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Introduction: Mapping the Terrain of Gender and Women’s Studies
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PART 1: FOUNDATIONS: WHY GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES? WHY FEMINISM?
Part 1A: This Is What a Feminist Looks Like
CHAPTER 1: Excerpts from Feminism Is for Everybody – bell hooks
CHAPTER 2: What’s Feminism Done (For Me) Lately? – Victoria L. Bromley
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 1: Bad Feminist Manifesto – Roxane Gay
CHAPTER 3: Anishinaabe-kwe and/or Indigenous Feminist? – Wanda Nanibush
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 2: 15 Indigenous Feminists to Know, Read, and Listen To – Abaki Be
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 3: Activist Insight: Alice Walker (1944–)
CHAPTER 4: The Historical Case for Feminism – Estelle Freedman
CHAPTER 5: This Is What a Feminist Looks Like – Shira Tarrant
Part 1B: Diversity and Intersectionality
CHAPTER 6: Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait – Kimberlé Crenshaw
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 4: The Dangers of a Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CHAPTER 7: The Myth of Shared Womanhood and How It Perpetuates Inequality – Mia McKenzie
CHAPTER 8: Intersectional Feminist Frameworks: A Primer – Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 5: Conceptualizing Intersectionality
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 6: Activist Insight: Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
CHAPTER 9: Reformulating the Feminist Perspective: Giving Voice to Women with Disabilities – Neita Kay Israelite and Karen Swartz
Part 1C: Accounting for Inequalities
CHAPTER 10: The Question of Gender – Raewyn Connell and Rebecca Pearse
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 7: Because It’s 2016! – Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
CHAPTER 11: Conceptual Guide to the Unpaid Work Module – Marion Werner, Leah F. Vosko, Angie Deveau, Giordana Pimentel, and Deatra Walsh, with past contributions from Abetha Mahalingam, Nancy Zukewich, Krista Scott-Dixon, Megan Ciurysek, and Vivian Ngai
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 8: Unpaid Work: A Global View
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PART 2: CONSTRUCTIONS OF SEX AND GENDER
Part 2A: The Construction of Sexed Bodies
CHAPTER 12: Introduction to Beyond the Natural Body – Nelly Oudshoorn
ACTIVIST ART 1: Assigned Male – Sophie Labelle
CHAPTER 13: How the Practice of Sex-Testing Targets Female Olympic Athletes – Kate Allen
CHAPTER 14: Contesting Intersex – Georgiann Davis
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 9: Defining Genitals: Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed?
CHAPTER 15: Dueling Dualisms – Anne Fausto-Sterling
Part 2B: The Making of “Difference” and Inequalities
CHAPTER 16: Women’s Brains – Stephen Gould
CHAPTER 17: Freaks and Queers – Eli Clare
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 10: Imagining Disability Futures – Alison Kafer
ACTIVIST ART 2: Alison Lapper Pregnant – Marc Quinn
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 11: On Race and Racism
CHAPTER 18: Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? – Lila Abu-Lughod
ACTIVIST ART 3: Technicolor Muslimah – Saba Taj
Part 2C: Gender Construction and Performativity
CHAPTER 19: X: A Fabulous Child’s Story – Lois Gould
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 12: Understanding Masculinities: The Work of Raewyn Connell
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 13: It’s the Masculinity, Stupid! – Jackson Katz and Jeremy Earp
CHAPTER 20: Gender in Personal Life – Raewyn Connell and Rebecca Pearse
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 14: Transfeminist Terms and Concepts – A. Finn Enke
CHAPTER 21: Between the Village and the Village People: Negotiating Community, Ethnicity, and Safety in Gender Fluid Parenting – May Friedman
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 15: Men and Feminism – The White Ribbon Campaign
CHAPTER 22: Troubling Genders, Subverting Identities: An Interview with Judith Butler – Vasu Reddy and Judith Butler
Part 2D: The Construction of Sexuality
CHAPTER 23: Becoming 100 Percent Straight – Michael A. Messner
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 16: The Heterosexual Questionnaire – Martin Rochlin
CHAPTER 24: The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation – Udo Schüklenk, Edward Stein, Jacinta Kerin, and William Byne
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 17: Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Heteronormativity
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 18: The “Fruit Machine” – Sherry Aske and Trevor Pritchard
CHAPTER 25: Loving Women in the Modern World – Leila J. Rupp
CHAPTER 26: “Stand Up” for Exclusion? Queer Pride, Ableism, and Inequality – Danielle Peers and Lindsay Eales
