* Denotes selections new to this edition.
Autobiography.
Leigh Gilmore, Theme Introduction to Autobiography.
Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Gloria Anzaldua, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness."Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).
Nien Cheng, from Life and Death in Shanghai (1986).
Jill Ker Conway, "Drought."The Road from Coorain (1989).
* Simone de Beauvoir, from The Prime of Life (1960).
Le Ly Hayslip, from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1989).
Maxine Hong-Kingston, "No Name Woman."The Woman Warrior (1977).
Jamaica Kincaid, from A Small Place (1988).
Audre Lorde, from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982).
Gertrude Stein, from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933).
Sara Suleri, "Meatless Days."Meatless Days (1989).
The Body.
Valerie Lee, Theme Introduction to The Body.
Marcia Aldrich, "Hair."Northwest Review (1992).
Dorothy Allison, from Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995).
Caroline Walker Bynum, "The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Later Middle Ages."Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Redemption (1991).
Susan K. Cahn, "From the `Muscle Moll' to the `Butch' Ballplayer: `Mannishness', Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports."Feminist Studies (1992).
"Changing Norms of Beauty."Godey's Lady's Book and Harper's Bazaar (1848/1908).
Geoffrey Cowley, "The Biology of Beauty."Newsweek (1996).
Jean Dykstra, "Putting Herself in the Picture: Autobiographical Images of Illness and the Body."Afterimage (1995).
* Nora Ephron, "Shaping Up Absurd."Crazy Salad (1972).
Joanna Frueh, "The Body through Women's Eyes."The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (1994).
Stephanie Grant, "Posting Up"Agog (1990).
Lucy Grealy, "Mirrorings: To Gaze upon My Reconstructed Face."Harper's (1993).
Zora Neale Hurston, from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1978).
* Tsianina Lomawaima, "You're a Woman, You're Going to Be a Wife."They Called It Prairie Light (1994).
Nancy Mairs, "Carnal Acts."Carnal Acts (1990).
* Farzaneh Milani, "The Deportation of Barbie from Iran."Iris (1999).
Cherrie Moraga, from Loving in the War Years (1983).
Difference and Inequality.
Mary Margaret Fonow, Theme Introduction to Difference and Inequality.
* Dorothy Allison, "A Question of Class."Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature.
Gloria Anzaldua, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness."Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).
Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill. "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism."Feminist Studies (1996).
Charlotte Bunch, "Making Common Cause: Diversity and Coalitions."Passionate Politics: Essays 1968-1986 (1987).
Alice Childress, The Pocketbook Game (1956).
Chrystos, "I Am Not Your Princess."Not Vanishing (1988).
Judith Ortiz Cofer,. "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria."The Latin Deli (1993).
* Rebecca Dobkins, Corresponding with Power: Letters between the Mothers of California Indian Children and Federal Boarding School Officials, 1916-1922 (1994).
Ann duCille, "Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandizing of Difference."Differences: A Journal of Women's Cultural Studies (1994).
Marilyn Frye, "Oppression."The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983).
Lois Gould, "X: A Fabulous Child's Story."Ms. (1972).
Ynestra King, "The Other Body: Reflections on Difference, Disability, and Identity Politics."Ms. (1993).
* Tsianina Lomawaima, "You're a Woman, You're Going to Be a Wife."They Called It Prairie Light (1994).
Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference."Sister Outsider (1984).
* Peggy MacIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack (1988).
* Barbara Neely, "Sisters."The Things That Divide Us (1985).
Suzanne Pharr, Excerpt from "Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (1988).
* Leslie Mormon Silko, "The Border Patrol State."Yellow Women and a Beauty of the Spirit (1996).
Gloria Steinem, "Rebecca Adamson."Ms. (1997).
Dana Y. Takagi, Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America (1997).
* Cheryl Tavris, "Measuring Up."The Mismeasure of Woman (1992).
Becky, Thompson. "Time Traveling and Border Crossing: Reflections on White Identity."Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (1996).
Linda Villarosa, and Clara. "Coming Out."Essence. (1991).
* Alice Walker, "Strong Horse Tea."In Love and Trouble (1973).
