Acknowledgments x List of Sources xi General Introduction xvii 1 Introduction to Feminist Concepts and Issues 1 By Anne Donadey 1.1 My Name 11 Sandra Cisneros 1.2 The New Pronoun They Invented Suited Everyone Just Fine (illustration) 12 Jacinta Bunnell and Nat Kusinitz 1.3 Oppression 13 Marilyn Frye 1.4 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference 16 Audre Lorde 1.5 Womanist 23 Alice Walker 1.6 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity 24 Michael S. Kimmel 1.7 Abandon Your Tedious Search: The Rulebook Has Been Found! 33 Kate Bornstein 1.8 Feminists Theorize Colonial/Postcolonial 39 Rosemary Marangoly George 2 Stories of Identity and Community 50 By Irene Lara 2.1 To Live in the Borderlands Means You 62 Gloria Anzaldua 2.2 Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves 63 Evelyn Alsultany 2.3 Where I Come from is Like This 68 Paula Gunn Allen 2.4 Introduction to Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy 74 Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild 2.5 From In Gerangl/In Struggle: A Handbook for Recognizing and Resisting Anti-Semitism and for Rebuilding Jewish Identity and Pride 84 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz with Bernice Mennis 2.6 losing home 86 eli clare 3 Histories of Feminism 92 By Bonnie Kime Scott 3.1 The Women at the Gate 99 Evelyn Sharp 3.2 And A n t I a Woman? 104 Sojourner Truth 3.3 When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision 106 Adrienne Rich 3.4 From Separate Roads to Feminism 114 Benita Roth 3.5 Feminist Consciousness and African Literary Criticism 120 Carole Boyce Davies 3.6 The Historical Denial of Lesbianism 129 Blanche Wiesen Cook 3.7 The Historian as Curandera 134 Aurora Levins Morales 4 Women and Gender in Arts and Media 148 By Bonnie Kime Scott 4.1 Obasan 154 Joy Kogawa 4.2 The Tag Project: Executive Order 9066 (illustration) 157 Wendy Maruyama 4.3 Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? (illustration) 158 Guerrilla Girls 4.4 The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman 158 Esther Newton 4.5 Shakespeare s Sister 169 Virginia Woolf 4.6 Creative Expressions 174 Maythee Rojas 4.7 Beauty and the Beast of Advertising 183 Jean Kilbourne 4.8 Pop and Circumstance: Why Pop Culture Matters 186 Andi Zeisler 5 Sexualities and Genders 195 By Susan E. Cayleff 5.1 poem on trying to love without fear 203 Maiana Minahal 5.2 Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power 205 Audre Lorde 5.3 The Happiest Day of My Life (illustration) 210 5.4 An Immodest Proposal 210 Heather Corinna 5.5 Charity Girls and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880 1920 214 Kathy Peiss 5.6 When You Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Woman 224 Indiana University Empowerment Workshop 5.7 Heterosexuality Questionnaire 225 Gay and Lesbian Speakers Bureau 5.8 Aligning Bodies, Identities, and Expressions: Transgender Bodies 226 Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore 5.9 Masculinity Politics on a World Scale 234 R. W. Connell 5.10 Brown Boi Health Manifesto 239 Prentis Hemphill 6 Body Politics 241 By Susan E. Cayleff 6.1 Recipe 247 Janice Mirikitani 6.2 A History of Women s Bodies 248 Rose Weitz 6.3 If Men Could Menstruate 256 Gloria Steinem 6.4 Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) 258 Laura Hershey 6.5 Do We Call You Handicapped? (illustration) 260 Morrie Turner 6.6 Maintaining Masculinity: Homophobia at Work 261 Eric Anderson 6.7 The Story of My Body 267 Judith Ortiz Cofer 6.8 veiled intentions: don t judge a muslim girl by her covering 274 maysan haydar 7 Reproductive and Environmental Justice 279 By Bonnie Kime Scott 7.1 Sequel to Love 285 Meridel le Sueur 7.2 Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health and Human Rights 288 Loretta J. Ross, Sarah L. Brownlee, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Luz Rodriquez, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project 7.3 Depo Diaries and the Power of Stories 297 Etobssie Wako and Cara Page 7.4 Women, People of Color, Children, and Health and Women and Environmental Justice 302 Karen J. Warren 7.5 Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism 309 Ynestra King 7.6 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows 315 Vandana Shiva 7.7 Green our Communities! Plant Urban Gardens (illustration) 323 Favianna Rodriguez 7.8 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism 323 Greta Gaard 8 Violence and Resistance 335 By Anne Donadey 8.1 The Yellow Wallpaper 343 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 8.2 Scope of the Problem 355 Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot 8.3 Sexual Assault Prevention Tips 367 Feminally 8.4 Legal Images of Battered Women 367 Martha R. Mahoney 8.5 Feminicidio: The Black Legend of the Border 381 Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzman 8.6 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 389 Cheryl Chase 8.7 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing 404 Andrea Smith 9 Healing and Spirituality 413 By Irene Lara 9.1 The Moths 422 Helena Maria Viramontes 9.2 My Guardian Spirits 426 Ama R. Saran 9.3 Honor and Ceremony in Women s Rituals 428 E. M. Broner 9.4 My World of the Unknown 435 Alifa Rifaat 9.5 From Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about Their Religious and Political Perspectives 445 Ines Maria Talamantez 9.6 The Clan of One-Breasted Women 450 Terry Tempest Williams 9.7 Life out of Balance 455 Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt 10 Activism for the Future 463 By Susan E. Cayleff 10.1 Feminism: A Transformational Politic 467 bell hooks 10.2 Smash Patriarchy (illustration) 474 10.3 Fat Liberation Manifesto 475 Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran 10.4 Fighting Back 476 Jenny Morris 10.5 Expanding Environmental Justice: Asian American Feminists Contribution 484 Julie Sze 10.6 El Mundo Zurdo and the Ample Space of the Erotic 491 M. Jacqui Alexander 10.7 Lessons for Transformation 496 AnaLouise Keating 10.8 All Sleeping Women Now Awake and Move (illustration) 507 10.9 Still I Rise 507 Maya Angelou Glossary 509 Timeline 520 Index 529
