| Description |
xxii, 576 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: I. Women's Bodies in Science and Culture -- Introductory Essay -- Section 1: Sex Differences Across Cultures -- A: Nelly Oudshoorn, “Sex and the Body” -- B: Emily Martin, “Egg and the Sperm,” -- C: Carol Laderman, “A Welcoming Soil: Islamic Humoralism” -- D: Charlotte Furth, “Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China” -- E: Carole S. Vance, “Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 2 : The Rise of Western Science -- A: Linda Gordon, “Magic” -- B: Sheila Rowbotham, “Feminist Approaches to Technology” -- C: Anne Fausto-Sterling. “The Biological Connection” -- D: Stephen Jay Gould, “Women's Brains” -- E: Udo Schuklenk et al, “The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 3: The Making of Race, Sex, and Empire -- A: Ian F. Haney López, “The Social Construction of Race” -- B: Linda Gordon, “Malthusianism” -- C: Anna Davin, “Imperialism and Motherhood” -- D: Frank Dikkoter, “Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics” -- E: Evelynn M. Hammonds, “New Technologies of Race” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 4: Medicine in an Historical Perspective -- A: Nongenile Masithatu Zenani, “When a Doctor is Called, She Must Go” -- B: Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English, “Exorcising the Midwives” -- C: David Arnold, “Women and Medicine” -- D: Ben Barker-Benfield, “Sexual Surgery in Late-Nineteenth-Century America” -- E: Rogaia Abusharaf, “Unmasking Tradition” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 5: Population Control and Reproductive Rights: Technology and Power -- A: Susan Davis, “Contested Terrain: The Historical Struggle for Fertility Control” -- B: Angela Davis, “Reproductive Rights” -- C: Soheir Morsy, “Biotechnology and the Taming of Women's Bodies” -- D: Betsey Hartmann, “Family Matters” -- E: Committee on Women, Population and the Environment, “Call for a New Approach” -- F: Debra Harry, “The Human Genome Diversity Project: Implications for Indigenous Peoples” -- G: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 6: Strategizing Health Education -- A: Maureen Larkin, “Global Aspects of Health and Health Policy in Third World Countries” -- B: Judy Norsigian, “The Women's Health Movement in the United States” -- C: Katheryn Carovano, “More Than Mothers and Whores: Redefining the AIDS Prevention Needs of Women” -- D: National Latina Health Organization, “Norplant Information Sheet” -- E: Nadia Farah, “The Egyptian Women's Health Book Collective” -- F: Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula, “Reproductive Health” -- G: Reflecting on the Section -- II. Gendered Identities: Individuals, Communities, Nations, Worlds -- Introductory Essay -- Section 1: Modern Nations and the Individual in the West -- A: Judith Squires, “Public and Private” -- B: Mary Wollestonecraft, “From A Vindication of the Rights of Women” -- C: Jan Jindy Pettman, “Women and Citizenship” -- D: Patricia J. Williams, “Owning the Self in a Disowned World” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 2: Gender and the Rise of the Modern State -- A: Jan Jindy Pettman, “Women, Gender, and the State” -- B: Jeffrey Weeks, “Power and the State” -- C: Margot Badran, “Competing Agenda: Feminists, Islam and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt” -- D: Donna Guy, “'White Slavery,' Citizenship, and Nationality in Argentina” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 3: New Social Movements and Identity Politics -- A: Kathryn Woodward, “Concepts of Identity and Difference” -- B: Alexandra Kollontai, “Feminism and the Question of Class” -- C: Kimberle; Crenshaw, “Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color” -- D: Patricia Zavella, “Reflections on Diversity among Chicanas” -- E: Lisa Duggan, “Making It Perfectly Queer” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 4: Communities and Nations -- A: Peter Burke, “We, the People” -- B: Cynthia Enloe, “Nationalism and Masculinity” -- C: Hagiwara Hiroko, “Women of Conformity: The Work of Shimada Yoshiko” -- D: Kathleen M. Blee, “The First Ku Klux Klan” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 5: Feminist Organizing Across Borders -- A: Leila J. Rupp, “The International First Wave” -- B: Crystal Eastman, “A Program for Voting Women” -- C: Mamphele Ramphele, “Whither Feminism?” -- D: Farida Shaheed, “Controlled or Autonomous: Identity and the Experience of the Network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws” -- E: Lepa Mladjenovic and Vera Litricin, “Belgrade Feminists 1992: Separation, Guilt, and Identity Crisis” -- F: Lina Abu-Habib, “Welfare, Rights, and the Disability Movement” -- G. Reflecting on the Section -- |
