Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives

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Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives, Seventh Edition, is an interdisciplinary text-reader that provides an introduction to women's and gender studies within a global context by examining the diversity of US women's lives across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender expression, disability, age, and immigration status. Substantial chapter introductions provide statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the reading selections. Each chapter includes reading questions and suggestions for taking action, to help students link what they learn to their own lives and to the world around them. Cover GENDERED LIVES: INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES BRIEF CONTENTS CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART 1: Women’s and Gender Studies: Knowing and Understanding CHAPTER 1: Untangling the “F”-word FEMINIST MOVEMENTS AND FRAMEWORKS Native American Antecedents Legal Equality for Women Resisting Interlocking Systems of Oppression Queer and Trans Feminisms THE FOCUS OF WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES Myth 1: Women’s and Gender Studies Is Ideological Myth 2: Women’s and Gender Studies Is Narrow Myth 3: Women’s and Gender Studies Is a White, Middle-Class, Western Thing Men Doing Feminism COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 1. A Matrix of Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance 2. From the Personal to the Global 3. Linking the Head, Heart, and Hands 4. A Secure and Sustainable Future THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 1. PAULA GUNN ALLEN, “WHO IS YOUR MOTHER? RED ROOTS OF WHITE FEMINISM” (1986) 2. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, “DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS” (1848) 3. COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE, “A BLACK FEMINIST STATEMENT” (1977) 4. MATHANGI SUBRAMANIAN, “THE BROWN GIRL’S GUIDE TO LABELS” (2010) 5. *LOAN TRAN, “DOES GENDER MATTER? NOTES TOWARD GENDER LIBERATION” (2018) CHAPTER 2: Creating Knowledge: Integrative Frameworks for Understanding WHAT IS A THEORY? CREATING KNOWLEDGE: EPISTEMOLOGIES, VALUES, AND METHODS Dominant Perspectives Critiques of Dominant Perspectives The Role of Values SOCIALLY LIVED THEORIZING Standpoint Theory Challenges to Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory Purposes of Socially Lived Theorizing MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS AND THE CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE The Stories Behind the Headlines Whose Knowledge? Reading Media Texts QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 6. *ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING, “THE FIVE SEXES, REVISITED” (2000) 7. ALLAN G. JOHNSON, “PATRIARCHY, THE SYSTEM: AN IT, NOT A HE, A THEM, OR AN US” (1997) 8. PATRICIA HILL COLLINS, EXCERPT FROM “BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: KNOWLEDGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF EMPOWERMENT” (1990) 9. NADINE NABER, “DECOLONIZING CULTURE: BEYOND ORIENTALIST AND ANTI-ORIENTALIST FEMINISMS” (2010) 10. *WHITNEY POW, “THAT’S NOT WHO I AM: CALLING OUT AND CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES OF ASIAN AMERICANS” (2012) CHAPTER 3: Identities and Social Locations BEING MYSELF: THE MICRO LEVEL COMMUNITY RECOGNITION AND EXPECTATIONS: THE MESO LEVEL SOCIAL CATEGORIES AND STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES: MACRO AND GLOBAL LEVELS Defining Gender Identities Maintaining Systems of Structural Inequality Colonization, Immigration, and the US Landscape of Race and Class MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL LOCATIONS QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 11. DOROTHY ALLISON, “A QUESTION OF CLASS” (1993) 12. MELANIE KAYE/KANTROWITZ, “JEWS, CLASS, COLOR, AND THE COST OF WHITENESS” (1992) 13. *ELI CLARE, “BODY SHAME, BODY PRIDE: LESSONS FROM THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT” (2013) 14. *MARIKO UECHI. “BETWEEN BELONGING: A CULTURE OF HOME” (2018) 15. JULIA ALVAREZ, EXCERPT FROM “ONCE UPON A QUINCEÑERA: COMING OF AGE IN THE USA” (2007) PART II: Our Bodies, Ourselves CHAPTER 4: Sexuality WHAT DOES SEXUALITY MEAN TO YOU? HETEROPATRIARCHY PUSHES HETEROSEX . . . . . . and Racist, Ageist, Ableist Stereotypes Objectification and Double Standards Media Representations QUEERING SEXUALITY “Queer” as a Catch-All? Queering Economies and Nation-States DEFINING SEXUAL FREEDOM Radical Heterosexuality Eroticizing Consent The Erotic as Power QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 16. *DAISY HERNÁNDEZ, “EVEN IF I KISS A WOMAN” (2014) 