| Description |
lv, 580 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Follow-up to: Sisterhood is powerful. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. SOME BASICS -- Biologically Correct / Natalie Angier -- Unfinished Agenda: Reproductive Rights / Faye Wattleton -- Running for our lives: Electoral politics / Pat Schroeder -- Traffic at the crossroads: Multiple Oppressions / Kimberle Crenshaw -- Landscape of the ordinary: Violence against women / Andrea Dworkin -- The proper study of womankine: Women's studies / Florence Howe -- Parenting: A new social contract / Suzanne Braun Levine -- Sisterhood is pleasurable: A quiet revolution in psychology / Carol Gilligan -- The media and the movement: A user's guide / Gloria Steinem -- -- Pt. 2. A MOVEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS -- Girls: "We are the ones who can make a change!" / New Moon Girls / Ana Grossman and Emma Peters-Axtell -- Generation "Why?": A call to arms / Jasmine Victoria -- Gen X survivor: From riot grrrl rock star to feminist artist / Kathleen Hanna -- Stealth feminists: The thirtysomething revolution / Debra Michals -- Notes of a feminist long distance runner / Eleanor Holmes Norton -- The politics of aging / Barbara Macdonald (Foreword by Cynthia Rich) -- -- Pt. 3. JUGGLING JEOPARDIES -- Native Americans: Restoring the power of thought woman / Clara Sue Kidwell -- African American Women: The legacy of black feminism / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Reclaiming the past, redefining the future: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women / Helen Zia -- U.S. Latinas: Active at the intersections of gender, nationality, race, and class / Edna Acosta-Belen and Christine E. Bose -- Confessions of a worrywart: Ruminations on a lesbian feminist overview / Karla Jay -- Poverty wears a female face / Theresa Funiciello -- Rights, Realities, and issues of women with disabilities / Laura Hershey -- Alive behind the labels: Women in prison / Kathy Boudin and Roslyn D. Smith -- -- Pt. 4. BODIES POLITIC -- Our bodies, our future: Women's health activism overview / Judy Norsigian et al., for The Boston Women's Health Book Collective -- Women in sports: What's the score? / Barbara Findlen -- The nature of the beast: Sexual harassment / Anita Hill -- From fantasy to reality: Unmasking the pornography industry / Gail Dines -- Prostitution = Slavery / Vednita Carter -- -- Pt. 5. WORKPLACES -- Transforming traditions and breaking barriers: Six personal testimonies -- Transforming Traditions -- Nurses, Teachers, Flight Attendants -- Breaking Barriers -- Firefighters, Hard Hats, Computer Programmers, "Just a Housewife?!" / Helen Drusine -- The clerical proletariat / Ellen Bravo (9 to 5 Association) -- Pink collar ghetto, blue collar token / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Rural Women: Sustaining farms, feeding people / Carolyn Sachs -- Diagnosis and Prognosis: Women physicians and women's health / Wendy Chavkin, M.D.,M.P.H. -- Up and down labyrinth: Ins and outs of women's corporate and campus careers / Ellen Appel-Bronstein -- Changing a masculine culture: Women in science, engineering, and technology / Donna M. Hughes -- Climbing the ivory walls: Women in academia / Jane Roland Martin -- Redefining the warrior mentality: Women in the military / Claudia J. Kennedy (Lt. Gen., Ret.) Standing by: Women in broadcast media / Carol Jenking -- Theater: A sacred home for women / Eve Ensler -- Women and the art world: Diary of the feminist masked avengers / Kathe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, Founding Members of the Guerrilla Girls -- -- Pt. 6. TACTICS AND TRENDS -- Women and law: The power to change / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Owning the future: Women entrepreneurs / Sara K. Gould -- Combating the religious right / Cecile Richards -- Dancing against the vatican / Frances Kissling -- Front Line: The funding struggle / Marie Wilson -- Bitch, Chick, Cow: Women's and (other) animals' rights / Carol J. Adams -- Update: Feminism and the environment / Paula DiPerna -- -- Pt. 7. POLITICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- Cyberfeminism: Networking the net / Amy Richards and Marianne Schnall -- Globalization: A strategic advance for feminism? / Jessica Neuwirth -- Why peace is (more than ever) a feminist issue / Grace Paley -- The art of building feminist institutions to last / Eleanor Smeal -- Inner Space: The spiritual frontier / Margot Adler -- Outer Space: The worldly frontier / Mae C. Jemison, M.D. -- -- PERSONAL POSTSCRIPTS -- To vintage feminists / Robin Morgan -- To younger women / Robin Morgan. |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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Sociology. |
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Essays -- Women's issues.
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Essays. |
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Women's studies.
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Women's studies. |
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Women's rights -- United States.
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Women's rights. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Morgan, Robin, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0743466276 paperback |
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