This cultural history covers four centuries of women in America. Collins examines their experiences, their changing roles, and their full participation in major events in American history. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
Published in 1963, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE is generally agreed to be the book that launched the women's liberation movement. In her groundbreaking study, Betty Friedan writes of her experiences as a wife and mother in the 1950s, and her growing sense of frustration with the idealized postwar concept of the perfect nuclear family--Dad in a business ...
Breathing life into old records and stripping away familiar abstractions, this work reveals the vital--and often unrecognized--roles of women in colonial New England.
Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagates on her popular website, Feministing. com. Covering a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more, ...
This comprehensive reader represents the history, intellectual breadth, and diversity of feminist theory. An historical framework organizes a great wealth of selections, 103 in all, with an entirely new concluding Part VII that covers 1995-2002.
Mexican Americans today are well established in the US, but it was an arduous century-long struggle-and the key participants in this effort have been the women. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, a mining town, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks (including fictional ...
Drawing examples from a variety of countries and cultures, from the past as well as from the present, this inspiring narrative examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past 200 years.
This trenchant analysis of the signification of hair within the African-American community ranges over a wide field--history, politics, beauty, business, fame. Focusing on the experiences of African-American women, the authors discuss a range of styles and strategies in different times and places.
This popular text looks at gender and gender inequality, how sexism affects men and women, and how other variables compound the problem of gender inequality. Available June 2008: All tables and graphs have been updated and are available for download on the instructor's resource center. Contact your local representative for more information. ...
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left ...
Drawing on rich new scholarship, this translation restores Sor Juana's own emphasis and diction. Known as the First Feminist of America, the Mexican nun Sor Juana InA(c)s de la Cruz (1648/51 - 1695) was a brilliant and popular poet, playwright, and essayist whose feminist theory stands as a link between that of Christine de Pizan and Mary ...
These provocative original essays aim to empathize with, encourage and inspire 20-something women. It's a Wonderful Lie will pick up where Quarter-life Crisis left off and will offer perspective and wisdom. Writers will shed a light on what one should and should not expect from what you've been led to believe are the best years of your life. The ...
Women's Lives examines the full range and diversity of women's lives. Composed of 61 readings, this reader is divided into 11 sections: Perspectives on Women's Lives Girlhood & Adolescence Economica and Work Women and the Body Violence Sexuality Mothering and the Family Resistance & Social Change Women, Culture, & Creativity Migration & ...
Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, Kingston offers an entertaining mix of social, sexual, historical, and economic commentary that is bound to stir debate even as it reframes the modern view of both women and marriage.
The most up-to-date global perspective on how women are living today across continents and cultures In this completely revised and updated fourth edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of up-to-the-minute global data on the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, the ...
The cathartic, deeply personal result of Daniell's desire to cope with her mother Melissa's suicide at the age of 60, Fatal Flowers became an instant classic, a roadmap for Southern women in the communal quest to confront and explode the stereotypes that have long repressed and silenced them. Since its original publication two decades ago, this ...
Rose Weitz provides a comprehensive look at women's hair, including a history of attitudes and styles, the cultural implications of beauty salons, the effect of aging on hair and self-esteem, and the impact of the media on women's perceptions of their appearance. As part of her research, Weitz interviewed 74 women, young and old.
In these 10 essays, an African-American woman of the '90s combines a feminist perspective and references from hip-hop culture to navigate the sexual politics of her generation. In forthright language, Morgan confronts her choices and values and opts for dignity, and the pain and difficulty to be found in truthtelling.
Over the past forty years, feminism and gender studies have become global movements and have produced a wide array of empirical findings, bold concepts, and transformative theories. Due to these successes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to comprehend the breadth and complexity of this burgeoning field. Gendered Worlds responds to the ...
The author shows how the nineteenth century's 'cult of domesticity' had invested the home with great importance - as the centre of republican virtue, as the source of religious values and as an area of heady female responsiblities. But this emphasis meant that women were relegated to the domestic sphere, especially when Darwin's 'survival of the ...
Women, Men, and Society provides an analysis of gender inequality that addresses how sexism affects both men and women. The revision of this highly successful text maintains its emphasis on intersecting inequalities and shows how the consequences of gender inequality can be compounded by racism, social class inequality, ageism, and heterosexism. ...
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