| Edition |
9th ed. |
| Description |
xi, 556 pages, 3 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
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Feminism -- United States.
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Women -- United States.
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Sex role -- United States.
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Women -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Feminismus. (DE-588)4222126-2
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Frau. (DE-588)4018202-2
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Geschlechterrolle. (DE-588)4071776-8
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Sozialer Wandel. (DE-588)4077587-2
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Feminismus.
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Frau.
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Geschlechterrolle.
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Sozialer Wandel.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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| Added Author |
Taylor, Verta A.
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Rupp, Leila J., 1950-
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Whittier, Nancy, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9780078026621 (alkaline paper) |
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0078026628 (alkaline paper) |
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