Contents 1 Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices What Is Women's Studies? How Did Women's Studies Come About? What Were the Origins of Women's Rights Activism in the United States? What Is the Status of Women's Studies on College Campuses Today? What Does Women's Studies Have to Do with Feminism? What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism? 1 ADRIENNE RICH | Claiming an Education 2 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER AND AMY RICHARDS | A Day Without Feminism 3 DEBORAH SIEGEL | The Movement That Has No Name 4 BELL HOOKS | Feminist Politics: Where We Stand 5 REBECCA WALKER | We Are Using This Power to Resist 6 ESTELLE B. FREEDMAN | The Global Stage and the Politics of Location 7 DEBORAH L. RHODE | Denials of Inequality 8 ANNA QUINDLEN | Still Needing the F Word 2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality in Women's Lives Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality Institutions Ideology and Language 9 PATRICIA HILL COLLINS | Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection 10 MARILYN FRYE | Oppression 11 LOIS KEITH | Tomorrow I'm Going to Rewrite the English Language 12 SUZANNE PHARR | Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism 13 PEGGY MCINTOSH | White Privilege and Male Privilege 14 GLORIA YAMATO | Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name 15 DONNA LANGSTON | Tired of Playing Monopoly? 16 BABA COPPER | Voices: On Becoming Old Women 17 SUSAN WENDELL | The Social Construction of Disability 18 JUNE JORDAN | Report from the Bahamas 3 Learning Gender in a Diverse Society Biology and Culture Masculinity Femininity Gender Ranking 19 ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING | Two Sexes Are Not Enough 20 JUDITH LORBER | The Social Construction of Gender 21 PAMELA J. BETTIS AND NATALIE GUICE ADAMS | Short Skirts and Breast Juts: Cheerleading, Eroticism and Schools 22 NELLIE WONG | When I Was Growing Up 23 JUDY WAJCMAN | Virtual Gender 24 DEBRA ROSENBERG | (Rethinking) Gender 25 R. W. CONNELL | Masculinities and Globalization 4 Sex, Power, and Intimacy The Social Construction of Sexuality The Politics of Sexuality Intimacies 26 PEPPER SCHWARTZ AND VIRGINIA RUTTER | Sexual Desire and Gender 27 BELL HOOKS | Romance: Sweet Love 28 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER | What Is Bisexuality? 29 ELLEN BASS | Gate C22 30 CHERRIE MORAGA | La Guera 31 EMILY OXFORD | Prue Shows Her Knickers 32 PAULA GUNN ALLEN | Some Like Indians Endure 33 PINAR ILKKARACAN | Women, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East 5 Inscribing Gender on the Body Bodies, Nature, and Women The "Beauty" Ideal Eating Disorders Resisting the "Beauty" Ideals 34 AMY BLOOM | Hermaphrodites with Attitude 35 JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG | Breast Buds and the "Training" Bra 36 GLORIA STEINEM | If Men Could Menstruate 37 LISA R. RUBIN,MAKO L. FITTS, AND ANNE BECKER | Body Ethics and Aesthetics Among African American and Latina Women 38 ROSE WEITZ | What We Do for Love 39 LISA MIYA-JERVIS | Hold That Nose 40 COURTNEY E. MARTIN | Love Your Fat Self 41 MAYA ANGELOU | Phenomenal Woman 42 JONATHAN WATTS | China's Cosmetic Surgery Craze 43 SIMONE WEIL DAVIS | Designer Vaginas 6 Health and Reproductive Rights Health and Wellness Reproductive Choice 44 DAVID SATCHER,MD | American Women and Health Disparities 45 VIVIAN DICKINSON,MD | The Tolling of the Bell: Women's Health, Women's Rights 46 LINDA GORDON | Is Nothing Simple About Reproduction Control? 47 SELDON MCCURRIE | Eyes on the Prize 48 AGNES R. HOWARD AND NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Cursed by God? Two Essays on a Theme 49 MARGARET SANGER | My Fight for Birth Control 50 JAEL SILLMAN,MARLENE GERBER FRIED,LORETTA ROSS, AND ELENA R. GUTIERREZ | Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice 51 ELEANOR COONEY | The Way It Was 7 Family Systems, Family Lives Definitions of Family Institutional Connections Power and Family Relationships Mothering 52 EMMA GOLDMAN | Marriage and Love 53 MIRANDA KENNEDY | Cheaper than a Cow 54 LISA MIYA-JERVIS | Who Wants to Marry a Feminist? 