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Feminist Frontiers

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ISBN-10: 0078026628

ISBN-13: 9780078026621

Edition: 9th 2012

Authors: Verta Taylor, Leila Rupp, Nancy Whittier

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The most widely used anthology of feminist writings,Feminist Frontiershas stood the test of time. 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.Feminist Frontiersoffers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in interaction with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, ability, and nation, and introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. The ninth edition maintains a consistent coverage of diversity within a global perspective while highlighting the impact of new technologies on women’s lives and…    
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Book details

List price: $170.67
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 9/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

About the Editors
Preface
Introduction
Diversity and Difference
Being the Bridge: A Solitary Black Woman's Position in the Women's Studies Classroom as a Feminist Student and Professor
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Where I Come From Is Like This
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
The Mountain
Theoretical Perspectives
"Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender
The Medical Construction of Gender
Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question
Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism
Gender in the Borderlands
Masculinities and Globalization
Gender, Culture, and Socialization
Representation, Language, and Culture
Gender Stereotyping in the English Language
Sexing the Internet: Reflections on the Role of Identification in Online Communities
Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: A Comparative Study of Grassroots Activism and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign
Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty
Hair Still Matters
Socialization
Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films
Pretty Baby
Girls and Boys Together..but Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools
"We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do:" Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives
Social Organization of Gender
Work
Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force
Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Education, Race, and Hispanic Origin, 2009
The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons
Maid in L.A.
Organizing Home Care
Families
Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality During the Cold War
What if Marriage is Bad for Us?
Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change
For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market
Sexualities
Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality
Shopping for Love: Online Dating and the Making of a Cyber Culture of Romance
Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?
Straight Girls Kissing
Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals," Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality
Bodies
The Bare Bones of Sex: Part I-Sex and Gender
"A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems Among African-American, Latina, and White Women
Loose Lips Sink Ships
Google Babies: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy
Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice
Violence Against Women
Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls' Violence: From Private Injury to Public Harm
"My Strength Is Not for Hurting": Men's Anti-Rape Websites and Their Construction of Masculinity and Male Sexuality
Fraternities and Rape on Campus
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
Social Change
Global Politics and the State
Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women's Resistance
From the Third World to the "Third World Within": Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization
Gendered Selves and Identities of Information Technology Professionals in Global Software Organizations in India
Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
Social Protest and Feminist Movements
Forever Feminism: The Persistence of the U.S. Women's Movement, 1960-2011
Feminists or "Postfeminists"? Young Women's Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gender Relations
Young Women, Late Modern Politics, and the Participatory Possibilities of Online Cultures
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?
We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: Young Black Feminists Take Their Research and Activism Online
Transform The World: What You Can Do with a Degree in Women's Studies
Acknowledgments