Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives

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GENDERED LIVES: INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
BRIEF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART 1: Women’s and Gender Studies: Knowing and Understanding
	CHAPTER 1: Untangling the “F”-word
		FEMINIST MOVEMENTS AND FRAMEWORKS
			Native American Antecedents
			Legal Equality for Women
			Resisting Interlocking Systems of Oppression
			Queer and Trans Feminisms
		THE FOCUS OF WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
			Myth 1: Women’s and Gender Studies Is Ideological
			Myth 2: Women’s and Gender Studies Is Narrow
			Myth 3: Women’s and Gender Studies Is a White, Middle-Class, Western Thing
			Men Doing Feminism
		COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
			1. A Matrix of Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance
			2. From the Personal to the Global
			3. Linking the Head, Heart, and Hands
			4. A Secure and Sustainable Future
		THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			1. PAULA GUNN ALLEN, “WHO IS YOUR MOTHER? RED ROOTS OF WHITE FEMINISM” (1986)
			2. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, “DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS” (1848)
			3. COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE, “A BLACK FEMINIST STATEMENT” (1977)
			4. MATHANGI SUBRAMANIAN, “THE BROWN GIRL’S GUIDE TO LABELS” (2010)
			5. *LOAN TRAN, “DOES GENDER MATTER? NOTES TOWARD GENDER LIBERATION” (2018)
	CHAPTER 2: Creating Knowledge: Integrative Frameworks  for Understanding
		WHAT IS A THEORY?
		CREATING KNOWLEDGE: EPISTEMOLOGIES, VALUES, AND METHODS
			Dominant Perspectives
			Critiques of Dominant Perspectives
			The Role of Values
		SOCIALLY LIVED THEORIZING
			Standpoint Theory
			Challenges to Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory
			Purposes of Socially Lived Theorizing
		MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS AND THE CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE
			The Stories Behind the Headlines
			Whose Knowledge?
			Reading Media Texts
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			6. *ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING, “THE FIVE SEXES, REVISITED” (2000)
			7. ALLAN G. JOHNSON, “PATRIARCHY, THE SYSTEM: AN IT, NOT A HE, A THEM, OR AN US” (1997)
			8. PATRICIA HILL COLLINS, EXCERPT FROM “BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: KNOWLEDGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE POLITICS OF EMPOWERMENT” (1990)
			9. NADINE NABER, “DECOLONIZING CULTURE: BEYOND ORIENTALIST AND ANTI-ORIENTALIST FEMINISMS” (2010)
			10. *WHITNEY POW, “THAT’S NOT WHO I AM: CALLING OUT AND CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES OF ASIAN AMERICANS” (2012)
	CHAPTER 3: Identities and Social Locations
		BEING MYSELF: THE MICRO LEVEL
		COMMUNITY RECOGNITION AND EXPECTATIONS: THE MESO LEVEL
		SOCIAL CATEGORIES AND STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES: MACRO AND GLOBAL LEVELS
			Defining Gender Identities
			Maintaining Systems of Structural Inequality
			Colonization, Immigration, and the US Landscape of Race and Class
		MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL LOCATIONS
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			11. DOROTHY ALLISON, “A QUESTION OF CLASS” (1993)
			12. MELANIE KAYE/KANTROWITZ, “JEWS, CLASS, COLOR, AND THE COST OF WHITENESS” (1992)
			13. *ELI CLARE, “BODY SHAME, BODY PRIDE: LESSONS FROM THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT” (2013)
			14. *MARIKO UECHI. “BETWEEN BELONGING: A CULTURE OF HOME” (2018)
			15. JULIA ALVAREZ, EXCERPT FROM “ONCE UPON A QUINCEÑERA: COMING OF AGE IN THE USA” (2007)
PART II: Our Bodies, Ourselves
	CHAPTER 4: Sexuality
		WHAT DOES SEXUALITY MEAN TO YOU?
		HETEROPATRIARCHY PUSHES HETEROSEX . . .