Laura Wernick, "Jewish and White: Issues of Passing."The Present Generation: Issues on College Campuses (Panel Discussion) (1990).
Patricia Williams, "Hate Radio: Why We Need to Tune in to Limbaugh and Stern."Ms. (1994).
Sarah Willie, "Playing the Devil's Advocate: Defending a Multiracial Identity in Fractured Community."Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (1996).
Deborah Woo, "The Gap between Striving and Achieving: The Case of Asian-American Women."Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian Women (1989).
Jenny Yamato, "Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name."Changing Our Power (1988).
* Anzia Yezierska, "My Own People."Hungry Hearts (1920).
Education.
Elizabeth Allan, Theme Introduction to Education.
Lee Ann Bell, "Something Is Wrong Here and It's Not Me: Challenging the Dilemmas that Block Girls' Success."Journal for the Education of the Gifted (1989).
Ira Berkow, "Walking Away, While He Still Can."The New York Times (1993).
Madeleine Blais, "In these Girls, Hope Is a Muscle."The New York Times Magazine (1993).
Debra E. Blum, "College Sports' L-Word."The Chronicle of Higher Education (1994).
Barbara Christian, "Camouflaging Race and Gender."Representations (1996).
Edward H. Clarke, "Sex in Education."Sex in Education: Or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1873).
M. Margaret Conway, David W. Ahern, and Gertrude A. Steuernagel, "Women, Education, and the Policy Process."Women and Public Policy: A Revolution in Progress (1995).
* Rebecca Dobkins, Corresponding with Power: Letters between the Mothers of California Indian Children and Federal Boarding School Officials, 1916-1922 (1994).
Linda Grant, "Helpers, Enforcers, and Go-Betweens: Black Females in Elementary School Classrooms."Women of Color in U.S. Society (1994).
Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart, "Getting into the World of Romance and Attractiveness."Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture (1990).
Winona LaDuke, "Nitzitapi and the Blackfeet Community."Indigenous Woman (1996).
* Tsianina Lomawaima, "You're a Woman, You're Going to Be a Wife."They Called It Prairie Light.(1994).
Marci McNaghten, "A Sporting Chance for Women."Ohio State Quest (1994).
Lori Murray, "Left at the Starting Gate: Gender Inequality in Education."Columbus Parent (1997).
Katha Pollitt, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls."The New York Times Magazine (1995).
Myra Sadker and David Sadker, "Missing in Interaction."Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls (1994).
Myra Sadker, David Sadker, Lynn Fox and Melinda Salata. "Gender Equity in the Classroom: The Unfinished Agenda."College Board Review (1993).
Curtis Sittenfeld, "Your Life as a Girl."Listen Up!: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (1995).
M. Carey Thomas, "Present Tendencies in Women's College and University Education."Educational Review (1907).
William G. Tierney, "Building Academic Communities of Difference: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals on Campus."Change. (1992).
Family Relations.
Nancy D. Campbell, Theme Introduction to Family Relations.
Jennifer and David Allyn, "Identity Politics."To Be Real (1995).
Maxine Baca Zinn, "Family, Feminism, and Race in America."Race, Class and Gender: Common Bonds, Different Voices (1996).
Maxine Baca Zinn, "Feminist Rethinking from Racial-Ethnic Families."Women of Color in U.S. Society (1995).
Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers. "Look Who's Talking about Work and Family."Ms. (1996).
Frank Browning, "Why Marry?"The New York Times. (1996).
Micaela di Leonardo, "The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship."Signs. (1987).
Nan D. Hunter, "Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case."The Nation (1991).
Susan Lehrer, "Family and Women's Lives."Women: Images and Realities - A Multicultural Anthology (1995).
Elaine Tyler May, "Baby Boom and Birth Control."Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988).
Jonathan Rauch, "For Better or Worse?"New Republic (1996).
Judith Stacey, "The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families."Brave New Families (1991).
Judy Syfers, "I Want a Wife."Radical Feminism. (1973).
Lindsy Van Gelder, "Marriage as a Restricted Club."Ms. (1984).
Feminism and Women's Movements.
Susan M. Hartmann, Theme Introduction to Feminism and Women's Movements.
