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Book SynopsisBrings 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.
Trade ReviewFeminisms and Womanisms is an ideal text for teaching undergraduate courses. Its key strengths are that it includes the foremothers of feminism, has a nice mix of Canadian and international discourse, and covers the central issues underlying the history of feminism - it is thus a good foundation text. It strikes a great balance between the 'must-read' feminist foremothers and Third Wave feminists, while being inclusive of a diverse set of feminist voices, and, importantly, the voice of First Nations feminists. This reader offers students a balanced approach to the study of the history of feminist discourse, theory, and action."" - Dr. Andrea O'Reilly, Director of the Association for Research on Mothering (A.R.M.) and Associate Professor of Women's Studies, York University
Table of Contents
- 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
