Living With Contradictions: Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics

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This book explores some of the moral and public policy issues that divide Western, especially North American, feminists as the twentieth century ends and the twenty-first century begins. It represents an in-house discussion among feminists and their social ethics. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Credits Introduction:Living with Contradictions Part One: Equality Introduction Sexual Differenceand Sexual Equality Reconstructing Sexual Equality Toward Feminist Jurisprudence Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics Part Two: Women Working Introduction Section A:Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth Reverse Discriminationas Unjustified Fairness, Meritocracy, andReverse Discrimination The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts An Argument AgainstComparable Worth Some Implicationsof Comparable Worth Section B: Sex Work Prostitution A Most Useful Tool What's Wrong with Prostitution? Stripper Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights World Charter and World Whores' Congress Statements Part Three: Marketing Feminity Introduction Section A: Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture Why Pornography Matters to Feminists Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation Racism in Pornography and the Women's Movement Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different Ways of Seeing Section B: Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty What's Wrong with Being a Sex Object? Bibo The Unadorned Feminist Gynocide:Chinese Footbinding "Do SomethingAbout Your Weight" Hunger Skin Deep Marieme The Myth of the Perfect Body Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self Part Four: Women's Fertility Inidvidual Choices And Social Constraints Introduction Section A: Abortion Deregulating Abortion Women and Children First? Abortion:On Public and Private Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide Parental Consent Laws: Are They a "Reasonable Compromise"? Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion A Reproductive Rights Agenda for the 1990s The Global Politics of Abortion Prenatal and Preconception Sex Choice Technologies: A Path to Femicide? Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens Section B: Procreative Technology and Procreative Freedom The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology Reproductive Rights and Wrongs Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: A Reproductive Rights Analysis Informed Consent": The Myth of Voluntarism Babies, Heroic Experts, and a Poisoned Earth Access to In Vitro Fertilization: Costs, Care, and Consent Part Five: Family Values Introduction Section A: Contract Child Production Inside the Surrogate Industry Reproductive Freedom and Women's Freedom: Surrogacy and Autonomy Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context Children by Donor Insemination: A New Choice for Lesbians The Facts of Fatherhood Section B: Valuing Alternative Families The Politics of Childlessness When Women and Men Mother The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters A Lesbian Family Black Women and Motherhood The Che-Lumumba School: Creating a Revolutionary Family Community Friends as Family:No One Said It Would Be Easy Part Six: The Personal as Political Introduction Section A: Sexual Practice The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Scratching the Surface: Some Noteson Barriers to Women and Loving Virgin Women Heterosexuality and Choice Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality Is Not Enough Beyond Bisexual Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation Feminist Ejaculations Section B: Consuming Animals Dismantling Oppression: An Analysis of the Connection Between Women and Animals The Sexual Politics of Meat Feminism and Vegetarianism Hunting: A Woman's Perspective Shots in the Dark Some Doubts About Fur Coats Part Seven: Feminists Changing the World Introduction Section A: Militarism The Protected, the Protector, the Def ender The Army Will Make a "Man" Out of You "Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick" Surprise! Rape in the Army Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence Greenham Common and All That A Radical Feminist View Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics "They Won't Take Me Alive" We Speak for the Planet Section B: Environmentalism Taking Empirical Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War Against the Natural World Development, Ecology, and Women Conversations with Gaia Searching for Common Ground: Ecof eminism and Bioregionalism Women, Home, and Community: The Struggle in an Urban Environment Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott Stealing the Planet Reproductive Choices: The Ecological Dimension Women, Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach About the Book and Editor