			. . . and Racist, Ageist, Ableist Stereotypes
			Objectification and Double Standards
			Media Representations
		QUEERING SEXUALITY
			“Queer” as a Catch-All?
			Queering Economies and Nation-States
		DEFINING SEXUAL FREEDOM
			Radical Heterosexuality
			Eroticizing Consent
			The Erotic as Power
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			16. *DAISY HERNÁNDEZ, “EVEN IF I KISS A WOMAN” (2014)
			17. *ARIANE CRUZ, “(MIS)PLAYING BLACKNESS: RENDERING BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY IN THE MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL” (2015)
			18. *JENNIFER KEISHIN ARMSTRONG, “HOW SEX AND THE CITY HOLDS UP IN THE #METOO ERA” (2018)
			19. *V. SPIKE PETERSON, “THE INTENDED AND UNINTENDED QUEERING OF STATES/NATIONS” (2013)
			20. AUDRE LORDE, “USES OF THE EROTIC: THE EROTIC AS POWER” (1984)
	CHAPTER 5: Bodies, Health, and Wellness
		HUMAN EMBODIMENT
			Body Ideals and Beauty Standards
			Body Acceptance
		REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
			Focusing on Fertility
			Reproductive Justice: An Intersectional Framework
		HEALTH AND WELLNESS
			Health Disparities
			Mental and Emotional Health
			Aging and Health
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			21. *LINDA TRINH V¯O, “TRANSNATIONAL BEAUTY CIRCUITS: ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN, TECHNOLOGY, AND CIRCLE CONTACT LENSES” (2016)
			22. *MARGITTE KRISTJANSSON, “FASHION’S ‘FORGOTTEN WOMAN’: HOW FAT BODIES QUEER FASHION AND CONSUMPTION” (2014)
			23. *LORETTA J. ROSS, “UNDERSTANDING REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE” (2011)
			24. *ALISON KAFER, “DEBATING FEMINIST FUTURES: SLIPPERY SLOPES, CULTURAL ANXIETY, AND THE CASE OF THE DEAF LESBIANS” (2013)
			25. BELL HOOKS, “LIVING TO LOVE” (1993)
	CHAPTER 6: Sexualized Violence
		WHAT COUNTS AS SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE?
		THE INCIDENCE OF SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE
			Intimate Partner Violence
			Rape and Sexual Assault
			Effects of Gender Expression, Race, Class, Nation, Sexuality, and Disability
			Gender-Based State Violence
		EXPLAINING SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE
			Explanations Focused on Gender
			Sexualized Violence Is Not Only About Gender
		ENDING SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE
			Providing Support for Victims/Survivors
			Public and Professional Education
			The Importance of a Political Movement
			Contradictions in Seeking State Support to End Gender-Based Violence
		SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			26. AURORA LEVINS MORALES, “RADICAL PLEASURE: SEX AND THE END OF VICTIMHOOD” (1998)
			27. *ALLEEN BROWN, “INDIGENOUS WOMEN HAVE BEEN DISAPPEARING FOR GENERATIONS: POLITICIANS ARE FINALLY STARTING TO NOTICE” (2018)
			28. *NICOLA HENRY AND ANASTASIA POWELL, “TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE” (2018)
			29. *JONATHAN GROVE, “ENGAGING MEN AGAINST VIOLENCE” (2018)
			30. RITA LAURA SEGATO, “TERRITORY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND CRIMES OF THE SECOND STATE: THE WRITING ON THE BODY OF MURDERED WOMEN” (2010)
PART III: Home and Work in a Globalizing World
	CHAPTER 7: Making a Home, Making a Living
		RELATIONSHIPS, HOME, AND FAMILY
			Partnership and Marriage
			The Ideal Nuclear Family
		GENDER AND WORK
		BALANCING HOME AND WORK
			The Second Shift
			Caring for Children
			Flextime, Part-Time, and Home Working
		GENDER AND ECONOMIC SECURITY