55 HEIDI BRUGGINK | Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake 56 CHARLENE GOMES | Partners as Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage 57 AUDRE LORDE | Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response 58 BI SHUMIN (TRANS.SHI JUNBAO) | Broken Transformers 8 Women's Work Inside and Outside the Home Unpaid Labor in the Home Paid Labor 59 PAT MAINARDI | The Politics of Housework 60 SHARLENE HESSE-BIBER AND GREGG LEE CARTER | A Brief History of Working Women 61 BARBARA EHRENREICH | Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work 62 EVELYN HU-DEHART | Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Worker in Late Capitalist America 63 MARTHA BURK | Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out 64 CARRIE N. BAKER | The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment 65 KIMBERLY KLINGER | Prostitution, Humanism, and a Woman's Choice Discussion Questions for Chapter 8 Suggestions for Further Reading 9 Women Confronting and Creating Culture The Internet Television LEARNING ACTIVITY | Top Blogs on Feminism and Women's Rights The Movies Contemporary Music and Music Videos HISTORICAL MOMENT | SI for Women Print Media Literature and the Arts 66 VIRGINIA WOOLF | Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister 67 AUDRE LORDE | Poetry Is Not a Luxury 68 GLORIA ANZALDUA | The Path of the Red and Black Ink 69 ARIEL LEVY | Female Chauvinist Pigs 70 KRISTI TURNQUIST | A Woman's Role Is ... on Television 71 JENNIFER L. POZNER AND JESSICA SEIGEL | Desperately Debating Housewives 72 AYA DE LEON | If Women Ran Hip-Hop 73 RONNI ARMSTEAD | "Growing the Size of the Black Woman": Feminist Activism in Havana Hip Hop 74 JENNIFER BLEYER | Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion 75 JESSICA VALENTI | Pop Culture Gone Wild 10 Resisting Violence Against Women Rape Battering and Physical Abuse Incest Pornography 76 ANDREA SMITH | Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights 77 ALICE LEUCHTAG | Human Rights: Sex Trafficking and Prostitution 78 DIANA WASHINGTON VALDEZ | Deaths That Cry Out 79 DEBRA ANNE DAVIS | Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers? 80 JOETTA CARR | Campus Sexual Violence 81 GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES | Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 82 JOHN STOLTENBERG | Pornography and Freedom 83 HELEN CLARKSON | War Crimes 84 JANE FONDA | Reclaiming Our Mojo 11 State, Law, and Social Policy Government and Representation Women and the Law Public Policy The Criminal Justice System The Military 85 SUSAN B. ANTHONY | Constitutional Argument 86 CATHARINE A. MACKINNON | Law in the Everyday Life of Women 87 ELLEN BRAVO | What This Nation Really Thinks of Motherhood: Welfare Reform 88 ROBIN TEMPLETON | She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex 89 BAY FANG | The Talibanization of Iraq 90 CYNTHIA ENLOE | Demilitarizing Society in a Globalized World 12 Religion and Spirituality in Women's Lives Religion as Oppressive to Women Religion as Empowering to Women Women and God-Language Reinterpreting and Reconstructing Traditions Creating New Spiritual Traditions 91 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON | Introduction to The Woman's Bible 92 KAYLIN HAUGHT | God Says Yes to Me 93 KAREN MCCARTHY BROWN | Fundamentalism and the Control of Women 94 PAULA GUNN ALLEN | Grandmother of the Sun: The Power of Woman in Native America 95 ASRA Q. NOMANI | The Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in Mosques 96 JUDITH PLASKOW | Standing Again at Sinai 97 ALICIA OSTRIKER | Everywoman Her Own Theology 98 STARHAWK | Witchcraft and Women's Culture 99 PYTHIA PEAY | Religion and Feminism's Fourth Wave 13 Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures The Promise of Feminist Education Activism Future Visions 100 LISA MARIE HOGELAND | Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies 101 PHYLLIS ROSSER | Too Many Women in College? 102 MICHAEL KIMMEL | Real Men Join the Movement 103 DAZON DIXON DIALLO | Reflections of a Human Rights Educator 104 ALICE H. EAGLY AND LINDA L. CARLI | Women and Leadership 105 RUTH ROSEN | Epilogue: Beyond Backlash 106 JENNY JOSEPH | Warning
