Reconstructing gender : a multicultural anthology / [edited by] Estelle Disch.

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Contributors: Disch, Estelle
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : McGraw-Hill, [2006]
Edition:4th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Puerto Rican dummy and the merciful son / Martin Espada
  • 2. From nothing, a consciousness / Helen Zia
  • 3. The past is ever present : recognizing the new racism / Patricia Hill Collins
  • 4. Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today / Paula Gunn Allen
  • 5. "J.A.P"-slapping : the politics of scapegoating / Ruth Atkin and Adrienne Rich
  • 6. White privilege : unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh
  • 7. Controlled or autonomous : identity and the experience of the network, women living under Muslim laws / Farida Shaheed
  • 8. Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism / Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill
  • 9. Patriarchy, the system : an it, not a he, a them or an us / Allan Johnson
  • 10. Reflections on global governance and transnational feminist movements in an era of infinite war / Rosalind Petchesky
  • 11. The social construction of gender / Judith Lorber
  • 12. Boyhood, organized sports, and the construction of masculinities / Michael A. Messner
  • 13. Who's the fairest of them all? / Jill Nelson
  • 14. The myth of the Latin woman : I just met a girl named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • 15. He defies you still : the memoirs of a sissy / Tommi Avicolli
  • 16. Growing up hidden / Linnea Due
  • 17. Beauty is the beast : psychological effects of the pursuit of the perfect female body / Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler
  • 18. Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko
  • 19. "A way outa no way" : eating problems among African American, Latina, and white women / Becky W. Thompson
  • 20. Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples
  • 21. Taking it / Leonard Kriegel
  • 22. Do you remember me? / Barbara Macdonald
  • 23. I'm not fat, I'm Latina / Christy Haubegger
  • 24. The tyranny of the esthetic : surgery's most intimate violation / Martha A. Coventry
  • 25. For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend / Pat Parker
  • 26. You just don't understand : women and men in conversation / Deborah Tannen
  • 27. Real men don't cry ... and other "uncool" myths / Phil W. Petrie
  • 28. The new momism / Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
  • 29. Claiming Jezebel : black female subjectivity and sexual expressions in hip-hop / Ayana Byrd
  • 30. The new girls network : women, technology, and feminism / Shireen Lee
  • 31. Where are the women? : the strange case of the missing feminists. When was the last time you saw one on TV? / Laura Zimmerman
  • 32. How men have (a) sex / Jon Stoltenberg
  • 33. The myth of the sexual athlete / Don Sabo
  • 34. Reproductive rights : a disability rights issue / Marsha Saxton
  • 35. The impact of multiple marginalization / Paula C. Rust
  • 36. Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde
  • 37. The transformation of family life / Lillian B. Rubin
  • 38. Bloodmothers, othermothers, and women-centered networks / Patricia Hill Collins
  • 39. Dilemmas of involved fatherhood / Kathleen Gerson
  • 40. Man child : a black lesbian feminist's response / Audre Lorde
  • 41. I am a man / Raul E. Ybarra
  • 42. What is marriage for? / E. J. Graff
  • 43. Missing in interaction / Myra Sadker and David Sadker
  • 44. "What about the boys?" : what the current debates tell us - and don't tell us - about boys in school / Michael S. Kimmel
  • 45. Conflict within the Ivory Tower / Ruth Sidel
  • 46. Black and female : reflections on graduate school / Bell Hooks
  • 47. The "success" of welfare reform / Sharon Hays
  • 48. Sixty cents to a man's dollar / Ann Crittenden
  • 49. Why are there no male Asian anchormen on TV? / Ben Fong-Torres
  • 50. The effects of affirmative action on other stakeholders / Barbara Reskin
  • 51. "Global woman" / Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • 52. America's dirty work : migrant maids and modern-day slavery / Joy M. Zarembka
  • 53. The globetrotting sneaker / Cynthia Enloe
  • 54. Women, violence, and resistance / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
  • 55. The ultimate growth industry : trafficking in women and girls / Jan Goodwin
  • 56. Where race and gender meet : racism, hate crimes, and pornography / Helen Zia
  • 57. Homophobia in straight men / Terry A. Kupers
  • 58. Stopping sexual harassment : a challenge for community education / Robert L. Allen
  • 59. How safe is America? / Desiree Taylor
  • 60. Wielding masculinity inside Abu Ghraib : making feminist sense of an American military scandal / Cynthia Enloe
  • 61. Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity / Stephen J. Ducat
  • 62. Masculinities of men's health : moving toward post-superman era prevention / Don Sabo
  • 63. Health, social class and African-American women / Evelyn L. Barbee and Marilyn Little
  • 64. Reproductive issues are essential survival issues for the Asian-American communities / Connie S. Chan
  • 65. Why the precautionary principle? : a meditation on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the breasts of mothers / Sandra Steingraber
  • 66. Does silencio = muerte? : notes on translating the AIDS epidemic / Rafael Campo
  • 67. To be poor and transgender / Kai Wright
  • 68. Statement of principles / National Organization for Men Against Sexism
  • 69. The blow up ... a clash of realities / Gloria E. Anzaldua
  • 70. American Indian women : at the center of indigenous resistance in contemporary North America / M. Annette Jaimes and Theresa Halsey
  • 71. Toward a new civic leadership : the Africana criminal justice project / Geoff K. Ward and Manning Marable
  • 72. Organizing for peace in Israel : why Israeli women want a peace movement of their own / Gila Svirsky
  • 73. Women's human rights : it's about time! / Rita Arditti.