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PART 3: GENDERED IDENTITIES
Part 3A: Thinking about Difference and Identity
CHAPTER 27: Stereotyping As a Signifying Practice – Stuart Hall
CHAPTER 28: Undoing the “Package Picture” of Cultures – Uma Narayan
ACTIVIST ART 4: Miss Canadiana – Camille Turner
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 19: How to Know If You Are White – Mia McKenzie
CHAPTER 29: Women’s Experience of Racism: How Race and Gender Interact – Marika Morris, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
CHAPTER 30: The Hall of Shame: Lies, Masks, and Respectful Femininity – Amita Handa
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 20: Activist Insight: Franchesca Ramsey on Microaggressions and Being an Ally
Part 3B: Histories and Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism
CHAPTER 31: The Secret of Slavery in Canada – Afua Cooper
ACTIVIST ART 5: You Are My Sunshine – Wangechi Mutu
CHAPTER 32: Black Women Rage – Wendy Brathwaite
CHAPTER 33: The Construction of a Negative Identity – Kim Anderson
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 21: Colonization and the Indian Act
ACTIVIST ART 6: Indian Act – Nadia Myre
CHAPTER 34: Regulating Native Identity by Gender – Bonita Lawrence
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 22: Colonization and Residential Schools
ACTIVIST ART 7: Anishinaabe-kwe’s Resilience – Shirley Ida Williams née Pheasant
Part 3C: Indigenous Women: Resistance and Resurgence
CHAPTER 35: Nishnaabeg Resurgence: Stories from Within – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
CHAPTER 36: The Braiding Histories Stories – Susan D. Dion and Michael R. Dion
CHAPTER 37: The Cattle Thief (1894) – E. Pauline Johnson
CHAPTER 38: I Am Not Your Princess (1988) – Chrystos
CHAPTER 39: “You Can’t Change the Indian Act?” – Shirley Bear with the Tobique Women’s Group
CHAPTER 40: The Eagle Has Landed: Native Women, Leadership, and Community Development – Sylvia Maracle
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PART 4: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND BODY POLITICS
Part 4A: Cultural Representations and the Creation of Desire
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 23: Gender Play: Marketing to Girls – Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown, and Peggy Orenstein
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 24: Ways of Seeing – John Berger
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 25: “Eating the Other”: Desire and Resistance – bell hooks
CHAPTER 41: Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility – Rosalind Gill
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 26: Disney’s Version of Girlhood – Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown
CHAPTER 42: The Trouble with White Feminism: Whiteness, Digital Feminism, and the Intersectional Internet – Jessie Daniels
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 27: Activist Insight: Suey Park #NotYourAsianSidekick
Part 4B: Regulating Bodies and Desires
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 28: If Men Could Menstruate: A Political Fantasy – Gloria Steinem
CHAPTER 43: Why Is America So Obsessed with Virginity? – Anastasia Kousakis and Jessica Valenti
ACTIVIST ART 8: CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws and Άδάμας (unconquerable) – Sophia Wallace
CHAPTER 44: The Facilities – Ivan Coyote
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 29: The New Sex Ed – Forward Together
Part 4C: Beauty Projects: Conformity and Resistance
CHAPTER 45: Through the Mirror of Beauty Culture – Carla Rice
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 30: Activist Insight: Intersectional Body Activism
CHAPTER 46: Body Beautiful/Body Perfect: Where Do Women with Disabilities Fit In? – Francine Odette
Part 4D: Politics of Health: From Medicalization to Health Care Reform
CHAPTER 47: The Women’s Health Movement in Canada: Looking Back and Moving Forward – Madeline Boscoe, Gwynne Basen, Ghislaine Alleyne, Barbara Bourrier-Lacroix, and Susan White of the Canadian Women’s Health Network
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 31: Activist Insight: Our Bodies Ourselves
CHAPTER 48: Women, Disability, and the Right to Health – Paula C. Pinto
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 32: Understanding the Social Determinants of Health
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 33: How Sexism and Racism Determine Health
CHAPTER 49: First Peoples, Second Class Treatment – Billie Allan and Janet Smylie
CHAPTER 50: HIV/AIDS, Globalization, and the International Women’s Movement – Sisonke Msimang
Part 4E: Reproductive Rights and Justice
CHAPTER 51: The Women Are Coming: The Abortion Caravan – Judy Rebick
CHAPTER 52: The Coercive Sterilization of Aboriginal Women in Canada – Karen Stote
CHAPTER 53: Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians – Alison Kafer
