Women's studies : essential readings

INTRODUCTION : ABOUT THE READER -- Feminist social theory / Stevi Jackson - INTRODUCTION - The dialectic of sex / Shulamith Firestone -- Psychoanalysis and feminism / Juliet Mitchell -- Women´s oppression today / Michèle Barrett -- The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism / Heidi Hartmann -- Sex classes / Christine Delphy -- Forms and degrees of patriarchy / Sylvia Walby -- Editorial, m/f1 / Parveen Adams, Rosaline Coward, Elizabeth Cowie -- Posmodernism and gender relations in feminist theory / Jane Flax -- Women: equal or different / Luce Irigaray -- One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig -- White women listen! / Hazel Carby -- Am I that name? / Denise Riley -- Feminism without women / Tania Modleski -- Recovering ´women´ in history from historical deconstructionism / Liz Stanley -- Questions of difference and
international feminism / Avtar Brah -- WOMEN´S MINDS : PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY / JANE PRINCE -- INTRODUCTION -- Autonomy and identity in feminist thinking / Jean Grimshaw -- Male mind and female nature / Wendy Hollway -- Significant differences : feminism in psychology / Corinne Squire -- Femininity as performance / Valerie Walkerdine -- Family structure and feminine personality / Nancy Chodorow -- Sexual politics / Kate Millett -- Psychoanalysis and
feminism / Juliet Mitchell -- ´Introduction II´ to feminine sexuality : Jaques Lacan and the école freudienne / Jacqueline Rose -- Lacan in contexts / David Macey -- CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN´S LIVES / TERI BREWER -- INTRODUCTION -- Human fatherhood is a social invention / Margaret Mead -- The position of women in primitive societies and in our own / Edward Evans-Pritchard -- Is female to male as nature is to culture? / Sherry Ortner -- Nature, culture and gender : a critique / Carol McCormack -- Female power and male dominance : on the origins of sexual inequality / Peggy Reeves Sanday -- The use and abuse of anthropology : reflections on feminism and cross-cultural understanding / Michelle Rosaldo -- Feminism and anthropology / Henrietta Moore -- Childhood (1904-1922) / Akemi Kikumura -- Jewish comes up in you from the roots / Barbara Myerhoff -- The romance of resistance : tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN´S LIVES -- INTRODUCTION -- Women workers and the industrial revolution 1750-1850 / Ivy Pinchbeck -- Gender divisions and class formations in the birmingham middle class, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall -- Hidden from history : three hundred years of women´s oppression and the fight against it / Sheila Rowbotham -- By the sweat of their brow : women workers at Victorian coal mines / Angela V. John -- ´Mind that you do as you are told´: reading books for board school girls, 1870-1902 / Anna Davin -- Working-class wives / Margery Spring Rice -- The politics of motherhood : child and maternal welfare in England, 1900-1939 / Jane Lewis -- Back to home and duty : women between
the wars 1918-1939 / Deirdre Beddoe -- The cause / Ray Strachey -- The suffragette movement / Sylvia Pankhurst -- The spinster and her enemies : feminism and sexuality 1880-1930 / Sheila Jeffreys -- WOMEN, EDUCATION AND WORK / JANE PRINCE -- INTRODUCTION -- Unequal work / Veronica Beechey -- Women´s oppression today / Michèle Barrett -- Sex, class and socialism / Lidsay German -- The class struggle in the ancient greek world / Geoffrey de Ste Croix -- The mastery of reason / Valerie Walkerdine -- Social semiotics / Robert Hodge, Gunther Kress -- Academics / John McCauley -- Women managers : travelers in a male world / Judi Marshall -- Joining Forces / Nigel Fielding -- Private experiences in the public domain : lesbians in organizations / Marny Hall -- Young, female and black / Heidi Mirza -- MARRIAGE AND MOTHERHOOD / SUE FAULKNER, STEVI JACKSON -- INTRODUCTION -- Domestic labourers, or stand by your man -- while he sits down and has a cup of tea / Sallie Westwood -- The elements of the patriarchal mode of production / Sylvia Walby -- Women, food and families / Nickie Charles Marion Kerr -- Solving problems and airling feelings / Penny Mansfield, Jean Collard -- Gender roles and ´moral economy of kin´among Pakistani women in west Yorkshire / Haleh Afshar -- What are feminist perspectives on wife abuse? / Michele Bograd -- Becoming a mother / Ann Oakley -- Taking it like a woman / Ann Oakley -- To be or not to be : the dilemmas of mothering / Sheila Rowbotham -- Managing mothers / Julia Brannen, Peter Moss -- Narrow definitions of culture : the
