Description: * Indicates New ReadingPrefaceIntroduction: The Framework of This BookThe Focus of Women''s StudiesThe Framework for This Book: Collective Action for aSustainable FutureAn Activist ApproachA Sustainable and Secure FutureThe United States in a Global ContextLinking the Personal and the GlobalA Matrix of Oppression and ResistanceFeminisms: Tangling with the "F" WordMyth 1: Women''s Studies is IdeologicalMyth 2: Women''s Studies is a White, Middle-Class ThingMyth 3: Women''s Studies is Narrowly Concerned with Women''s IssuesScope of the BookPart 1: KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDINGChapter One. Theories and Theorizing: Integrative Frameworks for UnderstandingDefinition of a TheoryTheories, Theorizing, and Ways of KnowingThe Dominant PerspectiveAlternative PerspectivesThe Role of ValuesTheoretical Frameworks for Understanding Women''s Lives"Socially Lived" TheorizingMedia Representations and the Creation of KnowledgeQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action1 Judith Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gender"2 Allan G. Johnson, "Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us"3 Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement"4 Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Defining Genealogies: Feminist Reflections on Being South Asian in North America"5 Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Who Am I If I''m Not My Father''s Daughter?"*6 JeeYeun Lee, "Beyond Bean Counting"*7 Angharad N. Valdivia, "A Latina in the Land of Hollywood"Chapter Two: Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People?Being Myself: The Micro LevelCommunity Recognition, Expectations, and Interactions: The Meso LevelSocial categories, Classifications, and Structural Inequality: Macro and Global LevelsMaintaining Systems of Structural InequalityColonization, Immigration, and the U.S. Landscape of Race and ClassMultiple Identities, Social Location, and ContradictionsQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action8 Frederica Y. Daly, "Perspectives of Native American Women on Race and Gender"9 Dorothy Allison, "A Question of Class"10 Elizabeth Martnez, "A Word about the Great Terminology Question"*11 Shailja Patel, "Shilling Love"12 Joanna Kadi, "Moving from Cultural Appropriation toward Ethical Cultural Connections"13 Mary C. Waters, "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?"14 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, "Jews, Class, Color, and the Cost of Whiteness"Part 2: OUR BODIES, OURSELVESChapter Three: Women''s BodiesBody Image and the Beauty IdealThe Beauty IdealThe Beauty BusinessCommodification and Co-optionWhites Only? Forever Young? Always Able?Resisting Beauty StereotypesFeminist Theorizing about Body Image and Beauty IdealsBody PoliticsQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action15 Abra Fortune Chernik, "The Body Politic"16 Toni Morrison, "The Coming of Maureen Peal"17 Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Story of My Body"*18 Lani Ka''ahumanu, "My Body is a Map of My Life"*19 Cheryl Marie Wade, "I Am Not One of the"20 Donna Walton, "What''s a Leg Got to Do with It?"*21 Lillian Rubin, "Tangled Lives"Chapter Four: Women''s SexualityStereotypes, Contradictions, and Double StandardsWhat Is Women''s Autonomous Sexuality?Challenging BinariesTheorizing SexualityThe Erotic as PowerActivism and SexualityQuestions for ReflectionFinding Out More on the WebTaking Action22 Sandra Cisneros, "Guadalupe the Sex Goddess"23 Naomi Wolf, "Radical Heterosexuality"*24 Aurora Levins Morales, "Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood"*25 June Jordan, "A New Politics of Sexuality"26 Surina Khan, "The All-American Queer Pakistani Girl"27 Leslie Feinberg, "We Are All Works in Progress"28 Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power"Chapter Five: Women''s HealthReproductive HealthControlling FertilityMedicalization of Reproductive LifeWomen and IllnessEffects of Gender, Race, and ClassMental and Emotional HealthHealth and AgingThe Medical IndustryPaying for Medical CareOther Barriers and Biases in Medical Services and ResearchHealth as WellnessRequirements

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