CHAPTER 54: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change – Loretta Ross, Rickie Solinger, and the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 34: Reproductive Rights around the World
Part 4F: Gender Violence
CHAPTER 55: Toronto and the Runaway Wives – Margo Goodhand
CHAPTER 56: The Ultimate Rape Victim – Jane Doe
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 35: Activist Insight: 10 Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence – Jackson Katz
CHAPTER 57: Digital Defense: Black Feminists Resist Violence with Hashtag Activism – Sherri Williams
CHAPTER 58: More Than a Poster Campaign: Redefining Colonial Violence – Sarah Hunt
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 36: Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women and Girls – Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
ACTIVIST ART 9: Walking With Our Sisters
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 37: Every Class in Every School – Catherine Taylor and Tracey Peter
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PART 5: GENDERING GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, AND ACTIVISM
Part 5A: Gender and Global Restructuring
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 38: What Is Neo-Liberal Globalization? – Alison Jaggar
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 39: The IMF: Violating Women Since 1945 – Kavita Ramdas and Christine Ahn
CHAPTER 59: The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica – Faye V. Harrison
CHAPTER 60: Women’s Labor Is Never Cheap: Gendering Global Blue Jeans and Bankers – Cynthia Enloe
CHAPTER 61: Women behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America – STITCH and the Maquila Solidarity Network
CHAPTER 62: Trump and National Neoliberalism – Sasha Breger Bush
Part 5B: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 40: No One Is Illegal
CHAPTER 63: Undoing Border Imperialism – Harsha Walia and Jo-Anne Lee
CHAPTER 64: Immigrant Women in Canada and the United States – Leslie Nichols and Vappu Tyyskä
CHAPTER 65: The Door of No Return – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
CHAPTER 66: Seeking Refuge from Homophobic and Transphobic Persecution – Sharalyn Jordan and Christine Morrissey
Part 5C: On (Not) Getting By in North America
CHAPTER 67: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America – Barbara Ehrenreich
CHAPTER 68: When Sex Works: Labour Solidarity for Sex Workers Has Come a Long Way, but More Can Be Done – Jenn Clamen and Kara Gillies
CHAPTER 69: We Speak for Ourselves: Anti-Colonial and Self-Determined Responses to Young People Involved in the Sex Trade – JJ and Ivo
CHAPTER 70: Factsheet: Women and Restructuring in Canada – Deborah Stienstra
CHAPTER 71: The Leaner, Meaner Welfare Machine: The Ontario Conservative Government’s Ideological and Material Attack on Single Mothers – Margaret Hillyard Little
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 41: Ontario Social Assistance Doesn’t Meet Basic Human Needs – Elaine Power
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 42: Homelessness in Canada
CHAPTER 72: Fast Facts: Four Things to Know about Women and Homelessness in Canada – Sadie McInnes
CHAPTER 73: The Little Voices of Nunavut: A Study of Women’s Homelessness North of 60 – Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council
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PART 6: ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE
Part 6A: Feminist and Social Justice Movements in North America
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 43: Activist Insight: The Idle No More Manifesto – Jessica Gordon and the Founders of Idle No More
CHAPTER 74: Idle No More: Indigenous Activism and Feminism – Sonja John
CHAPTER 75: How a Black Lives Matter Toronto Co-Founder Sees Canada – Zane Schwartz and Janaya Khan
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 44: 9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible – Kai Cheng Thom
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 45: A Sense of Place: Expressions of Trans Activism North of Lake Nipissing – Grey Kimber Piitaapan Muldoon, with Dan Irving
CHAPTER 76: The Future of Feminism – Judy Rebick
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 46: Activist Insight: This Country’s History Cannot Be Deleted – Angela Y. Davis
Part 6B: Transnational Feminisms: Challenges and Possibilities
CHAPTER 77: Transnational Feminism – Corinne L. Mason
CHAPTER 78: Defying, Producing, and Overlooking Stereotypes? The Complexities of Mobilizing “Grandmotherhood” as Political Strategy – May Chazan and Stephanie Kittmer
CHAPTER 79: How Young Feminists Are Tackling Climate Justice in 2016 – Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Acha
ACTIVIST ART 10: Puna Kuakea – Joy Enomoto
CHAPTER 80: Feminisms and the Social Media Sphere – Mehreen Kasana
SNAPSHOTS & SOUNDWAVES 47: Feminism without Borders
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