Synopses & Reviews
The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual orientation and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With classic and contemporary readings that cut across disciplines and generational lines, Feminist Frontiers presents the full diversity of women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities as well as their interconnected differences. Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in a global context and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. A sociological analysis opens each of the four parts and eleven sections of the book. Boxed inserts featuring personal stories, news articles, and other items from popular culture complement the readings.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
*Indicates new reading or boxed insertPREFACEPART ONE: INTRODUCTIONSection One: Diversity and Difference1. Oppression, Marilyn Frye2. White Privilege and Male Privilege, Peggy McIntosh*BOXED INSERT: Haole Girl: Identity and White Privilege in Hawai'i, Judy Rohrer3. *Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women, Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso4. Where I Come From Is Like This, Paula Gunn AllenBOXED INSERT: Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth 5. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde
Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives6. "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber7. The Medical Construction of Gender, Suzanne Kessler8. *Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism, Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill9. *Feminism without Borders, Chandra Talpade Mohanty10. *Masculinities and Globalization, R. W. ConnellBOXED INSERT: Womanist, Alice Walker
PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATIONSection Three: Representation, Language, and Culture11. Gender Stereotyping in the English Language, Laurel Richardson*BOXED INSERT: The Ms. of Baghdad, Lauren Sandler12. Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty, Debra L. GimlinBOXED INSERT: The Myth of the Perfect Body, Roberta Galler 13. Hair Still Matters, Ingrid Banks14. *Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces, Cheryl L. Keyes
Section Four: Socialization15. Girls and Boys Together...But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools, Barrie Thorne*BOXED INSERT: Hostile Hallways, American Association of University Women 16. What Are Little Boys Made Of? Michael Kimmel 17. *"We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives, Yen Le Espiritu18. *Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities, France Winddance Twine
PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDERSection Five: Work*19. Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force, Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley*BOXED INSERT: Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Education, Race, and Hispanic Origin, Irene Padavic and Barbara Reskin20. *"You Wouldn't Want One of 'Em Dancing With Your Wife": Racialized Bodies on the Job in World War II, Eileen Boris21. *The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons, Miliann KangBOXED INSERT: The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment, Barbara Reskin22. Maid in L.A., Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo*BOXED INSERT: The Living Wage as a Women's Issue, Eileen Boris
Section Six: Families23. *Bridal Wave, Melissa Morrison*BOXED INSERT: Abstinence-Only: Breeding Ignorance, Mary-Jane Wagle24. *Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change, Kathleen Gerson25. Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment, Denise A. Segura26. For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market, Hung Cam Thai27. *Queer Parenting in the New Millennium, Nancy A. Naples
Section Seven: Sexualities28. Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality, Deborah L. Tolman 29. *After the Sexual Revolution: Gender Politics in Teen Dating, Barbara Risman and Pepper Schwartz30. *Black Sexual Politics, Patricia Hill Collins31. *Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality, Leila J. Rupp32. Becoming 100% Straight, Michael A. MessnerBOXED INSERT: My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix, Susan Stryker
Section Eight: Bodies33. Hormonal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior, Anne Fausto-Sterling34. "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women, Becky Wangsgaard Thompson35. *Loose Lips Sink Ships, Simone Weil Davis36. *Beyond Pro-Choice versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice, Andrea Smith37. *Welcome to Cancerland, Barbara Ehrenreich*BOXED INSERT: Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness, Eli Clare
Section Nine: Violence against Women38. Fraternities and Rape on Campus, Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. HummerBOXED INSERT: Men Changing Men, Robert L. Allen and Paul Kivel39. Supremacy Crimes, Gloria Steinem40. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, Kimberle Crenshaw41. *Sex and War: Fighting Men, Comfort Women, and the Military-Sexual Complex, Joane Nagel
PART FOUR: SOCIAL CHANGESection Ten: Global Politics and the State42. The Globe Trotting Sneaker, Cynthia Enloe43. *From the Third World to the "Third World Within:" Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization, Grace Chang44. *Las Mujeres Invisibles/The Invisible Women, Sharon Ann Navarro*BOXED INSERT: Femicide in Juárez, Pheona Donohoe45. *Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, Lila Abu-LughodBOXED INSERT: Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trendy, Norimitsu Onishi46. *The Lady and The Tramp (II): Feminist Welfare Politics, Poor Single Mothers, and the Challenge of Welfare Justice, Gwendolyn Mink
Section Eleven: Social Protest and the Feminist Movement47. The Women's Movement: Persistence through Transformation, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak48. *Feminists or "Postfeminists"? Young Women's Attitudes toward Feminisim and Gender Relations, Pamela AronsonBOXED INSERT: The End of Feminism's Third Wave, Lisa Jervis49. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen50. *It's Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism, Susan Muaddi Darraj*BOXED INSERT: UN Commission Approves Declaration Reaffirming Goals of 1995 Women's Conference after U.S. Drops Antiabortion Amendment*BOXED INSERT: Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Declaration* Indicates New Reading or Boxed Insert
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