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Feminist Frontiers, eleventh edition, is an intersectional, and interdisciplinary introduction to the field of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Featuring both classic readings and cutting-edge feminist writings on urgent and timely topics, it offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing gender, society, and culture. Organized into seven parts, the book opens with the foundations of feminism, including definitions of gender and sex, the concept of privilege, and the complexities of intersectional feminist research. The book then introduces students to key readings in culture and socialization; sex, families, and relationships; bodies; work; violence; and closes with a set of readings on feminist activism. Section-opening introductions introduce key ideas and encourage students to think both critically and self-reflexively before beginning the unit, while introductions to each reading offer further context. Discussion questions foster engaging classroom conversations and encourage readers to apply concepts from the book to their own lives. Combining research articles with shorter essays, blogs, and other online writings written by academics and well-known feminist intellectuals, the book offers multiple levels of entry that meet the needs of students with varied backgrounds and learning styles. The eleventh edition features twenty-nine new readings to showcase all of today's most important issues.


New to this edition:
· Twenty-nine new selections offer both up-to-date research on previously explored topics as well as new inclusions responding to current attacks on women, people of color, and LBGTQ+ communities
· Expanded range of topics in the section “Violence” explore interpersonal violence as well as collective violence faced by many groups today
· Article summaries at the beginning of each chapter, bookended with an increased number of discussion questions, supplement reading and deepen engagement with the material
· Updated seven-part structure offers instructors a compact-yet thorough-organization for a course.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

Section One: Foundations of Feminism
Chapter 1. Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed
Chapter 2. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh
Chapter 3. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Audre Lorde
Chapter 4. Naming: Freaks and Queers
Eli Clare
Chapter 5. Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill
Chapter 6. Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

Section Two: Culture and Socialization
Chapter 7. Contemporary Attacks on Gender in the United States
Judith Butler
Chapter 8. Hair Still Matters
Ingrid Banks
Chapter 9. The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child: Parents' Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance
Elizabeth P. Rahilly
Chapter 10. It's Not Only About the Veil: Gender Beliefs in 6 Muslim-Majority Countries
Maria Charles, Roger Friedland, Janet Afary, and Rujun Yang
Chapter 11. Who is a Real Man? The Gender of Trumpism
C.J. Pascoe
Chapter 12. No Seat at the Party: Mobilizing White Masculinity in the Men's Rights Movement
Emily Carian
Chapter 13. The Misogyny Paradox
Jane Ward

Section Three: Sex, Families, and Relationships
Chapter 14. Adolescent Girls' Sexuality: The More It Changes, the More It Stays the Same
Deborah L. Tolman
Chapter 15. I Have Tasted Freedom: An Intersectional Analysis of College-Going Latinas' Desire for and Meanings of Mobility
Michelle Gomez Parra and Lorena Garcia
Chapter 16. Heterosex on Campus: Laced with Double-Binds
Chiara Elena CooperChapter 17. Learning to be Queer
Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Shaeleya Miller
Chapter 18. TradWives are Thriving in the Post-Dobbs Era
Morgan Jerkins
Chapter 19. Finding Trans Joy in Families We Choose
Laurel Westbrook and stef m. shuster

Section Four: Bodies
Chapter 20. In the Name of Beauty
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Chapter 21. Climax as Work: Heteronormativity, Gender Labor, and the Gender Gap in Orgasms
Nicole Andrejek, Tina Fetner, and Melanie Heath
Chapter 22. Abortion after Dobbs: Defendants, Denials, and Delays
Katrina Kimport
Chapter 23. Overlooked Consequences
Catherine J. Taylor
Chapter 24. Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics
Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook
Chapter 25. Imagined Futures: Feminist, Queer, Crip
Alyson Kafer

Section Five: Work
Chapter 26. How a Job Acquires a Gender
Sarah Thebaud and Laura Doering
Chapter 27. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experience with Women's Work
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Chapter 28. The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons
Miliann Kang
Chapter 29. Maid in L.A.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Chapter 30. Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry
Lauren Alfrey and France Winddance Twine
Chapter 31. 3Q with Jessica Calarco Holding it Together: How Women became America's Safety Net
Alicia M. Walker

Section Six: Violence
Chapter 32. Not a Victim, Not a Survivor
Meghan Warner
Chapter 33. Mass Shootings and Masculinity as a Feminist Issue
Tristan Bridges, Tara Leigh Tober, and Sara Tyberg
Chapter 34. The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity
Victor Rios
Chapter 35. Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response
Tey Meadow
Chapter 36. From Resilience to Survivance
Nicole M. Weiss, Olivia Anderson, Athena Bolton-Steiner, and Melissa I. Walls

Section Seven: Feminist Activism
Chapter 37. Contemporary Feminism and Beyond
Jo Reger
Chapter 38. Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question
Susan Stryker
Chapter 39. When the Black Lives That Matter Are Not Our Own
Catherine Knight Steele
Chapter 40. Intersectional Chicana Feminisms
Fátima Suárez
Chapter 41. The Radical Work of Healing: Interview with Angela and Fania Davis
Sarah van Gelder
Chapter 42. Feminism Online, Abeyance, and the Persistence of Feminism
Alison Dahl Crossley
Chapter 43. We Will Survive
Verta Taylor

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 16 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 11th
Extent 480
ISBN 9798881801496
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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