Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions

Susan M. Shaw is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University.Janet Lee is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University.

• *=New to this editionPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1: Women's and Gender Studies: Perspectives and PracticesThe Origins of WGSWomen's Rights Activism in the United StatesWGS TodayWGS and FeminismFeminism and its Myths1. Adrienne Rich, "Claiming an Education"2. Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Consciousness"3. *Combahee River Collective Statement4. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, "A Day Without Feminism"5. Kia M. Q. Hall, "A Transnational Black Feminist Framework"6. *Valentine M. Moghadam, "Transnational Feminist Networks and Contemporary Crises"7. *Graciela Mochkofsky, "Who Are You Calling Latinx?"8. Marge Piercy, "My Heroines"Chapter 2: Systems of Privilege and InequalityDifference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and InequalityDiscourse, Power, and KnowledgeInstitutions9. Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward a New Vision"10. Vivian M. May, "Intersectionality"11. Audre Lorde, "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression"12. Gina Crosley-Corcoran, " Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"13. Evin Taylor, "Cisgender Privilege"14. Ellie Mamber, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says"15. *Andrew Pulrang, "On Disability"16. Jim Ferris "Poems with Disabilities"Chapter 3: Learning GenderGender, Culture, and BiologyMasculinityFemininityGender FluidityGender Ranking17. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes, Revisited"18. Judith Lorber, "The Social Construction of Gende"19. *Lisa M. Diamond, "Gender Fluidity and Nonbinary Gender Identities Among Children and Adolescents"20. *Lise Eliot, "You don't have a male or female brain"21. *Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, "Becoming a Maya Woman"22. Nellie Wong, "When I Was Growing Up"23. *Lois Gould, "X: A Fabulous Child's Story"Chapter 4: Inscribing Gender on the BodyThe Social Construction of the BodyThe "Beauty" IdealEating DisordersNegotiating "Beauty" Ideals24. *Viren Swamia, et al, "The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey"25. Gloria Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate"26. *Andrea Carlo,

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