17. *ARIANE CRUZ, “(MIS)PLAYING BLACKNESS: RENDERING BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY IN THE MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL” (2015) 18. *JENNIFER KEISHIN ARMSTRONG, “HOW SEX AND THE CITY HOLDS UP IN THE #METOO ERA” (2018) 19. *V. SPIKE PETERSON, “THE INTENDED AND UNINTENDED QUEERING OF STATES/NATIONS” (2013) 20. AUDRE LORDE, “USES OF THE EROTIC: THE EROTIC AS POWER” (1984) CHAPTER 5: Bodies, Health, and Wellness HUMAN EMBODIMENT Body Ideals and Beauty Standards Body Acceptance REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Focusing on Fertility Reproductive Justice: An Intersectional Framework HEALTH AND WELLNESS Health Disparities Mental and Emotional Health Aging and Health QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 21. *LINDA TRINH V¯O, “TRANSNATIONAL BEAUTY CIRCUITS: ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN, TECHNOLOGY, AND CIRCLE CONTACT LENSES” (2016) 22. *MARGITTE KRISTJANSSON, “FASHION’S ‘FORGOTTEN WOMAN’: HOW FAT BODIES QUEER FASHION AND CONSUMPTION” (2014) 23. *LORETTA J. ROSS, “UNDERSTANDING REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE” (2011) 24. *ALISON KAFER, “DEBATING FEMINIST FUTURES: SLIPPERY SLOPES, CULTURAL ANXIETY, AND THE CASE OF THE DEAF LESBIANS” (2013) 25. BELL HOOKS, “LIVING TO LOVE” (1993) CHAPTER 6: Sexualized Violence WHAT COUNTS AS SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE? THE INCIDENCE OF SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE Intimate Partner Violence Rape and Sexual Assault Effects of Gender Expression, Race, Class, Nation, Sexuality, and Disability Gender-Based State Violence EXPLAINING SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE Explanations Focused on Gender Sexualized Violence Is Not Only About Gender ENDING SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE Providing Support for Victims/Survivors Public and Professional Education The Importance of a Political Movement Contradictions in Seeking State Support to End Gender-Based Violence SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 26. AURORA LEVINS MORALES, “RADICAL PLEASURE: SEX AND THE END OF VICTIMHOOD” (1998) 27. *ALLEEN BROWN, “INDIGENOUS WOMEN HAVE BEEN DISAPPEARING FOR GENERATIONS: POLITICIANS ARE FINALLY STARTING TO NOTICE” (2018) 28. *NICOLA HENRY AND ANASTASIA POWELL, “TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE” (2018) 29. *JONATHAN GROVE, “ENGAGING MEN AGAINST VIOLENCE” (2018) 30. RITA LAURA SEGATO, “TERRITORY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND CRIMES OF THE SECOND STATE: THE WRITING ON THE BODY OF MURDERED WOMEN” (2010) PART III: Home and Work in a Globalizing World CHAPTER 7: Making a Home, Making a Living RELATIONSHIPS, HOME, AND FAMILY Partnership and Marriage The Ideal Nuclear Family GENDER AND WORK BALANCING HOME AND WORK The Second Shift Caring for Children Flextime, Part-Time, and Home Working GENDER AND ECONOMIC SECURITY Education and Job Opportunities Organized Labor and Collective Action Working and Poor Pensions, Disability Payments, and Welfare Understanding Class Inequalities RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 31. *CLAIRE CAIN MILLER, “THE COSTS OF MOTHERHOOD ARE RISING, AND CATCHING WOMEN OFF GUARD (2018) 32. *SARA LOMAX-REESE, “BLACK MOTHER/SONS” (2016) 33. *LINDA BURNHAM AND NIK THEODORE, EXCERPT FROM “HOME ECONOMICS: THE INVISIBLE AND UNREGULATED WORLD OF DOMESTIC WORK” (2012) 34. *LINDA STEINER, “GLASSY ARCHITECTURES IN JOURNALISM” (2014) 35. *EMIR ESTRADA AND PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO, “LIVING THE THIRD SHIFT: LATINA ADOLESCENT STREET VENDORS IN LOS ANGELES” (2013) CHAPTER 8: Living in a Globalizing World LOCATIONS, CIRCUITS, AND FLOWS MIGRATIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS Migration Migration Patterns Tourism, Trafficking, and Transnational Adoption and Surrogacy CONSUMPTION: GOODS, INFORMATION, AND POPULAR CULTURE Material Flows Information Flows Cultural Flows GLOBAL FACTORIES AND CARE CHAINS THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM Assumptions and Ideologies Legacies of Colonization TRANSNATIONAL ALLIANCES FOR A SECURE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 36. GLORIA ANZALDÚA, “THE HOMELAND: AZTLÁN/EL OTRO MEXICO” (1987) 37. PUN NGAI, EXCERPT FROM “MADE IN CHINA” (2005) 38. *CAROLIN SCHURR, “THE BABY BUSINESS BOOMS: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION” (2018) 39. *MOIRA BIRSS, “WHEN DEFENDING THE LAND BECOMES A CRIME” (2017) 40. *MARK GRAHAM AND ANASUYA SENGUPTA, “WE’RE ALL CONNECTED NOW, SO WHY IS THE INTERNET SO WHITE AND WESTERN?” (2017) PART IV: Security and Sustainability CHAPTER 9: Gender, Crime, and Criminalization FEMALE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM People in Women’s Prisons Race and Class Disparities Girls in Detention Women Political Prisoners THE NATIONAL CONTEXT: “TOUGH ON CRIME” The War on Drugs Incarceration as a Business CRIMINALIZATION AS A POLITICAL PROCESS Definitions and Justifications Profiling and Surveillance for “National Security” Criminalization of Migration INSIDE/OUTSIDE CONNECTIONS Support for People in Women’s Prisons Prison Reform, Decriminalization, and Abolition QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 41. *SUSAN BURTON AND CARI LYNN, EXCERPTS FROM “BECOMING MS. BURTON” (2017) 42. *JULIA SUDBURY, “FROM WOMEN PRISONERS TO PEOPLE IN WOMEN’S PRISONS: CHALLENGING THE GENDER BINARY IN ANTIPRISON WORK” (2011) 43. *DIALA SHAMAS, “LIVING IN HOUSES WITHOUT WALLS: MUSLIM YOUTH IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11” (2018) 44. *LESLIE A. CAMPOS, “UNEXPECTED BORDERS” (2018) 45. *SPANISH FEDERATION OF FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS, “WALLS AND ENCLOSURES: THIS IS NOT THE EUROPE IN WHICH WE WANT TO LIVE” (2016) CHAPTER 10: Gender, Militarism, War, and Peace WOMEN IN THE US MILITARY Soldier Mothers Women in Combat MILITARISM AS A SYSTEM Militarism, Patriarchy, and Masculinity Militarism and Histories of Colonization Militarization as a Process IMPACTS OF WAR AND MILITARISM Vulnerability and Agency Healing from War REDEFINING SECURITY Women’s Peace Organizing Demilitarization as a Process Demilitarization and Feminist Thinking QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 46. *JULIE PULLEY, “THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MILITARY GENDER INTEGRATION DEBATE” (2016) 47. *ANNIE ISABEL FUKUSHIMA, AYANO GINOZA, MICHIKO HASE, GWYN KIRK, DEBORAH LEE, AND TAEVA SHEFLER, “DISASTER MILITARISM: RETHINKING U.S. RELIEF IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC” (2014) 48. *JANE FREEDMAN, ZEYNEP KIVILCIM, AND NURCAN ÖZGÜR BAKLACIOG˘LU, “GENDER, MIGRATION AND EXILE” (2017) 49. *AMINA MAMA AND MARGO OKAZAWA-REY, “MILITARISM, CONFLICT AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN THE GLOBAL ERA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR WOMEN IN THREE WEST AFRICAN CONTEXTS” (2012) 50. JULIA WARD HOWE, “MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION” (1870) CHAPTER 11: Gender and Environment THE BODY, THE FIRST ENVIRONMENT FOOD AND WATER The Food Industry Food Security Safeguarding Water POPULATION, RESOURCES, AND CLIMATE CHANGE Overpopulation, Overconsumption, or Both? Science, Gender, and Climate Change GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Defining Sustainability Projects and Models for a Sustainable Future Feminist Thinking for a Sustainable Future QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 51. SANDRA STEINGRABER, “ROSE MOON” (2001) 52. BETSY HARTMANN AND ELIZABETH BARAJAS-ROMÁN, “REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, NOT POPULATION CONTROL: BREAKING THE WRONG LINKS AND MAKING THE RIGHT ONES IN THE MOVEMENT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE” (2009) 53. MICHELLE R. LOYD-PAIGE, “THINKING AND EATING AT THE SAME TIME: REFLECTIONS OF A SISTAH VEGAN” (2010) 54. *WHITNEY EULICH, “MONTHS AFTER HURRICANE MARIA, PUERTO RICANS TAKE RECOVERY INTO THEIR OWN HANDS” (2018) 55. *VANDANA SHIVA, “BUILDING WATER DEMOCRACY: PEOPLE’S VICTORY AGAINST COCA-COLA IN PLACHIMADA” (2004) PART V: Activism and Change CHAPTER 12: Creating Change: Theories, Visions, and Actions HOW DOES SOCIAL CHANGE HAPPEN? Using the Head: Theories for Social Change Using the Heart: Visions for Social Change Using the Hands: Action for Social Change Evaluating Activism, Refining Theory IDENTITIES AND IDENTITY-BASED POLITICS ELECTORAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE Running for Office Gendered Voting Patterns ALLIANCES FOR CHALLENGING TIMES Some Principles for Alliance Building Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Alliances Transnational Women’s Organizing Next Steps for Feminist Movements QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB TAKING ACTION READINGS 56. ABRA FORTUNE CHERNIK, “THE BODY POLITIC” (1995) 57. *DEBORAH LEE, “FAITH AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE” (2018) 58. *PATRICIA ST. ONGE, “TWO PEOPLES, ONE FIRE” (2016) 59. *LOUISE BURKE, “THE #METOO SHOCKWAVE: HOW THE MOVEMENT HAS REVERBERATED AROUND THE WORLD” (2018) 60. *ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT, CENTER FOR WOMEN’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP, AND AFRICAN WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, “FEMINIST PROPOSITIONS FOR A JUST ECONOMY: TIME FOR CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS” (2016) GLOSSARY REFERENCES NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHORS