Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Foundations; Why Gender And Women's Studies? Why
Feminism?
- Part 1A: This Is What a Feminist Looks Like
- Chapter 1: You're a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear, Jessica
Valenti
- Supplement 1: Top 10 Feminist Stereotypes
- Chapter 2: Introduction to Feminism Is for Everybody, bell
hooks
- Chapter 3: Feminism Is for Everybody: Aboriginal Women,
Feminism, and Diversity, Verna St. Denis
- Supplement 2: Activist Insight: Alice Walker (1944-)
- Chapter 4: The Historical Case for Feminism, Estelle
Freedman
- Part 1B: Diversity and Intersectionality
- Chapter 5: Intersectional Feminist Frameworks: A Primer,
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
(CRIAW)
- Supplement 3: Intersectionality Wheel Diagram
- Supplement 4: Activist Insight: Sojourner Truth
(1797-1883)
- Chapter 6: Reformulating the Feminist Perspective: Giving Voice
to Women with Disabilities, Neita Kay Israelite and Karen
Swartz
- Chapter 7: Overview and Introductions: This Is What a Feminist
Looks Like, Shira Tarmant
- Part 1C: Women's Status, Women's Rights
- Chapter 8: Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action 15 Years On, Canadian Feminist
Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and Canadian Labour
Congress (CLC)
- Supplement 5: Race and Income Inequality in Canada: A Troubling
Trend
- Supplement 6: Unpaid Work: A Global View
- Chapter 9: Unpaid Workers: The Absence of Rights, Marilyn
Waring
- Chapter 10: Don't Blame Mother: Then and Now, Paula Caplan
- Part 2: Constructions Of Sex And Gender
- Part 2A: The Social and Historical Construction of Sexed
Bodies
- Supplement 7: Sex = Gender?
- Chapter 11: Introduction to Beyond the Natural Body, Nelly
Oudshoorn
- Chapter 12: The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed
a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, Emily
Martin
- Supplement 8: Where's the Rulebook for Sex Verification? Alice
Dreger
- Chapter 13: Dueling Dualisms, Anne Fausto-Sterling
- Supplement 9: Defining Genitals: Who Will Make Room for the
Intersexed?
- Part 2B: The Making of ""Difference"" and Inequalities
- Chapter 14: Women's Brains, Stephen Gould
- Chapter 15: Freaks and Queers, Eli Clare
- Supplement 10: 10 Things Everyone Should Know about Race
- Supplement 11: Racism in Canada: A Timeline
- Part 2C: The Social Construction of Gender
- Chapter 16: X: A Fabulous Child's Story, Lois Gould
- Supplement 12: Understanding Masculinities: The Work of R.W.
Connell
- Chapter 17: ""No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!""
Parents' Responses to Children's Gender Nonconformity, Emily W.
Kane
- Supplement 13: Guide to Intersex and Trans Terminologies,
Survivor Project
- Chapter 18: Transgender Rights, Riki Wilchins
- Supplement 14: Activist Insight: Men and Feminism, The White
Ribbon Campaign
- Part 2D: The Social Construction of Sexuality
- Chapter 19: Becoming 100 Percent Straight, Michael A.
Messner
- Supplement 15: The Heterosexual Questionnaire, Martin
Rochlin
- Chapter 20: The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual
Orientation, Udo Schuklenk, Edward Stein, Jacinta Kerin, and
William Byne
- Supplement 16: Activist Insight: Homophobia and
Heterosexism
- Chapter 21: Loving Women in the Modern World, Leila J.
