Feminist Frontiers / Edition 9

by Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, Leila Rupp

Overview

Feminist Frontiers is intended for use in courses on women’s studies, gender studies, feminist studies, or the sociology of gender. It offers a general framework for analyzing women, society, and culture; its classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics cut across disciplinary and generational lines, presenting the full diversity of women’s lives and exploring commonalities and interconnected differences. New selections in the tenth edition emphasize the diversity of women’s experiences and the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability.

New to This Edition:

• Thirty-five new selections emphasize the diversity of women’s experiences and promote understanding of how gender inequality intersects with other systems of oppression, including race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability
• Highlights contemporary issues including “gender of Trumpism,” climate change, mass shootings, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement to address issues students face on a daily basis
• Inclusion of blogs and online writings emphasizes the impact of social media on society including Facebook, Twitter, and online gaming

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078026621
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	09/16/2011
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Verta Taylor is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on gender, sexuality, and social movements. She is coauthor with Leila J. Rupp of Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s and Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret;author of Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression; coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism and The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, and author of nearly 150 articles, chapters, and reviews.Professor Taylor received the American Sociological Association’s 2011 Jessie Bernard Award for lifetime contributions to the study of gender, and in 2008 she received the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award for her scholarship on social movements and the Simon and Gagnon Award for her career of scholarship on the study of sexualities. She has also been awarded Sociologists for Women in Society’s Mentoring and Feminist Lecturer Awards.

Nancy Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College, where she teaches classes on gender, sexuality, social movements, and research methods. She is the author of Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence, The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotions, Social Movements, and the State, Feminist Generations, and numerous articles on social movements, gender, and sexual violence, and is coauthor of Statistics for Social Understanding.

Leila J. Rupp is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She coedited Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History,which won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014. She is the author of Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement, and Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945, and coauthor, with Verta Taylor, of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections.

Table of Contents

Preface About the Editors Part I: Introduction Section One: Diversity and Difference 1.Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed 2.White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh 3.The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House Audre Lorde 4.We Hold Our Hands Up: On Indigenous Women’s Love and Resistance Dory Nason 5.Naming: Freaks and Queers Eli Clare Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives 6."Night To His Day": The Social Construction of Gender Judith Lorber 7.The Medical Construction of Gender Suzanne Kessler 8.Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question Susan Stryker 9.Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color Kimberlé Crenshaw Part II: Gender, Culture, and Socialization Section Three: Represenation, Language, and Culture 10. Gender Stereotyping in the English Language Laurel Richardson 11.Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: Grassroots Activism and the Dove ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign Josée Johnston and Judy Taylor 12.Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty Debra Gimlin 13.Hair Still Matters Ingrid Banks 14.Look @ Me 2.0: Self-Sexualization in Facebook Photographs, Body Surveillance and Body Image Lindsay Ruckel and Melanie Hill 15.Pregnancy, Then it’s “Back to Business:” Beyoncé, Black Femininity, and the Politics of a Post-Feminist Gender Regime Dayna Chatman Section Four: Socialization 16.Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films Karin Martin and Emily Kazyak 17.“I Wanted a Soul Mate:” Gendered Anticipation and Frameworks of Accountability in Parents’ Preferences for Sons and Daughters Emily W. Kane 18.The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child Elizabeth Rahilly 19. “This is Your Job Now:” Latina Mothers and Daughters and Family Work Lorena Garcia Part III: Social Organization of Gender Section Five: Work and the Economy 20.Feminism and the Labor Movement: A Century of Collaboration and Conflict Eileen Boris and Annelise Orleck 21.Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experience with Women’s Work Adia Harvey Wingfield 22.The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons Miliann Kang 23.Maid in L.A. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 24.Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry Lauren Alfrey and France Winddance Twine Section Six: Families 25.Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War Carolyn Herbst Lewis 26.Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change Kathleen Gerson 27.Love’s Labor’s Cost: The Family Life of Migrant Domestic Workers Rhacel Parreñas 28.Two Sides of the Same Coin: Revising Studies of Lesbian Sexuality and Family Formation through the Study of Black Women Mignon Moore 29.Intensive Mothering on the Homefront: An Analysis of Army Mothers Kimberly Murray 30.A Reproductive Justice Approach to Safe Haven Baby Laws Laury Oaks Section Seven: Sexualities 31.Adolescent Girls' Sexuality: the more it changes, the more it stays the same Deborah L. Tolman 32.Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? Elizabeth Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England 33.Straight Girls Kissing Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor 34.Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures Jane Ward 35.The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men: Negotiating Sexuality Through Gender Kristin Schilt and Elroi Windsor Section Eight: Bodies, Health, and Reproduction 36."A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women Becky Wangsgaard Thompson 37.Loose Lips Sink Ships Simone Weil Davis 38.The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic: Rethinking Reproductive Frameworks through the South Dakota Abortion Story Carly Thomsen 39.Navigating Public Spaces: Gender, Race, and Body Privilege Samantha Kwan 40.Conquering the Black Girls Blues Lani Valencia Jones and Beverly Guy-Sheftall Section Nine: Violence 41.Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls’ Violence Laurie Schaffner 42.How You Bully a Girl: Sexual Drama and the Negotiation of Gendered Sexuality in High School Sarah Miller 43.Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape Elizabeth Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney 44.Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape C.J. Pascoe and Jocelyn A. Hollander 45. “I Can Defend Myself:” Women’s Strategies for Coping with Harassment While Gaming Online Amanda C. Cote Part IV: Social Change Section Ten: Global Politics and the State 46.Who is a Real Man? The Gender of Trumpism C.J. Pascoe 47.From the Third World to the “Third World Within:” Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization Grace Chang 48.Intersecting Identities and Global Climate Change Joane Nagel 49.Mass Shootings and Masculinity Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober 50.Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others Lila Abu-Lughod Section Eleven: Social Protest and Feminist Movements 51.Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy Cohen 52.From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of Reproductive Justice Organizing Zakiya Luna 53.Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism Aida Hernandez Castillo 54.The Story of a Slut Walk: Sexuality, Race, and Generational Divisions in Contemporary Feminist Activism Jo Reger 55.Facebook Feminism: Social Media, Blogs, and New Technologies of Contemporary U.S. Feminism Alison Dahl Crossley 56.#safetytipsforladies: Feminist Twitter Takedowns of Victim Blaming Carrie Rentschler 57.A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Alicia Garza Credits