ecofeminism.
VI. SEXUALITIES. 23. Katie Roiphe, Date Rape's Other Victim.
24. Patricia Hill Collins, The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood.
25. Walter L. Williams, Of Religion and Dreams: The Spiritual Basis of the Berdache Tradition.
26. Linda Williams, Fetishism and Hard Core.
27. Catherine MacKinnon, Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace.
VII. MASCULINITIES. 28. Richard Rodriguez, Complexion.
29. John Stoltenberg, How Men Have (a) Sex.
30. Patrick D. Hopkins, Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities.
31. Thomas W. Laqueur, The Facts of Fatherhood.
VIII. POLITICS OF HOPE. 32. Ann Snitow, Being Joyously Political in Dangerous Times.
33. Rayna Green, Culture and Gender in Indian America.
34. Fran Peavy, American Willing to Listen.
35. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Yellow Sprouts.