Women's and Gender Studies departments and programs are undergoing rapid transformation, creating the need for a comprehensive and accessible introductory textbook that addresses the current state of the field. Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches is the first text to reflect the exciting changes taking place in this field. Emphasizing both interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, this innovative mix of anthology and textbook includes key primary historical sources, debates on contemporary issues, and recent work in science, technology, and digital cultures. Readings from a range of genres-including poetry, short stories, op-eds, and feminist magazine articles-complement the scholarly selections and acknowledge the roots of creative and personal expression in the field. While the majority of selections are foundational texts, the book also integrates new work from established scholars and emerging voices to expand current debates in the field. The text is enhanced by thorough overviews that begin each section, robust and engaging pedagogy that encourages students to think critically and self-reflexively-and also to take action-as well as supplemental online resources for instructors.
Preface
Section I: Mapping the Field: An Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesIntroduction
Reading 1: bell hooks,
Feminist PoliticsReading 2: Allan Johnson,
Patriarchy, the System: an It, Not a He, a Them, or an UsReading 3: Anne Fausto-Sterling,
The Five Sexes RevisitedReading 4: Ijeoma A.,
Because I'm a GirlReading 5: C.J. Pascoe,
Making MasculinityReading 6: Judith Gardiner,
Friendships, Gender Theory, and Social ChangeReading 7: Paisley Currah,
Stepping Back and Looking Outward: Situating Transgender Activism and Transgender StudiesReading 8: Marilyn Frye,
OppressionReading 9: Peggy McIntosh,
White Privilege, Unpacking the Invisible KnapsackReading 10: Audre Lorde,
There Is No Hierarchy of OppressionsReading 11: Ashley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George,
Queer/African Identities: Questions, Limits, ChallengesReading 12: Soledad Caballero,
Before IntersectionalityReading 13: Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff,
Claiming and Education: Your Inheritance as a Student of Women's and Gender StudiesSection II: Historical Perspectives in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesIntroduction
Nineteenth Century
Reading 14: Angelina Emily Grimké,
An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836)
Reading 15:
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Reading 16: Sojourner Truth, 1851 Speech
Reading 17: Susan B. Anthony,
Sentencing Speech in the Case of United States vs. Susan B. AnthonyReading 18: Ida B. Wells,
A Red Record (1895)
Twentieth Century
Reading 19: Theresa Serber Malakiel,
Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker (1909)
Reading 20:
141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire (1911)
Reading 21: Daughters of Bilitis,
Mission Statement (1956)
Reading 22: Dick Leitsch,
Police Raid on N.Y. Club Sets off First Gay Riot (1969)
Reading 23: Pat Mainardi,
The Politics of Housework (1970)
Reading 24: Anne Koedt,
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm (1970)
Reading 25: Radicalesbian,
The Woman Identified Woman (1970)
Reading 26: Jo Carrillo,
And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You (1983)
Reading 27: Chicago Gay Liberation Front,
A Leaflet for the American Medical Association (1970)
Reading 28: The Combahee River Collective,
A Black Feminist Statement (1977)
Reading 29: bell hooks,
Men Comrades in Struggle (1984)
Reading 30: Gloria Anzaldúa,
La Conciencia de la Mestiza/ Towards a New Consciousness (1987)
Reading 31: Angela Davis,
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex (1998)
Twenty-First Century
Reading 32: Jackson Katz,
Guilty Pleasures: Pornography, Prostitution, and Stripping (2006)
Reading 33: Claire Moses,
"What's in a Name" On Writing the History of Feminism (2012)
Reading 34: Tina Vasquez,
It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women (2014)
Section III: Cultural Debates in Women's, Gender and Sexuality StudiesIntroduction
Re-Thinking the Family
Reading 35: Rebecca Fox-Barrett,
Constraints and Freedoms in Conservative Christian Women's LivesReading 36: Jessica Birch,
Love, Labor, and Lorde: The Tools My Grandmother Gave MeReading 37: Monisha Das Gupta,
"Don't Deport Our Daddies": The Political Use of Families in the Fight against DeportationReading 38: Lisa Duggan,
Beyond Same Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families and RelationshipsGender and Sexuality in the Labor Market
Reading 39: Marlene Kim,
Policies to End the Gender Wage Gap in the United StatesReading 40: Dean Spade,
Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile EconomyReading 41: Denise Brennan,
Women Work, Men Sponge, and Everyone Gossips: Macho Men and Stigmatized/ing Women is a Sex Tourist TownReproductive Politics
Reading 42: Alexandra DelValle,
From the Roots of Latina Feminism to the Future of the Reproductive Justice MovementReading 43: Kathy Ferguson,
Whose Freedom? Birth Control and the Enduring Fight Over Our BodiesReading 44: Frances Winddance Twine,
The Industrial WombGendered Violence
Reading 45: Victoria Banyard, Mary M. Moynihan, Wendy A. Walsh, Ellen S. Cohn, and Sally Ward,
Friends of Survivors: The Community Impact of Unwanted Sexual ExperiencesReading 46: Brad Perry,
Hooking Up with Healthy Sexuality: the Lessons Boys Learn (and Don't Learn) about Sexuality, and Why a Sex-Positive Rape Prevention Paradigm Can Benefit Everyone InvolvedReading 47: Beth Richie,
A Black Feminist Reflection on the Antiviolence MovementReading 48: Joel Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kat Whitlock,
False Promises: Criminal Legal Responses to Violence against LGBT PeopleReading 49: Isis Nusair,
Making Feminist Sense of Torture at Abu-GhraibPopular Culture and Media Representations
Reading 50: Meda Chesney-Lind,
Mean Girls, Bad Girls, or Just GirlsReading 51: Esra Özcan,
Who is a Muslim Woman?Reading 52: Ian Capulet,
With Reps Like These: Bisexuality and Celebrity StatusSection IV: Epistemologies of Bodies: Ways of Knowing and Experiencing the WorldIntroduction
Reading 53: Janet Mock, from
Redefining RealnessReading 54: Riki Wilchins,
Angry Intersex People With Signs!Reading 55: No'U Revilla,
How to Use a CondomReading 56: Tagi Qolouvaki,
stories she sung meReading 57: Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege,
What Her Body Taught (or, Teaching About and With A Disability): A ConversationReading 58: Aleicha Williams,
Too Latina to be Black, Too Black to Be LatinaReading 59: Dominique C. Hill,
(My) Lesbianism Is Not a Fixed PointReading 60: Patricia A. Gozemba,
The Last Word: A Performance Memoir on Mothers, Race, and SexualityReading 61: Eunjung Kim,
How Much Sex is Healthy: The Pleasures of AsexualityReading 62: Gloria Steinem,
If Men Could MenstruateReading 63: L. Ayu Saraswati,
Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin Whitening Advertisements in Transnational IndonesiaReading 64: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from
Americanah Reading 65: Susan Bordo,
Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male BodyReading 66: Don Sabo,
Doing Time, Doing Masculinity: Sports and PrisonsReading 67: Kimberly Dark,
Big Yoga StudentReading 68: Christina Lux,
anticipationSection V: Science, Technology, and the Digital WorldIntroduction
Reading 69: Sandra Harding,
Feminism Confronts the Sciences: Reform and TransformationReading 70: Emily Martin,
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female RolesReading 71: Liam Lair,
Sexology, Eugenics, and Hirschfeld's TransvestitesReading 72: Clare Jen,
Feminist Hactivisms: Countering Technophilia and Fictional PromisesReading 73: Joni Seager,
Rachel Carson Died of Breast Cancer: The Coming of Age of Feminist EnvironmentalismReading 74: Wendy Seymour,
Putting Myself in the Picture: Researching Disability and TechnologyReading 75: Kimberly A. Williams,
[email protected]: Cyber Sexual Violence in CanadaReading 76: Jason Whitesel,
Gay Men's Use of Online Pictures in Fat-Affirming GroupsReading 77: Farida Vis, Liesbet van Zoonen, and Sabina Mihelj,
Women Responding to the Anti-Islam Fitna: Voices and Acts of Citizenship on YouTubeReading 78: Aliette de Bodard,
ImmersionSection VI: Activist Frontiers: Agency and ResistanceIntroduction
Reading 79: Lila Abu-Lughod,
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its OthersReading 80: Beenash Jafri,
Not Your Indian Eco-Princess: Indigenous Women's Resistance to Environmental DegradationReading 81: Elizabeth Cole and Zakiya Luna,
Making Coalitions Work: Solidarity across Difference within US FeminismReading 82: DaMaris B. Hill,
ConcreteReading 83: Melanie Fey, Amber McCrary, and Bradly Werley,
Empower Yoself Before You Wreck Yoself: Native American Feminist MusingsReading 84: Hannah Britton and Taylor Price,
"If Good Food is Cooked in One Country, We Will All Eat From It": Women and Civil Society in AfricaReading 85: Michael Winter,
I Was ThereReading 86: Sarah Fryett,
Laudable Laughter: Feminism and Stand-Up ComedyReading 87: Guerrilla Girls,
When Sexism and Racism Are No Longer FashionableReading 88: Kathleen Hanna/Bikini Kill,
Riot Grrrl ManifestoReading 89: Julie Enszer,
On Lesbian-Feminism and Lesbian Separatism: A New Intersectional HistoryReading 90: Amber Vlasnik,
Campus-Based Women's/Gender Centers: Enacting Feminist Theories, Creating Social Change