Women's lives : multicultural perspectives

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Women's lives : multicultural perspectives

Gwyn Kirk, Margo Okazawa-Rey

McGraw-Hill, c2004

3rd ed

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This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies within a global context by examining the diversity of women's lives across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the reading selections. Each chapter includes reading questions and suggestions for taking action, to help students link what they learn to their own lives and to the world around them.

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* Indicates New ReadingPrefaceIntroduction: The Framework of This BookThe Focus of Women's StudiesThe Framework for This Book: Collective Action for a Sustainable FutureAn Activist ApproachA Sustainable and Secure FutureThe United States in a Global ContextLinking the Personal and the GlobalA Matrix of Oppression and ResistanceFeminisms: Tangling with the "F" WordMyth 1: Women's Studies is IdeologicalMyth 2: Women's Studies is a White, Middle-Class ThingMyth 3: Women's Studies is Narrowly Concerned with Women's IssuesScope of the BookPart 1: KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDINGChapter One. Theories and Theorizing: Integrative Frameworks for UnderstandingDefinition of a TheoryTheories, Theorizing, and Ways of KnowingThe Dominant PerspectiveAlternative PerspectivesThe Role of ValuesTheoretical Frameworks for Understanding Women's Lives"Socially Lived" TheorizingMedia Representations and the Creation of KnowledgeQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action 1 Judith Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gender"2 Allan G. Johnson, "Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us"3 Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"4 Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Defining Genealogies: Feminist Reflections on Being South Asian in North America"5 Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Who Am I If I'm Not My Father's Daughter?"*6 JeeYeun Lee, "Beyond Bean Counting" *7 Angharad N. Valdivia, "A Latina in the Land of Hollywood"Chapter Two: Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People?Being Myself: The Micro LevelCommunity Recognition, Expectations, and Interactions: The Meso LevelSocial categories, Classifications, and Structural Inequality: Macro and Global LevelsMaintaining Systems of Structural InequalityColonization, Immigration, and the U.S. Landscape of Race and ClassMultiple Identities, Social Location, and ContradictionsQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action8 Frederica Y. Daly, "Perspectives of Native American Women on Race and Gender"9 Dorothy Allison, "A Question of Class" 10 Elizabeth Martinez, "A Word about the Great Terminology Question"*11 Shailja Patel, "Shilling Love"12 Joanna Kadi, "Moving from Cultural Appropriation toward Ethical Cultural Connections"13 Mary C. Waters, "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?"14 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, "Jews, Class, Color, and the Cost of Whiteness" Part 2: OUR BODIES, OURSELVESChapter Three: Women's BodiesBody Image and the Beauty IdealThe Beauty IdealThe Beauty BusinessCommodification and Co-optionWhites Only? Forever Young? Always Able?Resisting Beauty StereotypesFeminist Theorizing about Body Image and Beauty IdealsBody PoliticsQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action15 Abra Fortune Chernik, "The Body Politic"16 Toni Morrison, "The Coming of Maureen Peal"17 Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Story of My Body"*18 Lani Ka'ahumanu, "My Body is a Map of My Life"*19 Cheryl Marie Wade, "I Am Not One of the"20 Donna Walton, "What's a Leg Got to Do with It?"