Charlotte Bunch, "Bringing the Global Home."Passionate Politics: Essays 1968-1986 (1987).
William Chafe, "The Revival of Feminism."The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century (1991).
"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions." The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848. Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (1848).
Ellen Carol DuBois, "The First Women's Rights Movement."Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America 1848-1869 (1978). (18pps.)
Alice Echols, "Nothing Distant about It: Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism."The Sixties: From Memory to History. (1994).
* Susan Faludi, "Introduction: Blame It on Feminism."Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women.
Lisa Maria Hogeland, "Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies."Ms. (1994).
bell hooks, "Men in Feminist Struggle - The Necessary Movement."Women Respond to the Men's Movement (1992).
Jane Mansbridge, "What Is the Feminist Movement?"Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement. (1995).
Elizabeth Martinez, "In Pursuit of Latina Liberation."Signs (1995).
National Organization for Women. "NOW's Statement of Purpose."It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement. (1966) and "NOW Bill of Rights."Rebirth of Feminism. (1968).
Ellen Neuborne, "Imagine My Surprise."Listen Up!: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation, (1995).
Nell Irvin Painter, "Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women."Women's America: Refocusing the Past. (1994).
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, "Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women."The Woman's Era. (1895).
Karen Sacks, "The Class Roots of Feminism."Monthly Review (1976).
Barbara Smith, "Introduction."Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self."
Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. (1851).
Tracy Zollinger Turner, "Feminism by Osmosis."The Columbus Guardian (1994).
Nikki van der Gaag, "Women: Still Something to Shout About."New Internationalist (1995).
Sally Roesch Wagner, "Is Equality Indigenous? The Untold Iroquois Influence on the Early Radical Feminists."On the Issues: The Progressive Women's Quarterly (1996).
Alice Walker, "Womanist."In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983).
Rebecca Walker, "Becoming the Third Wave."Ms. (1992).
Ara Wilson, "Lesbian Visibility and Sexual Rights at Beijing."Signs (1996).
Health and Medicine.
Linda A. Bernhard, Theme Introduction to Health and Medicine.
Ellen Bassuk, "The Rest Cure: Repetition or Resolution of Victorian Women's Conflicts?"The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives (1986).
* Ira Berkow, "Alcohol Abuse Ends 2 Lives and Wrecks Another."The New York Times (1999).
Abra Fortune Chernik, "The Body Politic."Listen Up!: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (1995).
Barbara Crossette, "New Tally of World Tragedy: Women Who Die Giving Life."The New York Times (1996).
Linda Delgado, "Arroz con Pollo versus Slim Fast."Women: Images and Realities - A Multicultural Reader (1995).
Lesley Doyal, "Abusing Women."What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health (1995).
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English, "The Doctors' Stake in Women's Illness." "The Scientific Explanation of Female Frailty."Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (1973).
Susan Ferraro, "You Can't Look Away Anymore: The Anguished Politics of Breast Cancer Activism."The New York Times Magazine. (1993).
Ellen M. Goudsmit, "All in Her Mind! Stereotypic Views and the Psychologisation of Women's Illness."Women & Health: Feminist Perspectives (1994).
* Caroline Knapp, "Drinking: A Love Story."Cosmopolitan (1996).
Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee, "Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity."Women's Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine and Public Health (1994).
Emily Martin, "Body Narratives, Body Boundaries."Cultural Studies (1992).
Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm."Signs. (1991).
Heather Ramsay, "Lesbians and the Health Care System: Invisibility, Isolation, and Ignorance - You Say You're a What?"Canadian Woman Studies (1994).
Caitlin C. Ryan and Andrew M. Boxer, "Coming out in Primetime: The Mental Health Impact of Ellen's `Debut'."Cultural Diversity and Mental Health (1998).
Becky W. Thompson, "A Way Outta' No Way: Eating Problems among African American, Latina, and White Women."Race, Class, and Gender (1996).
Alisa L. Valdes, "Ruminations of a Feminist Aerobics Instructor."Listen Up!: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (1995).
Linda Villarosa, "Introduction."Body and Soul: The Black Women's Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Being. (1994).
Alice Walker, "Strong Horse Tea."In Love and Trouble (1973).
