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Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Eighth Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of women's experiences. Framework essays provide context and connections for students, while features like learning activities, ideas for activism, and questions for discussion provide a strong pedagogical structure for the readings.
Contents
*=New to this edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Women's and Gender Studies: Perspectives and Practices
The Origins of WGS
Women's Rights Activism in the United States
WGS Today
WGS and Feminism
Feminism and its Myths
1. Adrienne Rich, "Claiming an Education"
2. Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Consciousness"
3. *Combahee River Collective Statement
4. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, "A Day Without Feminism"
5. Kia M. Q. Hall, "A Transnational Black Feminist Framework"
6. *Valentine M. Moghadam, "Transnational Feminist Networks and Contemporary Crises"
7. *Graciela Mochkofsky, "Who Are You Calling Latinx?"
8. Marge Piercy, "My Heroines"
Chapter 2: Systems of Privilege and Inequality
Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality
Discourse, Power, and Knowledge
Institutions
9. Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward a New Vision"
10. Vivian M. May, "Intersectionality"
11. Audre Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression"
12. Gina Crosley-Corcoran, " Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"
13. Evin Taylor, "Cisgender Privilege"
14. Ellie Mamber, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says"
15. *Andrew Pulrang, "On Disability"
16. Jim Ferris "Poems with Disabilities"
Chapter 3: Learning Gender
Gender, Culture, and Biology
Masculinity
Femininity
Gender Fluidity
Gender Ranking
17. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes, Revisited"
18. Judith Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gende"
19. *Lisa M. Diamond, "Gender Fluidity and Nonbinary Gender Identities Among Children and Adolescents"
20. *Lise Eliot, "You don't have a male or female brain"
21. *Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, "Becoming a Maya Woman"
22. Nellie Wong, "When I Was Growing Up"
23. *Lois Gould, "X: A Fabulous Child's Story"
Chapter 4: Inscribing Gender on the Body
The Social Construction of the Body
The "Beauty" Ideal
Eating Disorders
Negotiating "Beauty" Ideals
24. *Viren Swamia, et al, "The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey"
25. Gloria Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate"
26. *Andrea Carlo,
