Althea Prince, Susan Silva–wayne

Feminisms and Womanisms

A Women's Studies Reader
Herausgeber: Prince, Althea; Silva-Wayne, Susan

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Produktbeschreibung

Brings together theory and practical application, so that feminist discourse interacts as a partner with the lived experience of women's social action. The selections combine classics in feminist thought with work from modern theorists and offer a solid foundation in international feminism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Women's Press of Canada
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 219mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9780889614116
• ISBN-10: 0889614113
• Artikelnr.: 22252707

Autorenporträt

Dr. Althea Prince has taught at York University and the University of Toronto. She is also a fiction writer and essayist. Dr. Susan Silva-Wayne has taught social work at McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Wisconsin. She has 30 years of social work practice with women and families in Canada and the United States. Dr. Silva-Wayne is currently the social work editor at Canadian Scholars' Press and Women's Press. Dr. Susan Silva-Wayne has taught social work at McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Wisconsin. She has 30 years of social work practice with women and families in Canada and the United States. Dr. Silva-Wayne is currently the social work editor at Canadian Scholars' Press and Women's Press.

Inhaltsangabe

* SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
* Meg Luxton, Feminism As a Class Act: Working-Class Feminism and the
Women's Movement in Canada
* Sharon Donna McIvor, Self-Government and Aboriginal Women
* L. Pauline Rankin and Jill Vickers, Women's Movements and State
Feminism: Integrating Diversity into Public Policy
* Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
* Simone de Beauvoir, Myth and Reality
* Betty Friedan, The Crisis in Women's Identity
* Germaine Greer, The Middle-Class Myth of Love and Marriage
* Gloria Steinem, Life between the Lines
* Alice Walker, Womanist: A Letter to the Editor of MS
* bell hooks, Feminism: A Transformational Politic
* Samantha Sacks, Why Are You a Feminist?
* Anne-Marie Kinahan, Women Who Run from the Wolves: Feminist Critique
as Post-Feminism
* Section Two: Diversity
* Anne Fausto-Sterling, The Five Sexes, Revisited
* Ruth Frankenberg, Growing Up White: Feminism, Racism, and the Social
Geography of Childhood
* Yvonne Bobb-Smith, Caribbean Feminism versus Canadian Feminism
* Amita Handa, Modest and Modern: Women as Markers of the Indian Nation
State
* Makeda Silvera, Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the
Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians
* Section Three: Socialization And Gender Roles
* Lois Gould, X--A Fabulous Child's Story
* Naomi Wolf, Nakedness: Pride and Shame
* Andrea O'Reilly, Mothers, Daughters, and Feminism Today: Empowerment,
Agency, Narrative, and Motherline
* Michelle Hammer, How I Almost Killed My Mother in Childbirth
* Margaret Cho, Crush Crash
* Patricia Payette, The Feminist Wife? Notes from a Political
""Engagement""
* Section Four: Identity, Body, And Health
* Kim Anderson, The Construction of a Negative Identity
* Julie Glaser, Eat and Disorder
* Kathleen LeBesco, Fat and Fabulous: Resisting Constructions of Female
Body Ideals
* Mariko Tamaki, Angry Naked Women
* Inga Muscio, Blood and Cunts
* Nancy Graham, Mother Root: Constant Craving
* Carolyn Egan and Linda Gardner, Racism, Women's Health, and
Reproductive Freedom
* Susan Sontag, The Double Standard of Aging
* Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman
* Margaret Cruikshank, Gerastology: A Feminist's View of Gerontology
and Women's Aging
* Section Five: Work
* Jan Borowy, Shelly Gordon, and Gayle Lebans, Are These Clothes Clean?
The Campaign for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers
* Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong, Class Is a Feminist Issue
* Chris Bruckert, The World of the Professional Stripper
* Himani Bannerji, In the Matter of ""X"": Building ""Race"" into
Sexual Harassment
* Section Six: The Classroom
* Linda Briskin, Privileging Agency and Organizing: A New Approach for
Women's Studies
* Viviane Namaste with Georgia Sitara, Inclusive Pedagogy in the
Women's Studies Classroom: Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case
* Jean Bobby Noble, Queer Pedagogies of the Closet: Teaching Ignorances
in the Heteronormative Classroom
* Section Seven: Popular Culture
* Janice Acoose, Discovering the Spark
* Motion (Wendy Brathwaite), Black Woman Rage
* Adrienne Rich, Credo of a Passionate Skeptic
* Margaret Atwood, Review of Diving into the Wreck
* Catharine A. MacKinnon, Not a Moral Issue
* Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
* Angela Davis, Mama's Got the Blues
* Section Eight: Praxis-Social Change
* As told to Janet Silman, All for a Decent House
* Harriet G. Rosenberg, From Trash to Treasure: Housewife Activists and
the Environmental Justice Movement
* Diane Driedger, Emerging from the Shadows: Women with Disabilities
Organize
* Neita Kay Israelite and Karen Swartz, Reformulating the Feminist
Perspective: Giving Voice to Women with Disabilities
* Joanne Cohen, Identity, Community, and Same-Sex Marriage
* Beverly Smith, Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
* Federation des femmes du Quebec 1999, 2000 Good Reasons to March
* Tammy C. Landau, Women's Experiences with Mandatory Charging for Wife
Assault in Ontario, Canada: A Case against the Prosecution
* Cornelia Sollfrank, Women Hackers: A Report from the Mission to
Locate Subversive Women on the Net
* Section Nine: Globalism
* Lee-Anne Broadhead, The Gender Dimension to the Search for Global
Justice
* Naila Kabeer, Gender Equality and Human Development Outcomes:
Enhancing Capabilities
* Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism
* Bibliography, Copyright Acknowledgements