International Perspectives.
Ara Wilson and Adriane Livingston, Theme Introduction to International Perspectives.
Charlotte Bunch, "Transforming Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective."Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (1995).
Maryse Conde, "Three Women in Manhattan."Green Cane Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women (1991).
Rhonda Copelon, "Gendered War Crimes: Reconceptualizing Rape in Time of War."Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (1995).
Irene Dankelman and Joan Davidson, "Why Women?"Women and Environment in the Third World (1988).
Cynthia Enloe, "Gender Makes the World Go Round."Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (1989).
Claudia Garcia-Moreno, "AIDS: Women Are Not Just Transmitters."Changing Perceptions: Writings on Gender and Development (1991).
Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo, "Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-Immigrant Politics."Socialist Review. (1995).
Jeanne Hyvrard, "Opera Station. Six in the Evening. For Months ... ."Green Cane Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women (1991).
Nicholas D. Kristof, "Asian Childhoods Sacrificed to Prosperity's Lust."The New York Times (1996).
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, "Cultural Particularism as a Bar to Women's Rights: Reflections on the Middle Eastern Experience."Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives. (1995).
Rigoberta Menchu, "Things Have Happened to Me as in a Movie."You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile (1988).
* Farzaneh Milani, "The Deportation of Barbie from Iran."Iris (1999).
National Council for Research on Women, "Beyond Beijing."Issues Quarterly (1996).
National Council for Research on Women, "The Feminization of Immigration."Issues Quarterly (1996).
Bernice Johnson Reagon, "African Diaspora Women: The Making of Cultural Workers."Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (1987).
Claire Robertson, "Grassroots in Kenya: Women, Genital Mutilation, and Collective Action, 1920-1990."Signs (1996).
Elaine Maria Upton, "Born to the Struggle, Learning to Write: An Interview with Lindiwe Mabuza, Poet and Chief Representative of the African National Congress."Feminist Studies (1995).
Tina Wallace, "Taking the Lion by the Whiskers': Building on the Strengths of the Refugee Women."Changing Perceptions: Writings on Gender and Development (1991).
Language.
Birch Moonwomon-Baird, Theme Introduction to Language.
Michelle Quinn Cardall, "Can `He' Mean `She'? Exploring the Semantics of Political Correctness."The Blair Reader. (1994).
Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet, "Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-Based Practice."Annual Review of Anthropology (1992).
Alice Greenwood, "Children on Trial: Language Issues and Child Testimony."Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference (1994).
Kira Hall, "A Third-Sex Subversion of a Two-Gender System." Unpublished Paper (1994).
Audre Lorde, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action."Sinister Wisdom (1978).
Norma Mendoza-Denton, "Language Attitudes and Gang Affiliation among California Latina Girls."Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. (1994).
Marcyliena Morgan, "No Woman No Cry: The Linguistic Representation of African American Women."Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. (1994).
Patricia Nichols, "Linguistic Options and Choices for Black Women in the Rural South."Language, Gender, and Society. (1983).
Alleen Pace Nilsen, "Sexism in English: A 1990s Update."The Blair Reader (1994).
Amy Sheldon, "Pickle Fights: Gendered Talk in Preschool Disputes."Discourse Processes (1993).
* Leslie Mormon Silko, "Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective."Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit (1996).
Deborah Tannen, "The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance."Gender and Conversation Interaction (1993).
Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy Henley, "Language, Gender, and Society: Opening the Second Decade of Research."Language, Gender, and Society (1983).
Law and Legal Theory.
Carol Bohmer, Theme Introduction to Law and Legal Theory.
"Civil Rights Act, Title VII." (1964). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
"Comstock Law" (1873). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Conventions of 1848, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions."Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (1972).
"Equal Rights Amendment" (1972). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
"Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment" (1920). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers."Everyweek. (1917).
Alice Kessler-Harris, "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission versus Sears, Roebuck and Company: A Personal Account."Radical History Review (1986).
"The Law of Domestic Relations: Example from Colonial Connecticut, 1640-1702."Women's America: Refocusing the Past. (1995).
"Married Women's Property Acts, New York State" (1848, 1860). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
"Meritor Savings Bank versus Mechelle Vinson et al." (1986). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
"Roe versus Wade" (1973); Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania versus Casey. (1992). Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1995).
