Gender and Women's Studies, Second Edition

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mapping the Terrain of Gender and Women’s Studies

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 AND SOUNDWAVES 1: Bad Feminist Manifesto, Roxane Gay
CHAPTER 3: Anishinaabe-kwe and/or Indigenous Feminist? Wanda Nanibush
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 2: 15 Indigenous Feminists to Know, Read, and Listen To, Abaki Beck
SNAPSHOTS AND 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 AND 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 AND SOUNDWAVES 5: Conceptualizing Intersectionality
SNAPSHOTS AND 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 AND 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
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 8: Unpaid Work: A Global View

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 AND 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 AND SOUNDWAVES 10: Imagining Disability Futures, Alison Kafer
ACTIVIST ART 2: Alison Lapper Pregnant, Marc Quinn
SNAPSHOTS AND 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 AND SOUNDWAVES 12: Understanding Masculinities: The Work of Raewyn Connell
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 13: It’s the Masculinity, Stupid! Jackson Katz and Jeremy Earp
CHAPTER 20: Gender in Personal Life, Raewyn Connell and Rebecca Pearse
SNAPSHOTS AND 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 AND 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 AND 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 AND SOUNDWAVES 17: Homophobia, Heterosexism and Heteronomativity
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 18: The “Fruit Machine,” Sherry Aske and Trevor Pritchard
CHAPTER 25: Loving Women in the Modern World, Leila J. Rupp
CHAPTER 26: Embodying Self-Determination: Beyond the Gender Binary, Sarah Hunt
CHAPTER 27: “Stand Up” for Exclusion? Queer Pride, Ableism and Inequality, Danielle Peers and Lindsay Eales

PART 3: GENDERED IDENTITIES

Part 3A: Thinking about Difference and Identity
CHAPTER 28: Stereotyping as a Signifying Practice, Stuart Hall
CHAPTER 29: Undoing the “Package Picture” of Cultures, Uma Narayan
ACTIVIST ART 4: Miss Canadiana, Camille Turner
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 19: How to Know if You Are White, Mia McKenzie
CHAPTER 30: Women’s Experience of Racism: How Race and Gender Interact, Marika Morris, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
CHAPTER 31: The Hall of Shame: Lies, Masks, and Respectful Femininity, Amita Handa
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 20: Activist Insight: Franchesca Ramsey on Microaggressions and Being an Ally

Part 3B: Histories and Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism
CHAPTER 32: The Secret of Slavery in Canada, Afua Cooper
ACTIVIST ART 5: You Are My Sunshine, Wangechi Mutu
CHAPTER 33: Black Women Rage, Wendy (Motion) Brathwaite
CHAPTER 34: The Construction of a Negative Identity, Kim Anderson
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 21: Colonization and the Indian Act
ACTIVIST ART 6: Indian Act, Nadia Myre
CHAPTER 35: Regulating Native Identity by Gender, Bonita Lawrence
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 22: Colonization and Residential Schools
ACTIVIST ART 7: Anishinaabe-kwe’s Resilience, Shirley Ida Williams nee Pheasant

Part 3C: Indigenous Women: Resistance and Resurgence
CHAPTER 36: Nishnaabeg Resurgence: Stories from Within, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
CHAPTER 37: The Braiding Histories Stories, Susan D. Dion and Michael R. Dion
CHAPTER 38: The Cattle Thief (1894),E. Pauline Johnson
CHAPTER 39: I Am Not Your Princess (1988), Chrystos
CHAPTER 40: “You Can’t Change the Indian Act?” Shirley Bear with the Tobique Women’s Group
CHAPTER 41: The Eagle Has Landed: Native Women, Leadership, and Community Development, Sylvia Maracle

PART 4: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND BODY POLITICS

Part 4A: Cultural Representations and the Creation of Desire
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 23: Gender Play: Marketing to Girls, Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown, and Peggy Orenstein
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 24: Ways of Seeing, John Berger
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 25: “Eating the Other”: Desire and Resistance, bell hooks
CHAPTER 42: Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility, Rosalind Gill
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 26: Disney’s Version of Girlhood, Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown
CHAPTER 43: The Trouble with White Feminism: Whiteness, Digital Feminism, and the Intersectional Internet, Jessie Daniels
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 27: Activist Insight: Suey Park #NotYourAsianSidekick

Part 4B: Regulating Bodies and Desires
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 28: If Men Could Menstruate: A Political Fantasy, Gloria Steinem
CHAPTER 44: 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 45: The Facilities, Ivan Coyote
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 29: The New Sex Ed, Forward Together

Part 4C: Beauty Projects: Conformity and Resistance
CHAPTER 46: Through the Mirror of Beauty Culture, Carla Rice
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 30: Activist Insight: Intersectional Body Activism
CHAPTER 47: 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 48: The Women’s Health Movement in Canada: Looking Back and Moving Forward, Madeline Boscoe, Gwynne Basen, Ghislaine Alleyne, Barbara Bourrier-Lacroic, and Susan White of the Canadian Women’s Health Network
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 31: Activist Insight: Our Bodies Ourselves
CHAPTER 49: Women, Disability, and the Right to Health, Paula C. Pinto SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 32: Understanding the Social Determinants of Health
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 33: How Sexism and Racism Determine Health
CHAPTER 50: First Peoples, Second Class Treatment, Billie Allan and Janet Smylie CHAPTER 51: HIV/AIDS, Globalization, and the International Women’s Movement, Sisonke Msimang