			Education and Job Opportunities
			Organized Labor and Collective Action
			Working and Poor
			Pensions, Disability Payments, and Welfare
			Understanding Class Inequalities
		RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			31. *CLAIRE CAIN MILLER, “THE COSTS OF MOTHERHOOD ARE RISING, AND CATCHING WOMEN OFF GUARD (2018)
			32. *SARA LOMAX-REESE, “BLACK MOTHER/SONS” (2016)
			33. *LINDA BURNHAM AND NIK THEODORE, EXCERPT FROM “HOME ECONOMICS: THE INVISIBLE AND UNREGULATED WORLD OF DOMESTIC WORK” (2012)
			34. *LINDA STEINER, “GLASSY ARCHITECTURES IN JOURNALISM” (2014)
			35. *EMIR ESTRADA AND PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO, “LIVING THE THIRD SHIFT: LATINA ADOLESCENT STREET VENDORS IN LOS ANGELES” (2013)
	CHAPTER 8: Living in a Globalizing World
		LOCATIONS, CIRCUITS, AND FLOWS
		MIGRATIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS
			Migration
			Migration Patterns
			Tourism, Trafficking, and Transnational Adoption and Surrogacy
		CONSUMPTION: GOODS, INFORMATION, AND POPULAR CULTURE
			Material Flows
			Information Flows
			Cultural Flows
		GLOBAL FACTORIES AND CARE CHAINS
		THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM
			Assumptions and Ideologies
			Legacies of Colonization
		TRANSNATIONAL ALLIANCES FOR A SECURE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			36. GLORIA ANZALDÚA, “THE HOMELAND: AZTLÁN/EL OTRO MEXICO” (1987)
			37. PUN NGAI, EXCERPT FROM “MADE IN CHINA” (2005)
			38. *CAROLIN SCHURR, “THE BABY BUSINESS BOOMS: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION” (2018)
			39. *MOIRA BIRSS, “WHEN DEFENDING THE LAND BECOMES A CRIME” (2017)
			40. *MARK GRAHAM AND ANASUYA SENGUPTA, “WE’RE ALL CONNECTED NOW, SO WHY IS THE INTERNET SO WHITE AND WESTERN?” (2017)
PART IV: Security and Sustainability
	CHAPTER 9: Gender, Crime, and Criminalization
		FEMALE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
			People in Women’s Prisons
			Race and Class Disparities
			Girls in Detention
			Women Political Prisoners
		THE NATIONAL CONTEXT: “TOUGH ON CRIME”
			The War on Drugs
			Incarceration as a Business
		CRIMINALIZATION AS A POLITICAL PROCESS
			Definitions and Justifications
			Profiling and Surveillance for “National Security”
			Criminalization of Migration
		INSIDE/OUTSIDE CONNECTIONS
			Support for People in Women’s Prisons
			Prison Reform, Decriminalization, and Abolition
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			41. *SUSAN BURTON AND CARI LYNN, EXCERPTS FROM “BECOMING MS. BURTON” (2017)
			42. *JULIA SUDBURY, “FROM WOMEN PRISONERS TO PEOPLE IN WOMEN’S PRISONS: CHALLENGING THE GENDER BINARY IN ANTIPRISON WORK” (2011)
			43. *DIALA SHAMAS, “LIVING IN HOUSES WITHOUT WALLS: MUSLIM YOUTH IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11” (2018)
			44. *LESLIE A. CAMPOS, “UNEXPECTED BORDERS” (2018)
			45. *SPANISH FEDERATION OF FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS, “WALLS AND ENCLOSURES: THIS IS NOT THE EUROPE IN WHICH WE WANT TO LIVE” (2016)
	CHAPTER 10: Gender, Militarism, War, and Peace
		WOMEN IN THE US MILITARY
			Soldier Mothers
			Women in Combat
		MILITARISM AS A SYSTEM
			Militarism, Patriarchy, and Masculinity
			Militarism and Histories of Colonization
			Militarization as a Process
		IMPACTS OF WAR AND MILITARISM
			Vulnerability and Agency
			Healing from War
		REDEFINING SECURITY
			Women’s Peace Organizing
			Demilitarization as a Process
			Demilitarization and Feminist Thinking
