| Edition |
5th ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 676 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Sexual terrorism / Carole J. Sheffield -- Sexual harassment : the link joining gender stratification, sexuality, and women's economic status / Susan Ehrlich Martin -- Unwanted pregnancy and its resolution : options, implications / Nancy Felipe Russo and Jody D. Horn -- Treating health : women and medicine / Barbara Katz Rothman and Mary Beth Caschetta -- The sexual politics of interpersonal behavior / Nancy Henley and Jo Freeman -- Gender and families in the United States : the reality of economic dependence / Naomi Gerstel and Harriet Engel Gross -- Gender-role socialization : lessons in femininity / Hilary M. Lips -- Supermoms and second shifts : marital inequality in the 1990s / Janice M. Steil -- Motherhood : contemporary conflict for women / Michele Hoffnung -- Gray clouds and silver linings : women's resources in later life / Laurie Russell Hatch -- Women in the labor force / Nancy M. Thornborrow and Marianne B. Sheldon -- Women and higher education : gender differences in the status of students and scholars / Mary Frank Fox -- Women in blue-collar occupations : traditional and nontraditional / Brigid O'Farrell -- Clerical work : the female occupation / Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Roslyn L. Feldberg -- Professional women : how real are the recent gains? / Debra Renee Kaufman -- Beauty is the beast : psychological effects of the pursuit of the perfect female body / Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler -- Sex, lies, and advertising / Gloria Steinem -- Sexism and the English language : the linguistic implications of being a woman / Karen L. Adams and Norma C. Ware -- Pornography : conflict among feminists / Gloria Cowan -- The revolution for women in law and public policy / Jo Freeman -- A generation of change for women in politics / Ruth B. Mandel -- Out of order : a critical perspective on women in religion / Martha J. Reineke -- What price independence? Social reactions to lesbians, spinsters, widows, and nuns / Rose Weitz -- Poverty and welfare for women / Alice Abel Kemp -- Lady versus low creature : old roots of current attitudes toward homeless women / Stephanie Golden -- Feminists before feminism : origins and varities of women's protest in Europe and North America before the twentieth century / Marlene LeGates -- From suffrage to women's liberation : feminism in twentieth-century America / Jo Freeman -- Toward an Afra-American feminism / Carol Wayne White -- Keep us on the pedestal : women against feminism in twentieth-century America / Susan E. Marshall -- Misogynists, masculinist mentors, and male supporters : men's responses to feminism / Michael S. Kimmel -- The experiences of minority women in the United States : intersections of race, gender, and class / Elizabeth M. Almquist -- Feminist consciousness and black women / Pauline Terrelonge -- Chicana feminisms : their political context and contemporary expressions / Denise A. Segura and Beatriz M. Pesquera -- A cloak of many colors : Jewish feminism and feminist Jews in America / Ilsa M. Glazer -- Lesbian feminism and the feminist movement / Lisa Ransdell. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
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Feminism -- United States.
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Feminism. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Freeman, Jo.
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| ISBN |
1559341114 1559431114 |
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