Rupp
- Chapter 22: Man-Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the
Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians, Makeda Silvera
- Part 3: Gendered Identities
- Part 3A: Thinking about Difference and Identity
- Chapter 23: Stereotyping as a Signifying Practice, Stuart
Hall
- Chapter 24: Undoing the ""Package Picture"" of Cultures, Uma
Narayan
- Chapter 25: The Hall of Shame: Lies, Masks, and Respectful
Femininity, Amita Hamda
- Part 3B: Histories and Legacies of Colonialism and
Imperialism
- Chapter 26: Women's Experience of Racism: How Race and Gender
Interact, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
(CRIAW)
- Chapter 27: The Secret of Slavery in Canada, Afua Cooper
- Chapter 28: Black Women Rage, Wendy Braithwaite
- Chapter 29: The Construction of a Negative Identity, Kim
Anderson
- Supplement 17: Colonization and the Indian Act
- Chapter 30: Regulating Native Identity by Gender, Bonita
Lawrence
- Supplement 18: Colonization and Residential Schools
- Part 3C: Aboriginal Women: Agency, Creativity, and
Strength
- Chapter 31: Cattle Thief, Pauline E. Johnson
- Chapter 32: I Am Not Your Princess, Chrystos
- Chapter 33: ""You Can't Change the Indian Act?"" Shirley Bear
with the Tobique Women's Group
- Chapter 34: 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
- Supplement 19: Fast Facts about Sexualization and Marketing to
Girls, Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown
- Chapter 35: Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular
Culture, Sut Jhally
- Supplement 20: Disney's Version of Girlhood, Sharon Lamb and
Lyn Mikel Brown
- Supplement 21: Questions for Critical Viewing, Sharon Lamb and
Lyn Mikel Brown
- Chapter 36: Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha-Cha Divas:
Race, Beauty, and the Tyranny of Tyra Banks, Jennifer L.
Pozner
- Supplement 22: Activist Insight: Fun with Media Literacy,
Jennifer L. Pozner
- Supplement 23: Gender Play, Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel
Brown
- Part 4B: Regulating Women's Bodies and Desires
- Supplement 24: If Men Could Menstruate: A Political Essay,
Gloria Steinem
- Chapter 37: The Cult of Virginity, Jessica Valenti
- Chapter 38: Introduction to Our Schools Our Selves, Jessica
Yee
- Supplement 25: Activist Insight: The New Sex Ed, Asian
Communities for Reproductive Justice
- Chapter 39: Sugar and Spice and Something More Than Nice? Queer
Girls and Transformations of Social Exclusion, Marnina Gonick
- Part 4C: Beauty Projects: Conformity and Resistance
- Chapter 40: Exacting Beauty: Exploring Women's Body Projects
and Problems in the 21st Century, Carla Rice
- Chapter 41: Fat and Fabulous: Resisting Constructions of Female
Body Ideals, Kathleen LeBesco
- Chapter 42: Body Beautiful/Body Perfect: Where Do Women with
Disabilities Fit In? Francine Odette
- Chapter 43: ""We Need a Theoretical Base"": Cynthia Rich,
Women's Studies, and Ageism: An Interview, Valerie Barnes
Lipscomb
- Supplement 26: The Beast of Beauty: Toxic Ingredients in
Cosmetics
- Part 4D: Politics of Women's Health: From Medicalization to
Health Care Reform
- Chapter 44: Introduction to Women and Health: Power,
Technology, Inequality, and Conflict in a Gendered World, Kathryn
S. Ratcliff
- Supplement 27: Activist Insight: Our Bodies, Ourselves
- Chapter 45: Racism, Women's Health, and Reproductive Freedom,
Carolyn Egan and Linda Gardner
- Chapter 46: Women, Disability, and the Right to Health, Paula
C. Pinto
- Supplement 28: Understanding the Social Determinants of
Health
- Supplement 29: How Sexism and Racism Determine Health
- Chapter 47: HIV/AIDS, Globalization, and the International
Women's Movement, Sisonke Msimang
- Part 4E: Social Status and Reproductive Rights
- Chapter 48: The Women Are Coming: The Abortion Caravan, Judy
Rebick
- Chapter 49: Sterilization and Abortion, Betsy Hartmann
- Supplement 30: Large Numbers of Natives Were Sterilized by
Province, Brian Savage
- Chapter 50: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change,
Lorette Ross, Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Health
Collective, Rickie Solinger, and Population and Development Program
at Hampshire College
- Supplement 31: Reproductive Rights around the World
- Part 4F: Violence against Women
- Chapter 51: The Ultimate Rape Victim, Jane Doe
- Chapter 52: Factsheet: Violence against Women and Girls, Marika
