SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Meg Luxton
Feminism As a Class Act: Working-Class Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Canada
Sharon Donna McIvor
Self-Government and Aboriginal Women
L. Pauline Rankin and Jill Vickers
Women’s Movements and State Feminism: Integrating Diversity into Public Policy
Emma Goldman
Marriage and Love
Simone de Beauvoir
Myth and Reality
Betty Friedan
The Crisis in Women’s Identity
Germaine Greer
The Middle-Class Myth of Love and Marriage
Gloria Steinem
Life between the Lines
Alice Walker
Womanist: A Letter to the Editor of MS
bell hooks
Feminism: A Transformational Politic
Samantha Sacks
Why Are You a Feminist?
Anne-Marie Kinahan
Women Who Run from the Wolves: Feminist Critique as Post-Feminism
SECTION TWO: DIVERSITY
Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Five Sexes, Revisited
Ruth Frankenberg
Growing Up White: Feminism, Racism, and the Social Geography of Childhood
Yvonne Bobb-Smith
Caribbean Feminism versus Canadian Feminism
Amita Handa
Modest and Modern: Women as Markers of the Indian Nation State
Makeda Silvera
Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians
SECTION THREE: SOCIALIZATION AND GENDER ROLES
Lois Gould
X–A Fabulous Child’s Story
Naomi Wolf
Nakedness: Pride and Shame
Andrea O’Reilly
Mothers, Daughters, and Feminism Today: Empowerment, Agency, Narrative, and Motherline
Michelle Hammer
How I Almost Killed My Mother in Childbirth
Margaret Cho
Crush Crash
Patricia Payette
The Feminist Wife? Notes from a Political “Engagement”
SECTION FOUR: IDENTITY, BODY, AND HEALTH
Kim Anderson
The Construction of a Negative Identity
Julie Glaser
Eat and Disorder
Kathleen LeBesco
Fat and Fabulous: Resisting Constructions of Female Body Ideals
Mariko Tamaki
Angry Naked Women
Inga Muscio
Blood and Cunts
Nancy Graham
Mother Root: Constant Craving
Carolyn Egan and Linda Gardner
Racism, Women’s Health, and Reproductive Freedom
Susan Sontag
The Double Standard of Aging
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman
Margaret Cruikshank
Gerastology: A Feminist’s View of Gerontology and Women’s Aging
SECTION FIVE: WORK
Jan Borowy, Shelly Gordon, and Gayle Lebans
Are These Clothes Clean? The Campaign for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers
Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
Class Is a Feminist Issue
Chris Bruckert
The World of the Professional Stripper
Himani Bannerji
In the Matter of “X”: Building “Race” into Sexual Harassment
SECTION SIX: THE CLASSROOM
Linda Briskin
Privileging Agency and Organizing: A New Approach for Women’s Studies
Viviane Namaste with Georgia Sitara
Inclusive Pedagogy in the Women’s Studies Classroom: Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case
Jean Bobby Noble
Queer Pedagogies of the Closet: Teaching Ignorances in the Heteronormative Classroom
SECTION SEVEN: POPULAR CULTURE
Janice Acoose
Discovering the Spark
Motion (Wendy Brathwaite)
Black Woman Rage
Adrienne Rich
Credo of a Passionate Skeptic
Margaret Atwood
Review of Diving into the Wreck
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Not a Moral Issue
Audre Lorde
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Angela Davis
Mama’s Got the Blues
SECTION EIGHT: PRAXIS–SOCIAL CHANGE
As told to Janet Silman
All for a Decent House
Harriet G. Rosenberg
From Trash to Treasure: Housewife Activists and the Environmental Justice Movement
Diane Driedger
Emerging from the Shadows: Women with Disabilities Organize
Neita Kay Israelite and Karen Swartz
Reformulating the Feminist Perspective: Giving Voice to Women with Disabilities
Joanne Cohen
Identity, Community, and Same-Sex Marriage
Beverly Smith
Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
Federation des femmes du Quebec 1999
2000 Good Reasons to March
Tammy C. Landau
Women’s Experiences with Mandatory Charging for Wife Assault in Ontario, Canada: A Case against the Prosecution
Cornelia Sollfrank
Women Hackers: A Report from the Mission to Locate Subversive Women on the Net
SECTION NINE: GLOBALISM
Lee-Anne Broadhead
The Gender Dimension to the Search for Global Justice
Naila Kabeer
Gender Equality and Human Development Outcomes: Enhancing Capabilities
Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
Ecofeminism
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