case of early motherhood / Ann Phoenix -- Perspectives on later motherhood / Julia Berryman -- Issues related to motherhood / Anne Wollet, Ann Phoenix -- Lesbian custody and the new myth of the father / Lynne Harne -- Black women, sexism and racism / Gemma Tang Naim -- SEXUALITY / STEVI JACKSON -- INTRODUCTION -- Foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power / Sandra Bartky -- This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray -- The challenge of AIDS / Diane Richardson -- Understanding sexual violence / Diane Scully -- Black feminist thought / Patricia Collins -- Bureaucracy, rationality and sexuality / Rosemary Pringle -- Difference, desire and sadomasochism / Susan Ardill, Sue O´Sullivan -- Anticlimax / Sheila Jeffreys -- Ten years on : ´compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence´/ Deborah Cameron -- Women and the law / Helen Power -INTRODUCTION - Sexism and the law / Albie Sachs, Joan Hoff Wilson -- Female sexuality and the law / Susan Edwards -- Sexual divisions in law / Katherine O´Donovan -- On collaboration / Catherine MacKinnon -- There should be a law against it … shouldn´t there? / Wendy Moore -- Pornography and feminism : the case against censorship / Gillian Rodgerson, Elizabeth Wilson -- Feminism and the power of law / Carol Smart -- Women, crime and deviance / Anthea Hucklesbi - INTRODUCTION -- Crime and society / Frances Heidensohn --
Women and crime / Frances Heidensohn -- Women, crime, feminism and realism / Pat Carlen -- Sex, class and crime / Jeanne Gregory -- Criminal women and criminal justice : the limits to, and potential of, feminist and left realist perspective / Pat Carlen -- Sex, class and crime / Jeanne Gregory -- The criminalization of women / Kathryn Chadwick, Catherine Little -- Women and crime / Frances Heidensohn -- Criminal women and criminal justice : the limits to, and potential of, feminist and left realist perspective / Pat Carlen -- Sex, class and crime / Jeanne Gregory -- Public/Private : women, politics and the state / Rose Pearson - INTRODUCTION -- Given the odds, a great advance / Margaret Stacey, Marion Price -- Policing : the under-representation of women´s interest / Susan Edwards -- The birth limitation program : family vs state / Margery Wolf -- Policing the family / Peter Squires -- Women and the strike : it´s a whole way of life / Jill Evans, Clare Hudson, Penny Smith -- Body/politics : our bodies triumphed / Alison Young -- Sciencie, medicine and reproductive technologie / Stevi Jackson, Jane Prince , Pauline Young - INTRODUCTION - Life in the XY corral / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Society writes biology / Ruth
Herschberger -- Natural facts : an historical perspective on science and sexuality / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Managing female minds / Elaine Showalter -- The women in the body / Emily Martin -- Who needs PMT? / Sophie Laws -- Managers and labourers : women´s attitudes to reproductive technology / Frances Evans -- The reproductive brothel / Gena Corea -- Disciplining mothers : feminism and the new reproductive technologies / Jana Sawicki -- New reproductive technologies
/ Christine Delphy -- Language and gender / Karen Atkinson - INTRODUCTION - Language and reality : who made the world? / Dale Spender -- Gender-based language reform and the social construction of meaning / Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King -- Language and woman´s place / Robin Lakoff -- Gender, power and miscommunication / Nancy M. Henley, Cheris Kramarae -- Lakoff in context : the social and linguistic functions of tag questions / Deborah Cameron, Fiona McAlinden, Kathy O´Leary -- Gossip revisited / Jennifer Coates -- Feminist literay criticism / Pauline Young - INTRODUCTION -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Sexual politics / Kate Millestt -- The madwoman in the attic / Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar -- On lies, secrets and silences / Adrienne Rich -- Silences / Tillie Olsen -- A literature of their own / Elaine Showalter -- Archetypal patterns in women´s fiction / Annis Pratt -- Writing the body : towards an understanding of l´écriture féminine / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Toward a black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith -- Feminist criticism / Maggie Humm -- Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern / Patricia Waugh -- Representation of women in the media / Michele Ryan -- Female spectators / E. Deidre Pribram -- Reading the romance / Janice Radway -- The pornography of representation / Susanne Kappeler -- The power of the image / Annette Kuhn -- ´A question of silence´/ Jeannette Murphy -- The status of women working in film and television / Anne Ross Muir – Women audiences and the workplace / Dorothy Hobson -- Women and television : an overview / Gillian Dyer -- Women and soap opera / Christine Geraghty - NOTES CONTRIBUTORS - LIST OF SOURCES - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - INDEX