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III. Representations, Cultures, Media and Markets -- Introductory Essay -- Section 1: Ways of Seeing: Representational Practices -- A: John Berger, Excerpts from Ways of Seeing -- B: Catherine King, “Making Things Mean: Cultural Representation in Objects” -- C: Rozsika Parker, “Feminist Art Practices” -- D: Jane Blocker, “Where is Ana Mendieta?” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 2: Feminist Interventions in Art and Media -- A: Judith Fryer Davidov, “Prologue” -- B: Mica Nava, “Karen Alexander: Video Worker” -- C: Andrea Weiss, “Female Pleasures and Perversions in the Silent and Early Sound Cinema” -- D: Jianying Zha, “Yearnings” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 3: Gender and Literacy: The Rise of Print and Media Cultures -- A: Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen, “The Bribe of Frankenstein” -- B: Rassundari Devi, “The Sixth Composition” -- C: Pat Dean, “Literacy: Liberation or Lip Service?” -- D: M.S. Mlahleki, “Literacy: No Panacea for Women's Problems” -- E: William Wresch, “World Media” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 4: Representing Women In Colonial Contexts -- A: Judith Williamson, “Woman is an Island: Femininity and Colonization” -- B: Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. Excerpts from Reading National Geographic -- C: Marnia Lazreg, “Feminism and Difference” -- D: Sarah Graham-Brown, “Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 5: Consumer Culture and the Business of Advertising -- A: Robert Bocock, “Gender and Consumption” -- B: Elaine S. Abelson, “Urban Women and the Emergence of Shopping” -- C: Jennifer Scanlon, Excerpt from Inarticulate Longings -- D: Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, “The Gay Marketing Moment” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 6: Consumer Beauty Culture: Commodifying the Body -- A: Rosalind Coward, “The Body Beautiful” -- B: Nancy Worcester, “Nourishing Ourselves” -- C: Roland Marchand, “Grotesque Moderne” -- D: Allison Samuels, “Black Beauty's New Face” -- E: Celestine Bohlen, “Italians Contemplate Beauty in a Caribbean Brow” -- F: Barry Bearak, “Ugliness in India Over Miss World” -- G: Rone Tempest, “Barbie and the World Economy” -- H: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 7: Cyberculture -- A: Anne Balsamo, “Feminism for the Incurably Informed” -- B: Panos Media Briefing #16, “The Internet and the South: Superhighway or Dirt-Track?” -- C: Fatma Alloo, “Using Information Technology as a Mobilizing Force: The Case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association” -- D: Reflecting on the Section -- IV. Gendering Globalization and Displacement -- Introductory Essay -- Section 1: Travel and Tourism -- A: Cynthia Enloe, “On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism” -- B: Mary Seacole, “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” -- C: Sylvia M. Jacobs, “Give a Thought to Africa: Black Women Missionaries in Southern Africa” -- D: Sylvia Chant, “Female Employment in Puerto Vallarta: A Case Study” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 2: Forced Relocations and Removals -- A: Lydia Potts, Excerpt from The World Labor Market: A History of Migration -- B: Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Refugee Ship,” -- C: Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallace, Excerpt from Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, -- D: Phil Marfleet, “The Refugee” -- E: Khadija Elmadmad, “The Human Rights of Refugees with Special Reference to Muslim Refugee Women” -- F: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 3: Diasporas -- A: Stuart Hall, “From 'Routes' to Roots” -- B: Claudette Williams, “Gal You Come from Foreign” -- C: Ella Shohat, “Reflections of an Arab Jew” -- D: Joan Gross, David McMurray, and Ted Swedenburg. “Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 4: Women, Work and Immigration -- A: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, “Women and Labor Migration” -- B: Leslie Salzinger, “A Maid by Any Other Name: The Transformation of 'Dirty Work' by Central American Immigrants” -- C: Rigoberta Menchu, “A Maid in the Capital” -- D: Satoko Watenabe, “From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as Autonomous Subjects” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 5: The Gender Politics of Economic Globalization -- A: Augusta Dwyer, “Welcome to the Border” -- B: Human Rights Watch, “Sex Discrimination in the Maquiladoras” -- C: Amber Ault and Eve Sandberg, “Our Policies, Their Consequences: Zambian Women's Lives Under Structural Adjustment” -- D: Faye V. Harrison, “The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica” -- E: Reflecting on the Section -- Section 6: Global Food Production and Consumption -- A: Ecumenical Coalition for Social Justice, “A Whirlwind Tour With Your Guide Tomasito, the Tomato” -- B: Junko Arimur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-547) and index |
| Subject |
Women's studies.
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Sex differences -- Political aspects.
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Women in popular culture.
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Gender identity -- Political aspects.
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| Author |
Kaplan, Caren, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2001042748 |
| ISBN |
007109380X paperback alkaline paper |
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