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| Preface | |
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| Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices | |
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| What Is Women's Studies? | |
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| How Did Women's Studies Come About? | |
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| What Were the Origins of Women's Rights Activism in the United States? | |
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| What Is the Status of Women's Studies on College Campuses Today? | |
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| What Does Women's Studies Have to Do with Feminism? | |
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| What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism? | |
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| Claiming an Education | |
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| Forty Years of Women's Studies: Origins and Intersections | |
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| The Housewife's Moment of Truth | |
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| A Day Without Feminism | |
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| Feminist Politics: Where We Stand | |
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| Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary | |
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| Still Needing the F Word | |
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| My Heroines | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 1 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Systems of Privilege and Inequality | |
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| Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality | |
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| Institutions | |
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| Ideology | |
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| Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection | |
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| Oppression | |
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| There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression | |
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| Homophobia: a Weapon of Sexism | |
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| White Privilege and Male Privilege | |
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| What's Race Gotta Do with It? | |
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| Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda | |
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| Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says | |
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| The Social Construction of Disability | |
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| Report from the Bahamas | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 2 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Learning Gender | |
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| Biology and Culture | |
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| Masculinity | |
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| Femininity | |
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| Gender Ranking | |
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| The Five Sexes, Revisited | |
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| The Social Construction of Gender | |
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| Unraveling Hardwiring | |
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| Trans Identities and Contigent Masculinities: Being Tombois in Everyday Practice | |
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| Shame-O-Phobia | |
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| When I Was Growing Up | |
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| Through the Lens of Race: Black and White Women's Perception of Womanhood | |
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| (Rethinking) Gender | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 3 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Sex, Power, and Intimacy | |
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| The Social Construction of Sexuality | |
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| The Politics of Sexuality | |
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| Intimacies | |
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| The Cult of Virginity | |
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| Romance: Sweet Love | |
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| What Is Bisexuality? | |
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| Gate C22 | |
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| A World of Difference | |
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| Some Like Indians Endure | |
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| I'm Gonna Wash That King Right Out of My Hair | |
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| Dismantling Hierarchy, Queering Society | |
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| Queering Black Female Heterosexuality | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 4 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Inscribing Gender on the Body | |
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| Bodies, Nature, and Women | |
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| The "Beauty" Ideal | |
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| Eating Disorders | |
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| Resisting "Beauty" Ideals | |
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| Breast Buds and the "Training" Bra | |
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| If Men Could Menstruate | |
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| Prosthetic Power | |
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| Beating Anorexia and Gaining Feminism | |
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| Body Ethics and Aesthetics Among African American and Latina Women | |
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| What We Do for Love | |
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| Hold That Nose | |
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| Love Your Fat Self | |
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| China's Cosmetic Surgery Craze | |
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| Designer Vaginas | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 5 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Health and Reproductive Rights | |
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| Health and Wellness | |
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| Reproductive Choice | |
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| My Fight for Birth Control | |
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| The Way It Was | |
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| HIV Risk Behavior Among College Students in the United States | |
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| A Global Health Imperative | |
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| Rethinking Radical Politics in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology | |
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| Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice | |
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| Eyes on the Prize | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 6 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Family Systems, Family Lives | |
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| Definitions of Family | |
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| Institutional Connections | |
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| Power and Family Relationships | |
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| Mothering | |
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| Marriage and Love | |
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| Who Wants to Marry a Feminist? | |
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| Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake | |
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| Partners as Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage | |
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| Hardscrabble Salvation | |
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| Lullabies Behind Bars | |
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| Our Grandmothers | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 7 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Women's Work Inside and Outside the Home | |
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| Unpaid Labor in the Home | |
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| Paid Labor | |
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| The Politics of Housework | |
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| a Brief History of Working Women | |
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| Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work | |
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| Color Me Nontoxic | |
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| Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out | |
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| The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment | |
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| The Strange Relationship Between Feminism and Sex Work | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 8 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Women Confronting and Creating Culture | |
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| Digital Technologies | |
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| Television | |
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| The Movies | |
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| Contemporary Music and Music Videos | |
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| Print Media | |
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| Literature and the Arts | |
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| Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister | |
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| The Wife | |
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| Jane Addiction | |
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| Poetry Is Not a Luxury | |
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| Enlightened Sexism | |
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| If Women Ran Hip Hop | |
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| Death Wore Black Chiffon: Sex and Gender in CSI | |
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| Singing and Dancing with Gender: Two Essays on Reality TV | |
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| Sexting | |
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| Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines Doing Feminism | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 9 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Resisting Violence Against Women | |
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| Rape | |
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| Battering and Physical Abuse | |
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| Incest | |
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| Pornography | |
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| Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: | |
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| Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights | |
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| She Said | |
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| The Lost Girls | |
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| Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers? | |
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| Confronting Violence | |
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| Textual Harassment | |
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| Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 | |
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| Rape and War: Three Essays on a Theme | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 10 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| State, Law, and Social Policy | |
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| Government and Representation | |
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| Women and the Law | |
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| Public Policy | |
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| The Criminal Justice System | |
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| The Military | |
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| Constitutional Argument | |
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| Too Poor to Parent | |
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| Title IX Update: Two Essays | |
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| Delinquent Girls | |
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| The Plight of Women Soldiers | |
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| From Rescue to Recognition: Rethinking the Afghan Conflict | |
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| First Morning in Exile | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 11 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Religion and Spirituality | |
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| Religion as Oppressive to Women | |
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| Religion as Empowering to Women | |
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| Women and God-Language | |
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| Reinterpreting, Reconstructing, and Decolonizing Traditions | |
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| Creating New Spiritual Traditions | |
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| Introduction to The Woman's Bible | |
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| God Says Yes to Me | |
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| Fundamentalism and the Control of Women | |
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| Decolonizing Religious Beliefs | |
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| An Interview with the Prophet's Daughter | |
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| Standing Again at Sinai | |
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| Everywoman Her Own Theology | |
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| Feminist Questions of Christianity | |
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| Catholic and Feminist: You Got a Problem with That? | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 12 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Activism, Change, and Feminist Futures | |
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| The Promise of Feminist Education | |
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| Activism | |
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| Future Visions | |
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| Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies | |
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| Too Many Women in College? | |
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| Real Men Join the Movement | |
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| Wonder | |
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| Epilogue: Beyond Backlash | |
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| Amber Waves of Blame | |
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| We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For | |
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| Warning | |
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| Discussion Questions for Chapter 13 | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |