PREFACE

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Section One: DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE

1. Being the Bridge: A Solitary Black Woman’s Position in the Women’s Studies Classroom as a Feminist Student and Professor | Kimberly Springer

2. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy McIntosh

3. Where I Come From Is Like This | Paula Gunn Allen

4. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House | Audre Lorde

5. The Mountain | Eli Clare

Section Two: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

6. "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender | Judith Lorber

7. The Medical Construction of Gender | Suzanne Kessler

8. Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question | Susan Stryker

9. Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism | Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill

10. Gender in the Borderlands | Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella

11. Masculinities and Globalization | R.W. Connell

PART TWO: GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIALIZATION

Section Three: REPRESENTATION, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE

12. Gender Stereotyping in the English Language | Laurel Richardson

13. Sexing the Internet: Reflections on the Role of Identification in Online Communities | danah boyd

14. Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: A Comparative Study of Grassroots Activism and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign | Josée Johnston and Judy Taylor

15. Cosmetic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty | Debra L. Gimlin

16. Hair Still Matters | Ingrid Banks

Section Four: SOCIALIZATION

17. Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films | Karin A. Martin and Emily Kazyak

18. Pretty Baby | Catherine Newman

19. Girls and Boys Together...but Mostly Apart: Gender Arrangements in Elementary Schools | Barrie Thorne

20. “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do:” Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives | Yen Le Espiritu

PART THREE: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER

Section Five: WORK

21. Sex Segregation in the U.S. Labor Force | Christine E. Bose and Rachel Bridges Whaley

22. Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time, Year-Round Workers by Education, Race, and Hispanic Origin, 2009 | Nancy Whittier

23. The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons | Miliann Kang

24. Maid in L.A. | Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

25. Organizing Home Care | Jennifer Klein and Eileen Boris

Section Six: FAMILIES

26. Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality During the Cold War | Carolyn Herbst Lewis

27. What if Marriage is Bad for Us? | Laurie Essig and Lynn Owens

28. Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change | Kathleen Gerson

29. For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market | Hung Cam Thai

Section Seven: SEXUALITIES

30. Doing Desire: Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality | Deborah L. Tolman

31. Shopping for Love: Online Dating and the Making of a Cyber Culture of Romance | Sophia DeMasi

32. Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? | Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England

33. Straight Girls Kissing | Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor

34. Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: “Gender Normals,” Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality | Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook

Section Eight: BODIES

35. The Bare Bones of Sex: Part I—Sex and Gender | Anne Fausto-Sterling

36. "A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems Among African-American, Latina, and White Women | Becky Wangsgaard Thompson

37. Loose Lips Sink Ships | Simone Weil Davis

38. Google Babies: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy | France Winddance Twine

39. Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice | Andrea Smith

Section Nine: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

40. Violence Against Girls Provokes Girls’ Violence: From Private Injury to Public Harm | Laurie Schaffner

41. “My Strength Is Not for Hurting": Men’s Anti-Rape Websites and Their Construction of Masculinity and Male Sexuality | N. Tatiana Masters

42. Fraternities and Rape on Campus | Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer

43. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color | Kimberlé Crenshaw

PART FOUR: SOCIAL CHANGE

Section Ten: GLOBAL POLITICS AND THE STATE

44. Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women’s Resistance | Karen McCormack

45. From the Third World to the “Third World Within”: Asian Women Workers Fighting Globalization | Grace Chang

46. Gendered Selves and Identities of Information Technology Professionals in Global Software Organizations in India | Marisa D’Mello

47. Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives | Gwyn Kirk

48. Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others | Lila Abu-Lughod

Section Eleven: SOCIAL PROTEST AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS

49. Forever Feminism: The Persistence of the U.S. Women's Movement, 1960-2011 | Alison Dahl Crossley, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak

50. Feminists or “Postfeminists”? Young Women’s Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gender Relations | Pamela Aronson

51. Young Women, Late Modern Politics, and the Participatory Possibilities of Online Cultures | Anita Harris

52. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? | Cathy J. Cohen

53. We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: Young Black Feminists Take Their Research and Activism Online | Moya Bailey and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

54. Transform The World: What You Can Do with a Degree in Women’s Studies | Nikki Ayanna Stewart

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS