Women A Feminist Perspective

PART I BODY POLITICS Carole J. ShefField, Sexual Terrorism / Susan Ehrlich Martin, Sexual Harassment: The Link Joining Gender StratiFication, Sexuality, and Women's Economic Status / Nancy Felipe Russo and Jody D. Horn, Unwanted Pregnancy and Its Resolution: Options, Implications / Barbara Katz Rothman and Mary Beth Caschetta, Treating Health: Women and Medicine / Nancy Henley and Jo Freeman, The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior PART II. RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY AND THE LIFE CYCLE Naomi Gerstel and Harriet Engel Gross, Gender and Families in the United States: The Reality of Economic Dependence / Hilary M. Lips, Gender-Role Socialization: Lessons in Femininity / Janice M. Steil, Supermoms and Second Shifts: Marital Inequality in the 1990s / Michele Hoffnung, Motherhood: Contemporary Conict for Women / Laurie Russell Hatch, Gray Clouds and Silver Linings: Women's Resources in Later Life PART III. WORK AND OCCUPATIONS Nancy M. Thornborrow and Marianne B. Sheldon, Women in the Labor Force / Mary Frank Fox, Women and Higher Education: Gender Differences in the Status of Students and Scholars / Brigid O'Farrell, Women in Blue-Collar Occupations: Traditional and Nontraditional / Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Roslyn L. Felberg, Clerical Work: The Female Occupation / Debra Renee Kaufman, Professional Women: How Real Are the Recent Gains? PART IV. WORDS AND IMAGES Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler, Beauty is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body / Gloria Steinem, Sex, Lies, and Advertising / Karen L. Adams and Norma C. Ware, Sexism and the English Language: The Linguistic Implications of Being a Woman / Gloria Cowan, Pornography: Conict Among Feminists PART V. INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL CONTROL Jo Freeman, The Revolution for Women in Law and Public Policy / Ruth B. Mandel, A Generation of Change for Women in Politics / Martha J. Reineke, Out of Order: A Critical Perspective on Women in Religion / Rose Weitz, What Price Independence? Social Reactions to Lesbians, Spinsters, Widows, and Nuns / Alice Abel Kemp, Poverty and Welfare for Women / Stephanie Golden, Lady Versus Low Creature: Old Roots of Current Attitudes Toward Homeless Women PART VI. FEMINISM IN PERSPECTIVE Marlene LeGates, Feminists Before Feminism: Origins and Varieties of Women's Protest in Europe and North America Before the Twentieth Century / Jo Freeman, From Suffrage to Women's Liberation: Feminism in Twentieth-Century America / Carol Wayne White, Toward an Afro-American Feminism / Susan E. Marshall, Keep Us on the Pedestal: Women Against Feminism in Twentieth Century America / Michael S. Kimmel, Misogynists, Masculinist Mentors, and Male Supports: Men's Responses to Feminism PART VII. FEMINISM AND DIVERSITY Elizabeth M. Almquist, The Experiences of Minority Women in the United States: Intersections of Race, Gender and Class / Pauline Terrelonge, Feminist Consciousness and Black Women / Denise A. Segura and Beatriz M. Pesquera, Chicana Feminisms: Their Political Context and Contemporary Expressions / Ilsa M. Glazer, A Cloak of Many Colors: Jewish Feminism and Feminist Jews in America / Lisa Ransdell, Lesbian Feminism and the Feminist Movement Name Index Subject IndexFreeman, Jo is the author of 'Women A Feminist Perspective', published 1994 under ISBN 9781559341110 and ISBN 1559341114.