*21 Lillian Rubin, "Tangled Lives" Chapter Four: Women's SexualityStereotypes, Contradictions, and Double StandardsWhat Is Women's Autonomous Sexuality?Challenging BinariesTheorizing SexualityThe Erotic as PowerActivism and SexualityQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action 22 Sandra Cisneros, "Guadalupe the Sex Goddess"23 Naomi Wolf, "Radical Heterosexuality"*24 Aurora Levins Morales, "Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood"*25 June Jordan, "A New Politics of Sexuality"26 Surina Khan, "The All-American Queer Pakistani Girl"27 Leslie Feinberg, "We Are All Works in Progress"28 Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"Chapter Five: Women's HealthReproductive HealthControlling FertilityMedicalization of Reproductive LifeWomen and IllnessEffects of Gender, Race, and ClassMental and Emotional HealthHealth and AgingThe Medical IndustryPaying for Medical CareOther Barriers and Biases in Medical Services and ResearchHealth as WellnessRequirements for Good HealthFeminist Approaches to WellnessQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action29 Joy Harjo, "Three Generations of Native American Women's Birth Experience"30 Marsha Saxton, "Reproductive Rights: A Disability Rights Issue"31 Annette Dula, "The Life and Death of Miss Mildred: An Elderly Black Woman"32 Rita Arditti with Tatiana Schreiber, "Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection -- 1998 Update"*33 Nicola Gavey, Kathryn McPhillips, Marion Doherty, "'If It's Not On, It's Not On'-Or Is It?"*34 "I Am a Beautiful Multifaceted Black Woman": Interview with Shirley Royster, HIV/AIDS ActivistChapter Six: Violence against WomenWhat Counts as Violence against Women?The Incidence of Violence against WomenEffects of Race, Class, Nation, Sexuality, and DisabilityExplanations of Violence against WomenMicro-level explanationsMacro-level explanationsEnding Violence against WomenThe Importance of a Political MovementProviding Support for Victims/SurvivorsPublic and Professional EducationPolicy and Legislative InitiativesContradiction of Seeking State Support to End Violence against WomenWomen's Rights as Human RightsQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action35 Grace Caroline Bridges, "Lisa's Ritual, Age 10"36 Fernando Mederos, "National Symposium on La Violencia Domestica: An Emerging Dialogue Among Latinos"*37 Lora Jo Foo "Domestic Violence and Asian American Women"*38 Andy Smith, "Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide"39 Haki R. Madhubuti, "On Becoming Anti-Rapist"*40 Eve Ensler, "My Vagina Was My Village"Part 3: MAKING A HOME, MAKING A LIVINGChapter Seven: Relationships, Families, and HouseholdsDefining Ourselves through Connections with Others Marriage and Domestic Partnership Motherhood and Parenting The Ideal Nuclear FamilyU.S. Families: Cultural and Historical Variations Immigration and the Family Feminist Perspectives Challenging the Private/Public Dichotomy Mothering and Maternal Thinking The Family and the Economic SystemPolicy Implications and ImplementationToward a Redefinition of Family Values Questions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action*41 Sharon Olds, "35/10"*42 Jaclyn Geller, "The Marriage Mystique"*43 Maria Hinojosa, "Raising Kids Como Los Americanos"44 Rachel Aber Schlesinger, "Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L'Chol Dor Va Dor"45 Carol Gill and Larry A. Voss, "Shattering Two Molds: Feminist Parents with Disabilities"46 Ann Filemyr, "Loving across the Boundary"Chapter Eight: Work, Wages, and WelfareDefining Women's WorkWomen in the U.S. Workforce Women's Wages: The Effects of Gender, Race, Class, Disability, and EducationDiscrimination against Working Women: Sexual Harassment, Age, and DisabilityBalancing Home and WorkOrganized Labor and Collective ActionPensions, Disability Payments, and WelfarePensions and Disability PaymentsWelfareFeminist Approaches to Women's Work and IncomeComparable WorthFeminization of PovertyImpact of ClassPolicy Implications and Activist ProjectsPromoting Greater Economic Security for WomenQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action47 Hattie Gossett, "the cleaning woman/labor relations #4"48 Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei, "The Transformation of Women's Wage Work"49 "He Works, She Works, but What Different Impressions They Make"50 Jeannine Ouellette Howitz, "Reflections of a Feminist Mom"51 Gwendolyn Mink, "Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the Welfare Police State"*52 Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, "Movement Roots"Chapter Nine: Living in a Global EconomyThe Global FactoryThe Profit MotiveConsumerism, Expansionism, and WasteThe Myth of ProgressEmphasis on Immediate CostsThe Global EconomyComplex InequalitiesLegacies of ColonialismExternal DebtImplications of Global Economic InequalitiesConnections to U.S. Policy IssuesInternational Alliances among WomenThe Seeds of a New Global EconomyQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action53 Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, "Maquiladoras: The View from