Feminist Frontiers

Laurel Richardson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University. She received her bachelor degrees from The University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. from The University of Colorado. She is the author of The Dynamics Of Sex And Gender, The New Other Woman, Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences, Gender And University Teaching, and the C. H. Cooley Award Winning Book, Fields Of Play: Constructing An Academic Life. She has received many honors for her academic work and for her work on behalf of social justice. She is currently writing an autoethnography, Movin' On, in which she integrates the personal with the political around issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. 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.

*Indicates new reading or boxed insertPREFACEPART ONE: INTRODUCTIONSection One: Diversity and Difference1. Oppression, Marilyn Frye2.Distinctions in Western Women's Experience: Ethnicity, Class, and Social Change, Rosalinda Mendez Gonzalez3. Where I Come From Is Like This, Paula Gunn AllenBOXED 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 Perspectives6."Night To His Day": The Social Construction of Gender, Judith LorberBOXED INSERT: Portrait of a Man, Loren Cameron7. The Medical Construction of Gender, Suzanne Kessler *8. Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill CollinsBOXED INSERT: Womanist, Alice Walker PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATIONSection Three: Representation, Language, and Culture9.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 Banks12. Selling Hot Pussy, bell hooks13. Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance, Yen Le Espiritu Section Four: Socialization14."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 Paley17. Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Families, Barbara Risman PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDERSection Five: Work18.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 HertzBOXED INSERT: The Mommy Test, Barbara Ehrenreich 23.Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment, Denise A. Segura24. *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 Bordo28. 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-SterlingBOXED INSERT: If Men Could Menstruate, Gloria Steinem*BOXED INSERT: I'm Taking Back My Pussy: A Transgression of Privatized Gynecological Boundaries, Claire T. Porter31."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-JeffersonBOXED INSERT: Assessing Older Lesbians' Health Needs, Sharon Deevey *33. The Muslim Female Heroic: Shorts or Veils, Jennifer Hargreaves Section Nine: Violence Against Women34.Fraternities and Rape on Campus, Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. HummerBOXED INSERT: Men Changing Men, Robert L. Allen and Paul Kivel35.Supremacy Crimes, Gloria Steinem *36. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, Kimberle Crenshaw37.Accountability or Justice? Rape as a War Crime, Mary Ann Tetreault PART FOUR: SOCIAL CHANGESection Ten: Global Politics and the State38.Surviving the Welfare System: How AFDC Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago, Kathryn Edin*39. The Truth About Women and Power, Harriet Woods*BOXED INSERT: Iraq's Little Secret, Nicholas D. Kristoff40. The Globe Trotting Sneaker, Cynthia Enloe*41. Hindu Women's Activism in India and the Questions It Raises, Amrita BasuBOXED INSERT: Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trendy, Norimitsu Onishi Section Eleven: Social Protest and the Feminist Movement*42. The Gendered Organization of Hate: Women in the U.S. Ku Klux Klan, Kathleen M. Blee*43. What Promises Can Men Keep?: How Men Renegotiate Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement, Melanie Heath44. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: the Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen45. The Next Feminist Generation: Imagine My Surprise, Ellen Neuborne46.The Women's Movement: Persistence through Transformation, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Cynthia Fabrizio PelakBOXED INSERT: Linking Arms and Movements, Urvashi Vaid Vaid*Indicates New Reading or Boxed Insert