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Feminist Frontiers is intended for use in courses on women’s studies, gender studies, feminist studies, or the sociology of gender. It offers a general framework for analyzing women, society, and culture; its 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. New selections in the tenth edition emphasize the diversity of women’s experiences and the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability.

New to This Edition:
Thirty-five new selections emphasize the diversity of women’s experiences and promote understanding of how gender inequality intersects with other systems of oppression, including race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability Highlights contemporary issues including “gender of Trumpism,” climate change, mass shootings, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement to address issues students face on a daily basisInclusion of blogs and online writings emphasizes the impact of social media on society including Facebook, Twitter, and online gaming

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Editors

Part I: Introduction
Section One: Diversity and Difference

Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's HouseAudre Lorde

We Hold Our Hands Up: On Indigenous Women’s Love and ResistanceDory Nason

Naming: Freaks and QueersEli Clare

Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives

"Night To His Day": The Social Construction of Gender Judith Lorber

The Medical Construction of GenderSuzanne Kessler

Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman QuestionSusan Stryker

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of ColorKimberlé Crenshaw

Part II: Gender, Culture, and Socialization
Section Three: Represenation, Language, and Culture

Gender Stereotyping in the English LanguageLaurel Richardson

Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: Grassroots Activism and the Dove ‘Real Beauty’ CampaignJosée Johnston and Judy Taylor

Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your BeautyDebra Gimlin

Hair Still MattersIngrid Banks

Look @ Me 2.0: Self-Sexualization in Facebook Photographs, Body Surveillance and Body ImageLindsay Ruckel and Melanie Hill

Pregnancy, Then it’s “Back to Business:” Beyoncé, Black Femininity, and the Politics of a Post-Feminist Gender RegimeDayna Chatman

Section Four: Socialization

Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated FilmsKarin Martin and Emily Kazyak

“I Wanted a Soul Mate:” Gendered Anticipation and Frameworks of Accountability in Parents’ Preferences for Sons and DaughtersEmily W. Kane

The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant ChildElizabeth Rahilly

“This is Your Job Now:” Latina Mothers and Daughters and Family WorkLorena Garcia

Part III: Social Organization of Gender
Section Five: Work and the Economy

Feminism and the Labor Movement: A Century of Collaboration and ConflictEileen Boris and Annelise Orleck

Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men’s Experience with Women’s WorkAdia Harvey Wingfield

The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail SalonsMiliann Kang

Maid in L.A.Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech IndustryLauren Alfrey and France Winddance Twine

Section Six: Families

Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold WarCarolyn Herbst Lewis

Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family ChangeKathleen 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 WomenMignon Moore

Intensive Mothering on the Homefront: An Analysis of Army MothersKimberly Murray

A Reproductive Justice Approach to Safe Haven Baby LawsLaury Oaks

Section Seven: Sexualities

Adolescent Girls' Sexuality: the more it changes, the more it stays the sameDeborah L. Tolman

Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?Elizabeth Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England

Straight Girls KissingLeila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor

Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices, and CulturesJane Ward

The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men: Negotiating Sexuality Through GenderKristin 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 ShipsSimone Weil Davis

The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic: Rethinking Reproductive Frameworks through the South Dakota Abortion StoryCarly Thomsen

Navigating Public Spaces: Gender, Race, and Body PrivilegeSamantha Kwan

Conquering the Black Girls BluesLani Valencia Jones and Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Section Nine: Violence

Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls’ ViolenceLaurie Schaffner

How You Bully a Girl: Sexual Drama and the Negotiation of Gendered Sexuality in High SchoolSarah Miller

Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party RapeElizabeth Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney

Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing RapeC.J. Pascoe and Jocelyn A. Hollander

“I Can Defend Myself:” Women’s Strategies for Coping with Harassment While Gaming OnlineAmanda C. Cote

Part IV: Social Change
Section Ten: Global Politics and the State

Who is a Real Man? The Gender of TrumpismC.J. Pascoe

From the Third World to the “Third World Within:” Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization Grace Chang

Intersecting Identities and Global Climate ChangeJoane Nagel

Mass Shootings and MasculinityTristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its OthersLila 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 OrganizingZakiya Luna

Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous FeminismAida Hernandez Castillo

The Story of a Slut Walk: Sexuality, Race, and Generational Divisions in Contemporary Feminist ActivismJo Reger

Facebook Feminism: Social Media, Blogs, and New Technologies of Contemporary U.S. FeminismAlison Dahl Crossley

#safetytipsforladies: Feminist Twitter Takedowns of Victim BlamingCarrie Rentschler

A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter MovementAlicia Garza

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Published Jul 05 2019
Format Paperback
Edition 10th
Extent 608
ISBN 9781538108109
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 1 b/w illustration; 10 b/w photos; 10 tables
Dimensions 252 x 204 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Verta Taylor

Verta Taylor is Emerita Distinguished Professor of…

Anthology Editor

Nancy E. Whittier

Anthology Editor

Leila J. Rupp

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