Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions
(*new to this edition)
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Women's and Gender Studies: Perspectives and Practices
The Origins of WGS
Women's Rights Activism in the United States
WGS Today
WGS and Feminism
Feminism and its Myths
1. Adrienne Rich, "Claiming an Education"
2. Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Consciousness"
3. *Combahee River Collective Statement
4. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, "A Day Without Feminism"
5. Kia M. Q. Hall, "A Transnational Black Feminist Framework"
6. *Valentine M. Moghadam, "Transnational Feminist Networks and Contemporary Crises"
7. Graciela Mochkofsky, "Who Are You Calling Latinx?"
8. Marge Piercy, "My Heroines"
Chapter 2: Systems of Privilege and Inequality
Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality
Discourse, Power, and Knowledge
Institutions
9. Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward a New Vision"
10. Vivian M. May, "Intersectionality"
11. Audre Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression"
12. Gina Crosley-Corcoran, " Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"
13. Evin Taylor, "Cisgender Privilege"
14. Ellie Mamber, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says"
15. *Andrew Pulrang, "On Disability"
16. Jim Ferris "Poems with Disabilities"
Chapter 3: Learning Gender
Gender, Culture, and Biology
Masculinity
Femininity
Gender Fluidity
Gender Ranking
17. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes, Revisited"
18. Judith Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gende"
19. *Lisa M. Diamond, "Gender Fluidity and Nonbinary Gender Identities Among Children and Adolescents"
20. *Lise Eliot, "You don't have a male or female brain"
21. *Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, "Becoming a Maya Woman"
22. Nellie Wong, "When I Was Growing Up"
23. *Lois Gould, "X: A Fabulous Child's Story"
Chapter 4: Inscribing Gender on the Body
The Social Construction of the Body
The "Beauty" Ideal
Eating Disorders
Negotiating "Beauty" Ideals
24. *Viren Swamia, et al, "The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey"
25. Gloria Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate"
26. *Charlotte Lieberman, "My Eating Disorder Made Me Feel Like a Feminist Fraud"
27. *Marika Tiggemann Flinders, "The effect of viewing celebrity Instagram images with disclaimer and body positive captions on women's body image"
28. Susie Orbach, "Fat is Still a Feminist Issue"
29. *Jackson Bird, "Getting' jacked"
Chapter 5: Media and Culture
Digital Technologies
Television and Streaming Services
Movies
Contemporary Music and Music Videos
Print Media
Literature and the Arts
30. Virginia Woolf, "Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister"
31. Emily Dickinson, "The Wife"
32. Audre Lorde, "Poetry is Not a Luxury"
33. *Paul Onanuga, "How young, queer Nigerians use Twitter to shape identity and fight homophobia"
34. *Melanie Kennedy, "TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis"
35. *Stephanie X. Hu, "Toxic Royalty: Feminism and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Disney Princess Films"
36. *Jyni Verma, "What is Pop Feminism?: Unpacking the Layers of 'Girl Power' Feminism"
Chapter 6: Sex, Power, and Intimacy
The Social Construction of Sexuality
The Politics of Sexuality
Romantic Intimacy
37. Linda Kay Klein, Pure
38. Ellen Bass, "Gate C22"
39. *Sunita Manian, "An intersectional inquiry into youth sexuality in two Indian states"
40. Carl Collison, "Queer Muslim Women are Making Salaam with Who They Are"
41. *Brandon Ambrosino, "The Invention of 'Heterosexuality'"
42. *Michael Waters, "Finding Asexuality in the Archives"
43. *Simon, Copland, "Born this way? Society, sexuality and the search for the 'gay gene'"
44. Kimberly Springer, "Queering Black Female Heterosexuality"
Chapter 7: Health and Reproductive Justice
Health and Wellness
Health Equity
Androcentrism and Medicalization
Stereotyping
Corporate Responsibility
Reproductive Justice
Sterilization Practices
Parenting Options and Contraceptive Technologies
Abortion in the United States
The Chipping Away of Roe v Wade
45. *Renee Fabian, "Why Mental Health Is A Feminist Issue"
46. *Kristina Hinz, et al, "Unholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justice"
47. Sarah Combellick-Bidney, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights"
48. Aisha Wagner, "Doctors Need to Talk Openly about Race-Our Patients Depend on It"
49. *Whitney Wood and Joanna Bourke, "Conceptualising Gender and Pain in Modern History"
50. Don Operario and Tooru Nemoto,"On Being Transnational and Transgender"
51. *Jennifer Gerson, "How Indigenous Women Repealed New Mexico's Longstanding Abortion Ban"
Chapter 8: Family Systems, Family Lives
Definitions of Family
Family Diversity
Institutional Connections
Gender, Power, and Family Relationships
Family Work
Parenting
Household Labor
52. Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love"
53. *Katherine Goldstein, "Where are the Mothers"
54. *C. Nicole Mason, "A Black, Queer Single Mother on Why I Am Proud to Use the Term Single Mother by Choice"
55. *How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
56. *Emma John, "Why are increasing numbers of women choosing to be single?"