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			46. *JULIE PULLEY, “THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MILITARY GENDER INTEGRATION DEBATE” (2016)
			47. *ANNIE ISABEL FUKUSHIMA, AYANO GINOZA, MICHIKO HASE, GWYN KIRK, DEBORAH LEE, AND TAEVA SHEFLER, “DISASTER MILITARISM: RETHINKING U.S. RELIEF IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC” (2014)
			48. *JANE FREEDMAN, ZEYNEP KIVILCIM, AND NURCAN ÖZGÜR BAKLACIOG˘LU, “GENDER, MIGRATION AND EXILE” (2017)
			49. *AMINA MAMA AND MARGO OKAZAWA-REY, “MILITARISM, CONFLICT AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN THE GLOBAL ERA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR WOMEN IN THREE WEST AFRICAN CONTEXTS” (2012)
			50. JULIA WARD HOWE, “MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION” (1870)
	CHAPTER 11: Gender and Environment
		THE BODY, THE FIRST ENVIRONMENT
		FOOD AND WATER
			The Food Industry
			Food Security
			Safeguarding Water
		POPULATION, RESOURCES, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
			Overpopulation, Overconsumption, or Both?
			Science, Gender, and Climate Change
		GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
		CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
			Defining Sustainability
			Projects and Models for a Sustainable Future
			Feminist Thinking for a Sustainable Future
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			51. SANDRA STEINGRABER, “ROSE MOON” (2001)
			52. BETSY HARTMANN AND ELIZABETH BARAJAS-ROMÁN, “REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, NOT POPULATION CONTROL: BREAKING THE WRONG LINKS AND MAKING THE RIGHT ONES IN THE MOVEMENT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE” (2009)
			53. MICHELLE R. LOYD-PAIGE, “THINKING AND EATING AT THE SAME TIME: REFLECTIONS OF A SISTAH VEGAN” (2010)
			54. *WHITNEY EULICH, “MONTHS AFTER HURRICANE MARIA, PUERTO RICANS TAKE RECOVERY INTO THEIR OWN HANDS” (2018)
			55. *VANDANA SHIVA, “BUILDING WATER DEMOCRACY: PEOPLE’S VICTORY AGAINST COCA-COLA IN PLACHIMADA” (2004)
PART V: Activism and Change
	CHAPTER 12: Creating Change: Theories, Visions, and Actions
		HOW DOES SOCIAL CHANGE HAPPEN?
			Using the Head: Theories for Social Change
			Using the Heart: Visions for Social Change
			Using the Hands: Action for Social Change
			Evaluating Activism, Refining Theory
		IDENTITIES AND IDENTITY-BASED POLITICS
		ELECTORAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE
			Running for Office
			Gendered Voting Patterns
		ALLIANCES FOR CHALLENGING TIMES
			Some Principles for Alliance Building
			Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Alliances
			Transnational Women’s Organizing
			Next Steps for Feminist Movements
			QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
			FINDING OUT MORE ON THE WEB
			TAKING ACTION
		READINGS
			56. ABRA FORTUNE CHERNIK, “THE BODY POLITIC” (1995)
			57. *DEBORAH LEE, “FAITH AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE” (2018)
			58. *PATRICIA ST. ONGE, “TWO PEOPLES, ONE FIRE” (2016)
			59. *LOUISE BURKE, “THE #METOO SHOCKWAVE: HOW THE MOVEMENT HAS REVERBERATED AROUND THE WORLD” (2018)
			60. *ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT, CENTER FOR WOMEN’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP, AND AFRICAN WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, “FEMINIST PROPOSITIONS FOR A JUST ECONOMY: TIME FOR CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS” (2016)
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