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Women in Culture
A Women's Studies Anthology
Lucinda Joy Peach (Edited by)
9781557866486, Wiley
Hardback, published 11 January 1998
476 pages
23.7 x 15.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.789 kg
"Helpful, editorial summaries of the field, a diverse selection of 'readings'." Journal of American Studies
This anthology collects key texts on women in culture and offers an ideal introduction, for students in women's studies and feminism, to the cultural dimensions of women's experience today.
Preface x Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 Part I The Cultural Construction of Gender 13 1 Women in Culture 15 Introduction 15 Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture 23 Oppression 45 Suggested Activities 50 Bibliography 52 2 Commonalities and Differences among Women 55 Introduction 55 Commonalities and Differences (excerpt) 63 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference 69 And A’n’t I a Woman? 77 When you Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Woman 80 Indiana University Empowerment Workshop Heterosexuality Questionnaire 81 Gay and Lesbian Speaker’s Bureau Suggested Activities 82 Bibliography 85 3 Cultural Representations of Women 91 Introduction 91 Ways of Seeing (excerpt) 97 Beyond caring: the De-moralization of Gender 105 Suggested Activities 112 Bibliography 114 Part II Cultural Institutions Defining Women 117 4 Women and Popular Culture I: Advertising, Print Media, and Pornography 119 Introduction 119 Beauty and the Beast of Advertising 127 Fresh Lipstick: Rethinking Images of Women in Advertising 131 Suggested Activities 141 Bibliography 145 5 Women and Popular Culture II: Television and Film 149 Introduction 149 Solace in Soapland 153 No Way to Treat a Lawyer 160 Suggested Activities 165 Bibliography 167 6 Fashion, Beauty, and Women’s Health 171 Introduction 171 The Beauty Myth (excerpt) 179 Madonna, Fashion, and Identity (excerpt) 187 Obsession: the Tyranny of Slenderness 201 Suggested Activities 216 Bibliography 219 7 Motherhood and Families 223 Introduction 223 Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood (excerpt) 231 Fall from Grace: Twentieth-century Mom (excerpt) 244 Out of the Stream: an Essay on Unconventional Motherhood 251 Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens (excerpt) 261 Suggested Activities 272 Bibliography 275 8 Sex, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Abuse 283 Introduction 283 High School Lowdown 301 Scope of the Problem 304 Legal Images of Battered Women (excerpt) 323 In the Truth Itself, There is Healing (excerpt) 338 Suggested Activities 349 Bibliography 356 Part III Opportunities for Women in Culture 363 9 Women Creating Culture 365 Introduction 365 The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Woman in Nineteenth-Century America (excerpt) 372 Revolution, Girl Style 391 Witchcraft as Goddess Religion 394 Suggested Activities 401 Bibliography 404 10 Feminism and the Future 409 Introduction 409 Feminism: a Transformational Politic 418 Recognizing, Accepting, and Celebrating our Differences 427 Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism (excerpt) 433 Still I Rise 440 Suggested Activities 441 Bibliography 444 Index 449
Sherry B. Ortner
Marilyn Frye
Johnnetta B. Cole
Audre Lorde
Sojourner Truth
John Berger
Marilyn Friedman
Jean Kilbourne
Linda M. Scott
Elayne Rapping
Terry Kay Diggs
Naomi Wolf
Douglas Kellner
Kim Chernin
Patricia Hill Collins
Shari L. Thurer
Shirley Glubka
Susan Sherwin
Miranda J. Van Gelder
Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot
Martha R. Mahoney
Ellen Bass
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Farai Chideya, with Melissa Rossi and Dogen Hannah
Starhawk
bell hooks
Papusa Molina
Ynestra King
Maya Angelou
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
