Table of Content
* Indicates a new reading ** Indicates updated reading PART I: WHAT IS WOMEN'S STUDIES? 1. Talking Back, BELL HOOKS 2. Sins of Silence, MAI KAO THAO 3. Claiming an Education, ADRIENNE RICH 4. The Politics of Black Women's Studies, AKASHA (GLORIA T.) HULL AND BARBARA SMITH 5. Men and Women's Studies: Premises, Perils, and Promise, MICHAEL KIMMEL 6. Have You Ever Heard of Asian-American Feminists?, STACEY G.H. YAP 7. Voices of Women's Studies Students: Women's Studies as a Growth Process, DANISTA HUNTE; Finding My Latina Identity Through Women's Studies, LUANA FERREIRA; What Women's Studies Has Meant To Me, LUCITA WOODIS; Why Women's Studies?, DEBORAH HALSTEAD LENNON; Women's Studies: A Man's Perspective, EVAN WEISSMAN *8. Women's Studies as Women's History, MARILYN J. BOXER PART II: BECOMING A WOMAN IN OUR SOCETY Dominant Ideas About Women 9. The Problem That Has No Name, BETTY FRIEDAN 10. A Work of Artifice, MARGE PIERCY 11. Purification, GRACEPOORE 12. To Be Real, DANZY SENNA 13. Blazes of Truth, SUSAN SCHNUR 14. In Search of Liberation, DEBRA KENT 15. Brideland, NAOMI WOLF 16. On Being a "Good Girl": Implications for Latinas in the United States, ELISA DAVILA *17. Girls: We are the Ones Who Can Make a Change, ANA GROSSMAN and EMMA PETERS-AXTELL 18. Not a Pretty Girl, ANI DIFRANCO Learning Gender 19. The Gift, MURIELLE MINARD 20. Klaus Barbie and Other Dolls I'd Like to See, SUSAN JANE GIILMAN *21. An Educator's Primer on the Gender War, DAVID SADKER 22. The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior, NANCY HENLEY AND JO FREEMAN 23. Teen Mags: How to Get a Guy, Drop 20 Pounds, and Lose Your Self-Esteem, ANASTASIA HIGGINBOTHAM *24. The Unreal World, JENNIFER L. POZNER *25. No Respect: Gender Politics and Hip-Hop, JOHNNETTA COLE and BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL 26. Mutineers in Mainstream Music: Heralds of a New Feminist Wave? NAOMI WEISSTEIN 27. Video, INDIA.ARIE 28. X: A Fabulous Child's Story, LOIS GOULD PART III: GENDER AND WOMEN'S BODIES Female Beauty 29. The Beauty Myth, NAOMI WOLF 30. When I Was Growing Up, NELLIE WONG 31. To Other Women Who Were Ugly Once, INES HERNANDEZ-AVILA 32. Nose Is A Country... I Am the Second Generation, AISHE BERGER 33. The Body Politic, ABRA FORTUNE CHERNIK 34. Breaking the Model, GRACIELA (CHELY) RODRIQUEZ 35. The Fat Girl Rules the World, JULY SIEBECKER 36. Homage to My Hair, LUCILLE CLIFTON 37. Homage to My Hips, LUCILLE CLIFTON Sexuality and Relationships 38. Lusting for Freedom, REBECCA WALKER 39. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture and Gender in Filipina-American Lives," YEN LE ESPIRITU 40. Esta Risa No Es De Loca, CARIDAD SOUSA 41. Pleasures, DIANE HUGS 42. Loving Another Woman, ANNE KOEDT *43. In Search of the Elusive Orgasm, LORI L. THARPS 44. Bisexuality, Feminism, Men and Me, ROBYN OCHS PART IV: INSTITUTIONS THAT SHAPE WOMEN'S LIVES Women and Work **45. An Overview of Women and Work, ELLEN BRAVO, GLORIA SANTA ANA AND LINDA MERIC 46. Questions and Answers about Pay Equity, NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR PAY EQUITY 47. The Politics of Housework, PAT MAINARDI OF REDSTOCKINGS 48. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued, ANN CRITTENDEN **49. Friendly for Whose Family? BETTY HOLCOMB **50. 9to5: Organizing Low-Wage Women, ELLEN BRAVO, GLORIA SANTA ANA AND LINDA MERIC *51. Sexual Harassment, ELLEN BRAVO *52. Sexual Harassment and the Law, ARLENE FOY REYNOLDS 53. In Case of Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Women Students, BERNICE SANDLER *54. Each Day I Go Home with a New Wound in My Heart, MIRIAM CHING YOON LOUIE
