Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 608
Trim: 8 x 10
978-1-5381-0810-9 • Paperback • July 2019 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
Verta Taylor is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on gender, sexuality, and social movements. She is coauthor with Leila J. Rupp of Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s and Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret;author of Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression; coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism and The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, and author of nearly 150 articles, chapters, and reviews.Professor Taylor received the American Sociological Association’s 2011 Jessie Bernard Award for lifetime contributions to the study of gender, and in 2008 she received the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award for her scholarship on social movements and the Simon and Gagnon Award for her career of scholarship on the study of sexualities. She has also been awarded Sociologists for Women in Society’s Mentoring and Feminist Lecturer Awards.
Nancy Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College, where she teaches classes on gender, sexuality, social movements, and research methods. She is the author of Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence, The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotions, Social Movements, and the State, Feminist Generations, and numerous articles on social movements, gender, and sexual violence, and is coauthor of Statistics for Social Understanding.
Leila J. Rupp is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She coedited Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History,which won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014. She is the author of Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement, and Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945, and coauthor, with Verta Taylor, of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections.
Preface
About the Editors
Part I: Introduction
Section One: Diversity and Difference- Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh- The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Audre Lorde- We Hold Our Hands Up: On Indigenous Women’s Love and Resistance
Dory Nason- Naming: Freaks and Queers
Eli Clare
Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives- "Night To His Day": The Social Construction of Gender
Judith Lorber - The Medical Construction of Gender
Suzanne Kessler- Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question
Susan Stryker- Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Part II: Gender, Culture, and Socialization
Section Three: Represenation, Language, and Culture- Gender Stereotyping in the English Language
Laurel Richardson- Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: Grassroots Activism and the Dove ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign
Josée Johnston and Judy Taylor- Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty
Debra Gimlin- Hair Still Matters
Ingrid Banks- Look @ Me 2.0: Self-Sexualization in Facebook Photographs, Body Surveillance and Body Image
Lindsay Ruckel and Melanie Hill - Pregnancy, Then it’s “Back to Business:” Beyoncé, Black Femininity, and the Politics of a Post-Feminist Gender Regime
Dayna Chatman
Section Four: Socialization- Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films
Karin Martin and Emily Kazyak- “I Wanted a Soul Mate:” Gendered Anticipation and Frameworks of Accountability in Parents’ Preferences for Sons and Daughters
Emily W. Kane - The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child
Elizabeth Rahilly- “This is Your Job Now:” Latina Mothers and Daughters and Family Work
Lorena Garcia
Part III: Social Organization of Gender
Section Five: Work and the Economy- Feminism and the Labor Movement: A Century of Collaboration and Conflict
Eileen Boris and Annelise Orleck- Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experience with Women’s Work
Adia Harvey Wingfield- The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons
Miliann Kang - Maid in L.A.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo- Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry
Lauren Alfrey and France Winddance Twine
Section Six: Families- Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War
Carolyn Herbst Lewis- Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change
Kathleen Gerson- Love’s Labor’s Cost: The Family Life of Migrant Domestic Workers
Rhacel Parreñas- Two Sides of the Same Coin: Revising Studies of Lesbian Sexuality and Family Formation through the Study of Black Women
Mignon Moore- Intensive Mothering on the Homefront: An Analysis of Army Mothers
Kimberly Murray- A Reproductive Justice Approach to Safe Haven Baby Laws
Laury Oaks
Section Seven: Sexualities- Adolescent Girls' Sexuality: the more it changes, the more it stays the same
Deborah L. Tolman- Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?
Elizabeth Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England- Straight Girls Kissing
Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor- Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures
Jane Ward- The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men: Negotiating Sexuality Through Gender
Kristin Schilt and Elroi Windsor
Section Eight: Bodies, Health, and Reproduction- "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women
Becky Wangsgaard Thompson- Loose Lips Sink Ships
Simone Weil Davis- The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic: Rethinking Reproductive Frameworks through the South Dakota Abortion Story
Carly Thomsen- Navigating Public Spaces: Gender, Race, and Body Privilege
Samantha Kwan- Conquering the Black Girls Blues
Lani Valencia Jones and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Section Nine: Violence- Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls’ Violence
Laurie Schaffner- How You Bully a Girl: Sexual Drama and the Negotiation of Gendered Sexuality in High School
Sarah Miller- Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape
Elizabeth Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney- Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape
C.J. Pascoe and Jocelyn A. Hollander- “I Can Defend Myself:” Women’s Strategies for Coping with Harassment While Gaming Online
Amanda C. Cote
Part IV: Social Change
Section Ten: Global Politics and the State- Who is a Real Man? The Gender of Trumpism
C.J. Pascoe- From the Third World to the “Third World Within:” Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization
Grace Chang- Intersecting Identities and Global Climate Change
Joane Nagel- Mass Shootings and Masculinity
Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober- Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
Lila Abu-Lughod
Section Eleven: Social Protest and Feminist Movements - Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?
Cathy Cohen- From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of Reproductive Justice Organizing
Zakiya Luna- Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism
Aida Hernandez Castillo- The Story of a Slut Walk: Sexuality, Race, and Generational Divisions in Contemporary Feminist Activism
Jo Reger- Facebook Feminism: Social Media, Blogs, and New Technologies of Contemporary U.S. Feminism
Alison Dahl Crossley- #safetytipsforladies: Feminist Twitter Takedowns of Victim Blaming
Carrie Rentschler- A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Alicia Garza
Credits
- Section introductions summarize and identify the relationships between readings, providing students with a roadmap to each topic
- A general framework for analyzing women, society, and culture allows students to put theory into practice
- Wide range of interdisciplinary readings offer both contemporary and classic perspectives on women’s lives