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Feminist Frontiers by Laurel Richardson, Nancy Whittier and Verta A. Taylor (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcGraw-Hill Higher Education

ISBN-100072824239

ISBN-139780072824230

eBay Product ID (ePID)2486228

Product Key Features

Number of Pages560 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFeminist Frontiers

Publication Year2003

SubjectChildren's Studies, Sociology / General, Women's Studies

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science

AuthorLaurel Richardson, Nancy Whittier, Verta A. Taylor

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight28.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number6

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2003-108637

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.42/0973

Table Of Content*Indicates new reading or boxed insert PREFACE PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Section One: Diversity and Difference 1. Oppression, Marilyn Frye 2. Distinctions in Western Women's Experience: Ethnicity, Class, and Social Change, Rosalinda Mendez Gonzalez 3. Where I Come From Is Like This, Paula Gunn Allen BOXED INSERT: Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth 4. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde *5. Teaching About Being an Oppressor: Some Personal and Political Considerations, Steven P. Schacht Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives 6. "Night To His Day": The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber BOXED INSERT: Portrait of a Man, Loren Cameron 7. The Medical Construction of Gender, Suzanne Kessler *8. Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins BOXED INSERT: Womanist, Alice Walker PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATION Section Three: Representation, Language, and Culture 9. Gender Stereotyping in the English Language, Laurel Richardson *BOXED INSERT: Why I'm Not a Lady (And No Woman Is), Sherryl Kleinman *10. Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty, Debra L. Gimlin *BOXED INSERT: Myth of the Perfect Body, Roberta Galler *11. Hair Still Matters, Ingrid Banks 12. Selling Hot Pussy, bell hooks 13. Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance, Yen Le Espiritu Section Four: Socialization 14. "The Means to Put My Children Through": Child-Rearing Goals and Strategies Among Black Female Domestic Servants, Bonnie Thornton Dill 15. Girls and Boys Together1...But Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools, Barrie Thorne *16. What Are Little Boys Made Of? Michael Kimmel *BOXED INSERT: Inherit the War, Grace Paley 17. Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Families, Barbara Risman PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER Section Five: Work 18. The Wage Conceived, Alice Kessler-Harris *19. Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force, Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley *20. Moving Up and Taking Charge, Barbara Reskin and Irene Padovic BOXED INSERT: The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment (excerpt), Barbara Reskin *21. Maid in L.A., Pierrette Honagneu-Sotelo Section Six: Families *22. Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single-Parent Strategies, Rosanna Hertz BOXED INSERT: The Mommy Test, Barbara Ehrenreich 23. Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment, Denise A. Segura 24. *For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market, Hung Cam Thai *25. Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay Families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves, Suzanna Danuta Walters *BOXED INSERT: A Member of the Funeral, Nancy Naples Section Seven: Sexuality *26. Finding the Lesbians in Lesbian History, Leila J. Rupp *27. In Hiding and On Display, Susan Bordo 28. Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality, Deborah L. Tolman BOXED INSERT: Sex Ed: How Do We Score? Carolyn Mackler *29. Becoming 100% Straight, Michael A. Messner Section Eight: Bodies *30. Hormanal Hurricanes: Menstruation, Menopause, and Female Behavior, Anne Fausto-Sterling BOXED INSERT: If Men Could Menstruate, Gloria Steinem *BOXED INSERT: I'm Taking Back My Pussy: A Transgression of Privatized Gynecological Boundaries, Claire T. Porter 31. "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women, Becky Wangsgaard Thompson *32. Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low Income Women, Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson BOXED INSERT: Assessing Older Lesbians' Health Needs, Sharon Deevey *33. The Muslim Female Heroic: Shorts or Veils, Jennifer Hargreaves Section Nine: Violence

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisPresents an anthology of feminist writings and incorporates issues of sexual orientation and sexual diversity. This book presents the diversity of women's issues and experiences, exploring their similarities and their differences. It offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality, and presents feminist theory and methodology.

LC Classification NumberHQ1426.F472 2004