Part 4E: Reproductive Rights and Justice
CHAPTER 52: The Women Are Coming: The Abortion Caravan, Judy Rebick
CHAPTER 53: The Coercive Sterilization of Aboriginal Women in Canada, Karen Stote
CHAPTER 54: Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians, Alison Kafer
CHAPTER 55: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change, Loretta Ross, Rickie Solinger, and the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 34: Reproductive Rights around the World

Part 4F: Gender Violence
CHAPTER 56: Toronto and the Runaway Wives, Margo Goodhand
CHAPTER 57: The Ultimate Rape Victim, Jane Doe
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 35: Activist Insight: 10 Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence, Jackson Katz
CHAPTER 58: Digital Defense: Black Feminists Resist Violence with Hashtag Activism, Sherri Williams
CHAPTER 59: More Than a Poster Campaign: Redefining Colonial Violence, Sarah Hunt
SNAPSHOTS AND 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 AND SOUNDWAVES 37: Every Class in Every School, Catherine Taylor and Tracey Peter

PART 5: GENDERING GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, AND ACTIVISM

Part 5A: Gender and Global Restructuring
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 38: What Is Neo-Liberal Globalization? Alison Jaggar
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 39: The IMF: Violating Women since 1945, Christine Ahn and Kavita Ramdas
CHAPTER 60: The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica, Faye V. Harrison
CHAPTER 61: Women’s Labor is Never Cheap: Gendering Global Blue Jeans and Bankers, Cynthia Enloe
CHAPTER 62: Women behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America, STITCH and the Maquila Solidarity Network
CHAPTER 63: Trump and National Neoliberalism, Sasha Breger Bush

Part 5B: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 40: No One Is Illegal
CHAPTER 64: Undoing Border Imperialism, Harsha Walia and Jo-Anne Lee
CHAPTER 65: Immigrant Women in Canada and the United States, Leslie Nichols and Vappu Tyyskä
CHAPTER 66: The Door of No Return, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
CHAPTER 67: Seeking Refuge from Homophobic and Transphobic Persecution, Sharalyn Jordan and Christine Morrissey

Part 5C: On (Not) Getting by in North America
CHAPTER 68: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
CHAPTER 69: When Sex Works: Labour Solidarity for Sex Workers Has Come a Long Way, But More Can Be Done, Jenn Clamen and Kara Gillies
CHAPTER 70: We Speak for Ourselves: Anti-Colonial and Self-Determined Responses to Young People Involved in the Sex Trade, JJ and Ivo
CHAPTER 71: Factsheet: Women and Restructuring in Canada, Deborah Stienstra
CHAPTER 72: The Leaner, Meaner Welfare Machine: The Ontario Conservative Government’s Ideological and Material Attack on Single Mothers, Margaret Hillyard Little
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 41: Ontario Social Assistance Doesn’t Meet Basic Human Needs, Elaine Power
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 42: Homelessness in Canada
CHAPTER 73: Fast Facts: Four Things to Know about Women and Homelessness in Canada, Sadie McInnes
CHAPTER 74: The Little Voices of Nunavut: A Study of Women’s Homelessness North of 60, Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council

PART 6: ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE

Part 6A: Feminist and Social Justice Movements in North America
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 43: Activist Insight: The Idle No More Manifesto, Jessica Gordon and the Founders of Idle No More
CHAPTER 75: Idle No More: Indigenous Activism and Feminism, Sonja John
CHAPTER 76: How a Black Lives Matter Toronto Co-Founder Sees Canada, Zane Schwartz and Janaya Khan
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 44: 9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible, Kai Cheng Thom
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 45: A Sense of Place: Expressions of Trans Activism North of Lake Nipissing, Grey Kimber Piitaapan Muldoon, with Dan Irving
CHAPTER 77: The Future of Feminism, Judy Rebick
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 46: Activist Insight: This Country’s History Cannot Be Deleted, Angela Y. Davis

Part 6B: Transnational Feminisms: Challenges and Possibilities
CHAPTER 78: Transnational Feminism, Corrine L. Mason
CHAPTER 79: Defying, Producing, and Overlooking Stereotypes? The Complexities of Mobilizing “Grandmotherhood” as Political Strategy, May Chazan and Stephanie Kittmer
CHAPTER 80: How Young Feminists Are Tackling Climate Justice in 2016, Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Acha
ACTIVIST ART 10: Puna Kuakea, Joy Enomoto
CHAPTER 81: Feminisms and the Social Media Sphere, Mehreen Kasana
SNAPSHOTS AND SOUNDWAVES 47: Feminism without Borders

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