Inside"54 Grace Chang, "The Global Trade in Filipina Workers"55 Leslie Marmon Silko, "The Border Patrol State"*56 Pat Mora, "La Migra"57 Diverse Women for Diversity, "Seattle Declaration" Part 4: SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITYChapter Ten: Women, Crime and CriminalizationThe National Context: "Get Tough on Crime"Women in the Criminal Justice SystemCharacteristics of Incarcerated WomenOffenses Committed by Women and Patterns of ArrestSentence Length and Time ServedRace and Class DisparitiesGirls in the Criminal Justice SystemWomen Political PrisonersTheories of Women and Crime"Equality with a Vengeance": Is Equal Treatment Fair Treatment?The "Prison Industrial Complex"Inside/Outside ConnectionsQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action 58 Shannon Murray, "Shannon's Story"59 Nancy Kurshan, "Behind the Walls: The History and Current Reality of Women's Imprisonment"60 Dorothy Roberts, "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy" 61 Rita Takahashi, "U.S. Concentration Camps a nd Exclusion Policies: Impact on Japanese American Women*62 ACLU of Illinois, "ACLU of Illinois Challenges Ethnic and Religious Bias in Strip Search of Muslim Women at O'Hare International Airport"Chapter Eleven: Women and the Military, War, and PeaceThe Need for Women in the MilitaryThe Military as EmployerLimitations to Women's Equal ParticipationWomen in Combat RolesOfficer Training: Storming the CitadelSexism and MisogynyRacismSexual OrientationMilitary WivesThe Impact of the U.S. Military on Women OverseasMilitarized ProstitutionMixed-Race Children Fathered by U.S. TroopsCrimes of Violence against WomenHealth Effects of Environmental ContaminationWomen's Opposition to the MilitaryEarly Peace Organizations in the United StatesFeminist Antimilitarist PerspectivesRedefining SecurityQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action63 Melinda Smith Wells, "The Women in Blue"64 Jean Grossholtz, "The Search for Peace and Justice: Notes toward an Autobiography"65 Women's Pentagon Action, "Unity Statement"*66 Women of Color Resource Center, "Ten Reasons Why Women Should Oppose the US `War on Terrorism'"*67 Charlotte Bunch, "Whose Security?" *68 Cynthia Enloe "Sneak Attack: The Militarization of U.S. Culture"69 David Croteau and William Hoynes,"Media and Ideology" (excerpt)Chapter Twelve: Women and the EnvironmentTheoretical and Activist PerspectivesEnvironmentalismDeep Ecology and BioregionalismEcofeminismEnvironmental JusticeConnectedness and SustainabilityQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action 70 Ynestra King, "The Ecofeminist Imperative"71 Robbin Lee Zeff, Marsha Love, and Karen Stults, "Empowering Ourselves: Women and Toxics Organizing"72 The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, "Principles of Environmental Justice" 73 Mililani Trask, "Native Hawaiian Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Justice" 74 Cindy Chan Saelee, "My Mom's Garden"75 H. Patricia Hynes, "Consumption: North American Perspectives"Part 5: ACTIVISM AND CHANGEChapter Thirteen: Creating Change: Theory, Vision, and ActionHow Does Change Happen?Using the Head: Theories for Social ChangeUsing the Heart: Visions for Social ChangeUsing the Hands: Action for Social ChangeOvercoming Blocks to Effective ActionWomen and Political ActivismIdentity-Based PoliticsFeminist MovementsWomen in Electoral PoliticsBuilding Alliances for the Twenty First CenturySome Principles for Alliance BuildingOvercoming Impediments to Effective AlliancesCreating a Secure and Sustainable WorldQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action *76 Christina Leano , "Listening to the Voices of My Spiritual Self"77 Barbara Omolade, "Ella's Daughters"*78 Becky Thompson, "Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism"79 Cynthia Cohen, "Common Threads: Life Stories and the Arts in Educating for Social Change"80 Michele Swers, "Research on Women in Legislatures: What Have We Learned? Where Are We Going?"81 Suzanne Pharr, "Multi-Issue Politics" *82 Kalima Rose, "Taking on the Global Economy" 83 Cynthia Cohen, "Common Threads: Life Stories and the Arts in Educating for Social Change"84 Michele Swers, "Research on Women in Legislatures: What Have We Learned? Where Are We Going?"85 Suzanne Pharr, "Multi-Issue Politics"*86 Kalima Rose, "Taking on the Global Economy" Glossary ReferencesCreditsAbout the Authors * Indicates New Reading

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