Judith Wellman, "The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks."Journal of Women's History. (1991).
Motherhood and Reproduction.
Sally L. Kitch, Theme Introduction to Motherhood and Reproduction.
Dorothy Allison, "Mama."Trash (1988).
Meera Chatterjee, "Creating Demand for Safe Motherhood."Choices.
Susan Chira, "Study Says Babies in Child Care Keep Secure Bonds to Mothers."The New York Times (1996).
Patricia Hill Collins, "Black Women and Motherhood."Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1991).
Cynthia R. Daniels, "Bodily Integrity and Forced Medical Treatment: The Case of Angela Carder."At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights (1993).
Angela Davis, "Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties."American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Reader (1993).
Marcia Ann Gillespie, "African-American Women Are for Reproductive Freedom."Conference Handout, Compliments of the National Black Woman's Self-Help Project, Atlanta, Georgia.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Unnatural Mother."The Forerunner (1916).
Faye Ginsburg, "From the Physicians' Campaign to Roe versus Wade."Contested Lives (1989).
Sarah Grimke, "On Voluntary Motherhood."Marriage, Weld Grimke Papers (1855).
Ellen Lewin, "Claims to Motherhood: Custody Disputes and Maternal Strategies."Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (1990).
* Ellen Lewin, "Natural Achievements: Lesbian Mothers in American Culture."Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (1993).
* Nancy Mairs, "On Being Raised by a Daughter."Plain Text: Essays by Nancy Mairs (1986).
Donald H. Regan, "Statement of Prof. Donald Regan, School of Law, University of Michigan."Congressional Hearings on the Constitutional Amendments Relating to Abortion (1981).
"Roe versus Wade." J. Ralph Lindgren and Nadine Taub, Eds. Laws of Sex Discrimination (1973).
Margaret Sanger, "Girl Mothers: Two," "Voices of the Children, Three, and Six," "The Pinch of Poverty, Eighteen," "Conclusion."Motherhood in Bondage (1928).
Margaret L. Usdansky, "Single Motherhood: Stereotypes versus Statistics."The New York Times (1996).
Patricia J. Williams, "The Unbearable Autonomy of Being."The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice (1995).
Politics, Government, and Public Policy.
Nancy D. Campbell, Theme Introduction to Politics, Government, and Public Policy.
Charles Frances Adams, from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution, with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams (1875).
Nijole V. Benokraitis and Joe R. Feagin, "Sex Discrimination in the 1990s: Progress and Illusions of Power."Modern Sexism: Blatant, Subtle, and Covert Discrimination (1995).
Barbara Christian, "Camouflaging Race and Gender."Representations (1996).
M. Margaret Conway, David W. Ahern, and Gertrude Steuernagel, "Historical Background of Child Care and Family Leave Issues."Women and Public Policy: A Revolution in Progress (1995).
Yla Eason, "When the Boss Wants Sex."Essence. (1981).
Lani Guinier and Karen Burstein "What's Fair?"Ms. (1995).
Thomas Herttell, "The Right of Married Women to Hold and Control Property."Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (1839).
Nan D. Hunter, "Banned in the USA: What the Hardwick Ruling Will Mean."The Village Voice (1986).
Lorraine Kenny, "Affirming Diversity: Building a National Community That Works." "Points of Law."Issues Quarterly. (1996).
Kimberly J. McLarin, "For the Poor, Defining Who Deserves What."The New York Times (1995).
Marci McNaghten, "A Sporting Chance for Women."Ohio State Quest (1994).
Teresa Riordan and Sue Kirchhoff, "Women on the Hill: Can They Make a Difference?"Ms. (1995).
Eric Schmitt, "War Is Hell. So Is Regulating Sex."The New York Times (1996).
Sue Woodman, "How Teen Pregnancy Has Become a Political Football."Ms. (1995).
Religion.
Martha L. Wharton,Theme Introduction to Religion.
Caroline Walker Bynum," ... And Woman His Humanity: Female Imagery in the Religious Writing of the Later Middle Ages."Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Redemption (1991).