Morris and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of
Women (CRIAW)
- Chapter 53: Their Spirits Live within Us: Aboriginal Women in
Downtown Eastside Vancouver Emerging into Visibility, Dara
Culhane
- Supplement 32: 10 Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence,
Jackson Katz
- Part 5: Gendering Work, Globalization, And Activism
- Part 5A: Women and Global Restructuring
- Supplement 33: What Is Neo-liberal Globalization? Alison
Jagger
- Chapter 54: Women and Globalization, Shawn Meghan Burn
- Supplement 34: The IMF: Violating Women since 1945, Christine
Ahn and Kavita Ramdas
- Chapter 55: Women behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from
Central America, STITCH and the Maquila Solidarity Network
- Chapter 56: The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural
Adjustment: A View from Jamaica, Faye V. Harrison
- Chapter 57: Fruits of Injustice: Women in the Post-NAFTA Food
System, Deborah Barndt
- Part 5B: The ""New Economy"": On (Not) Getting By in North
America
- Chapter 58: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in North
America, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Chapter 59: Factsheet: Women and Restructuring in Canada,
Deborah Stienstra
- Chapter 60: Provisioning: Thinking about All of Women's Work,
Marge Reitsma-Street, Sheila Neysmith, Stephanie Baker-Collins, and
Elaine Porter
- Part 5C: Poverty, Homelessness, and Social Welfare in
Canada
- Chapter 61: Poverty in Canada, Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell
- Chapter 62: The Leaner, Meaner Welfare Machine: The Ontario
Conservative Government's Ideological and Material Attack on Single
Mothers, Margaret Hillyard Little
- Supplement 36: Hidden Homelessness, Raising the Roof
- Chapter 63: Research Bulletin no. 2: Women and Homelessness,
Street Health and Sistering
- Supplement 37: Rural Women and Poverty
- Chapter 34: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60, The
Little Voices of Nunavut
- Part 6: Organizing For Change
- Part 6A: Women's Movements in Canada
- Supplement 38: Activist Insight: History Shows the Importance
of Breaking Silence, Paulette Senior
- Chapter 65: The Women's Movement in Canada, Jacquetta Newman
and Linda White
- Chapter 66: 2,000 Good Reasons to March, Fédération des femmes
du Québec
- Supplement 39: Activist Insight: Messages of Hope for Young
Aboriginal Women, Priscilla Settee
- Chapter 67: The Future of Feminism, Judy Rebick
- Supplement 40: RebELLES: Manifesto of the Pan-Canadian Young
Feminist Gathering
- Part 6B: Transnational Feminism: Challenges and
Possibilities
- Supplement 41: The World Conferences on Women
- Chapter 68: The Evolution of Transnational Feminisms:
Consensus, Conflict, and New Dynamics, Aili Mari Tripp
- Supplement 42: Feminism without Borders
- Supplement 43: Gender Power in the United Nations
- Chapter 69: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe: Feminists Look
at Masculinity and the Men Who Wage War, Carol Cohn and Cynthia
Enloe
- Supplement 44: Global Women's Strike, Huelga Mundial de
Mujeres
About the Author
Margaret Hobbs is Associate Professor in the
Department of Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University.
Carla Rice is Canada Research Chair in Care,
Gender, and Relationships and an Associate Professor at the
University of Guelph.
Reviews
This comprehensive collection provides an entry-point for students
new to Women's and Gender Studies. The carefully selected readings
clearly illustrate why the theories, perspectives, and insights
offered in Women's and Gender Studies are, more than ever, critical
to understanding the world in which we live and the challenges we
face, and for re-visioning a better, more just, national and
international community.""
— Lori Chambers, Women’s Studies, Lakehead University
""While nation-specific in title, this collection is not confined
by conventional political constructs, as the authors consider how
power is exercised, and embodied, by the individual and the
collective within nation-states or dictated by forces of
capitalism. Hobbs and Rice forge a systematic pathway through the
essentials - body, sexuality, reproduction, representation, labour,
citizenship, masculinity, violence, poverty, health - needed at
entry levels of Women's and Gender Studies.
— Carol Williams, Associate Professor and Chair, Women and Gender
Studies, University of Lethbridge