57. 8.6 Folah Oludayo and Susan Shaw, "Family Violence is Fueling the Trafficking of Yorùbá Girls in Nigeria"
58. Mohja Kahf, "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears"
Chapter 9: Paid Employment
Trends and Legalities
The Dual Labor Market and the Changing Economy
Labor Force Participation
Differences in Earned Income
59. Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter, "A Brief History of Working Women"
60. *Corinne Schwarz, Emily J. Kennedy, and Hannah Britton, "Aligned Across Difference"
61. *Vesselina Stefanova Ratcheva and Saadia Zahid, "Which Country Will Be the First to Close the Gender Gap?"
62. *Christopher Carpenter and Gilbert Gonzales, "Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor"
63. *Madison Pauly, "Massage Parlor Workers Say Policing Isn't the Answer to the Violence They Face"
64. Leah Fessler, "Workplace Harassment in the Age of Remote Work"
Chapter 10: Resisting Gender Violence
Gender Violence in the US and Worldwide
Child Molestation and Incest
Teen Violence
Stalking
Sexual Assault and Rape
Intimate Partner Physical Violence
65. Mariah Lockwood, "She Said"
66. *Emilie Linder, "Gender Aspects of Human Trafficking"
67. *Homa Khaleeli, "#SayHerName"
68. *Chelsea Spencer, et al, "Why Sexual Assault Survivors Do Not Report to Universities"
69. *Lisa Monchalina, Olga Marquesb, Charles Reasons, Prince Arorad, "Homicide and Indigenous peoples in North America"
70. *Mikki Kendall, Gun Violence
71. Grace Caroline Bridges, "Lisa's Ritual, Age 10"
Chapter 11: State, Law, and Social Policy
Government and Representation
Gender and Citizenship
Gender and Electoral Politics
Public Policy
The Criminal Justice System
The Military
72. Susan B. Anthony, "Constitutional Argument"
73. *Kaden Paulson-Smith, "Political Violence Targeting LGBT+ Communities in Africa"
74. *Jim Daley, "Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests"
75. Margot Wallstrom, "Speech on Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy" (75)
76. *Brenda Della Casa, "What It Feels Like to be on Welfare"
77. *Susan M. Shaw, "The Women of the Insurrection"
Chapter 12: Religion and Spirituality
Religion as Oppressive
Religion as Empowering
Gender and God-Language
Reinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing Traditions
Interconnections between Religion and Other Social Institutions
Creating New Spiritual Traditions
78. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Introduction to The Woman's Bible"
79. *Ansel Elkins, "Autobiography of Eve"
80. 12.3 Karen McCarthy Brown, "Fundamentalism and the Control of Women"
81. *Brittney Cooper, "Grown-Woman Theology"
82. *Maryam Khan & Nick J. Mulé, "LBTQ Muslim Women Living Out Intersectional Lives in North America"
83. *Salomé Grouard, "Buddhist Nuns and Their Crusade for Recognition in Southeast Asia"
84. *Mara H. Benjamin, "Tracing the Contours of Half a Century of Jewish Feminist Theology"
85. *Kelly Brown Douglas, "How Evangelicals Became White"
Chapter 13: Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures
The Promise of Feminist Education
Activism
Future Visions
86. Byron Hurt, "Feminist Men"
87. Maizi, "I Went to Jail for Handing out Feminist Stickers in China"
88. *Kalki Subramanian, "I'm on a mission to empower India's transgender community, one painted palm at a time"
89. Teresa Velasquez, "Mestiza Women's Anti-Mining Activism in Andean Ecuador"
90. Lucas Platero and Esther Ortega-Arjonilla, "Building Coalitions"
91. Laurie Penny, "Most Women You Know are Angry"
92. Loretta J. Ross, "Speaking Up Without Tearing Down"
93. Yvette Alex-Assensoh, "What's Love Got to Do with It?"
94. *Kristal Brent Zook, "How Black Lives Matter Came to the Academy"
95. Jenny Joseph, "Warning"