Carol P. Christ, "Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections."Heresies (1982).
Sarah Grimke, "Woman's Place in Religion: Nineteenth Century Views."The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts (1837).
Ada Maria Isasi-Daz and Yolanda Tarango, "Prologue."Hispanic Women, Prophetic Voices in the Church (1992).
Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, "The Malleus Maleficarum." (1971).
Jarena Lee, "The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee."Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies. (1986).
Gloria Feman Orenstein, "Toward an Ecofeminist Ethic of Shamanism and the Sacred."Ecofeminism and the Sacred. (1993).
Elaine H. Pagels, "What Became of God the Mother?: Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity."Signs. (1976).
Judith Plaskow, "Epilogue: The Coming of Lilith."Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979).
Judith Plaskow, "The Coming of Lilith: Toward a Feminist Theology."Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion. (1979).
Letty M. Russell, "Introduction."The Liberating Word: A Guide to Nonsexist Interpretation of the Bible (1976).
Anne Wilson Schaef, "Introduction."Native Wisdom for White Minds." (1995).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Introduction."The Woman's Bible (1895).
Maria Stewart, "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston." (1833).
"The Trial of Anne Hutchinson." Excerpted from "Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson before the court at Newton, 1637."The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History (1637)
Phyllis Trible, "Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread."Andover Newton Quarterly (1973).
Linda Villarosa, "Revelations."Essence. (1995).
Delores S. Williams, "Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voices."Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality. (1989).
Terry Tempest Williams, "Burrowing Owls."Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991).
Science, Gender, and Technology.
Nancy D. Campbell and Ron Eglash, Theme Introduction to Science, Gender, and Technology.
Marcia Barinaga, "Is There a `Female Style' in Science?"Science (1993).
Marcia Barinaga, "Feminists Find Gender Everywhere in Science."Science (1993).
* Louis Bayard, "Computer Pioneers-Visible at Last!"Ms. (1998).
Geoffrey Cowley, "The Biology of Beauty."Newsweek. (1996).
Christine Gorman and J. Madeleine Nash, "Sizing Up the Sexes."Time. (January 20, 1992).
Christine Gorman, "Sizing Up the Sexes."Time. (1992).
Ruth Hubbard, "Rethinking Women's Biology."The Politics of Women's Biology (1990).
Ruth Hubbard, "Sexism and Sociobiology."Profitable Promises (1995).
Evelyn Fox Keller, "The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics."Working It Out (1977).
Gina Kolata, "Who Is Female: Science Can't Say."New York Times (1992).
Emily Martin, "Body Narratives, Body Boundaries."Cultural Studies (1992).
Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm."Signs. (1991).
Aimee Sands, "Never Meant to Survive (An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds)."Radical Teacher (1986).
* Nancy Tuana, "The Misbegotten Man."The Less Noble Sex (1993).
Sherry Turkle, "Tinysex and Gender Trouble."Life on the Screen (1995).
Sexualities.
Ara Wilson, Theme Introduction to Sexualities.
Natalie Angier, "Intersexual Healing: An Anomaly Finds a Group."The New York Times (1996).
Gloria Anzaldua, "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness."Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).
Bem, Ramazanoglu, Gill, and Walker, "Heterosexual Feminist Identities."Heterosexuality (1992).
Rebecca Chalker, "Updating the Model of Female Sexuality."SIECUS Report (1994).
Nancy F. Cott, "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850."Signs (1978).
* Simone de Beauvoir, from The Prime of Life (1960).
Jewelle Gomez, "I Lost It at the Movies."Testimonies: A Collection of Lesbian Coming out Stories (1988).
Evelynn M. Hammonds, "Towards a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence."Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1997).
Amber Hollibaugh, "Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure."Pleasure and Danger (1984).
Nan D. Hunter, "Contextualizing the Sexuality Debates: A Chronology."Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture. (1995).
* Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm."First National Women's Liberation Conference (1968).
* Meridel Le Sueur, "Fudge."Harvest and Song for My Time (1982).
Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference."Sister Outsider (1984).
Cherrie Moraga, "La Gueera."Loving in the War Years (1983).
Kathy Peiss, "`Charity Girls' and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920."Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1983).
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