Feminist Frontiers

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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. Cover Contents Preface About the Editors Part 1: Introduction Section One: Diversity and Difference 1: Living a Feminist Life 2: White Privilege 3: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House 4: We Hold Our Hands Up 5: Naming: Freaks and Queers Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives 6: Night to His Day 7: The Medical Construction of Gender 8: Transgender Feminism 9: Mapping the Margins Part 2: Gender, Culture and Socialization Section Three: Representation, Language and Culture 10: Gender Stereotyping in the English Language 11: Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists 12: Cosmetic Surgery 13: Hair Still Matters 14: Look @ Me 2.0 15: Pregnancy, Then It's "Back to Business" Section Four: Socialization 16: Hetero-Romantic Love in G-Rated Films 17: "I wanted a soul mate" 18: The Gender Binary Meets the Gender-Variant Child 19: This is Your Job Now Part 3: Social Organization of Gender Section Five: Work and Economy 20: Feminism and the Labor Movement 21: Racializing the Glass Escalator 22: The Managed Hand 23: Main in LA 24: Gender Fluid Geek Girls Section Six: Family 25: Waking Sleeping Beauty 26: Moral Dilemma, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender 27: Love's Labor's Cost 28: Two Sides of the Same Coin 29: Intensive Mothering on the Home Front 30: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Safe Haven Baby Laws Section Seven: Sexualities 31: Adolescent Girls' Sexuality 32: Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women 33: Straight Girls Kissing 34: Straight Dude Seeks Same 35: The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men Section Eight: Bodies, Health and Reproduction 36: "A Way Outa No Way" 37: Loose Lips Sink Ships 38: The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic 39: Navigating Public Spaces 40: Conquering the Black Girl Blues Section Nine: Violence 41: Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls' Violence 42: "How You Bully a Girl" 43: Sexual Assault on Campus 44: Good Guys Don't Rape 45: "I Can Defend Myself" Part 4: Social Change Section Ten: Global Politics and the State 46: Who is a Real Man? 47: From the Third World to the "Third World Within" 48: Intersecting Identities and Global Climate Change 49: Mass Shooting, Masculinity, and Gun Violence 50: Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Section Eleven: Social Protest and Feminist Movements 51: Punks, Buildaggers, and Welfare Queens 52: From Rights to Justice 53: Zapatismo and the Emergance of Indigenous Feminism 53: The Story of a Slut Walk 55: Facebook Feminism 56: #safetytipsforladies 57: A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement