Zillah R. Eisenstein is Professor and Chair of Politics at Ithaca College and is the author of, among other books, The Female Body and the Law (California, 1989), which won the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award.

• Acknowledgments    Introduction    PART 1 STUNTED IMAGININGS: THE PROBLEMS OF PATRIARCHAL LIBERALISMAND SOCIALISM    1.    Eastern European Male Democracies: A Problem of Unequal Equality    PART 2 WHO NEEDS GUNS? THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE AMERICAN STATE    2.    United States Politics and the Myth of Post-Racism: The Supreme Court, AffirmativeAction, the Black Middle Class, and the New Black Conservatives    3.    The "New Racism" and Its Multiple Faces: The Civil Rights Act of 1990-91, the ClarenceThomas Hearings, the Gulf War,and "Political Correctness"    4.    Reproductive Rights and the Privatized State:The Webster Decision, Post-Webster Restrictions, and the Bush Administration    5.    The Contradictory Politics of AIDS: Public Moralism versus the Privatized State    PART 3 READ OUR LIPSTICK: FURTHER IMAGININGS    6.    Revisioning Privacy for Democracy    7.    Imagining Feminism: Women of Color Specifying Democracy    Postscript    Notes    Index

Zillah R. Eisenstein is Professor and Chair of Politics at Ithaca College and is the author of, among other books, The Female Body and the Law (California, 1989), which won the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award.

• Acknowledgments    Introduction    PART 1 STUNTED IMAGININGS: THE PROBLEMS OF PATRIARCHAL LIBERALISMAND SOCIALISM    1.    Eastern European Male Democracies: A Problem of Unequal Equality    PART 2 WHO NEEDS GUNS? THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE AMERICAN STATE    2.    United States Politics and the Myth of Post-Racism: The Supreme Court, AffirmativeAction, the Black Middle Class, and the New Black Conservatives    3.    The "New Racism" and Its Multiple Faces: The Civil Rights Act of 1990-91, the ClarenceThomas Hearings, the Gulf War,and "Political Correctness"    4.    Reproductive Rights and the Privatized State:The Webster Decision, Post-Webster Restrictions, and the Bush Administration    5.    The Contradictory Politics of AIDS: Public Moralism versus the Privatized State    PART 3 READ OUR LIPSTICK: FURTHER IMAGININGS    6.    Revisioning Privacy for Democracy    7.    Imagining Feminism: Women of Color Specifying Democracy    Postscript    Notes    Index

Zillah R. Eisenstein is Professor and Chair of Politics at Ithaca College and is the author of, among other books, The Female Body and the Law (California, 1989), which won the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award.

• Acknowledgments    Introduction    PART 1 STUNTED IMAGININGS: THE PROBLEMS OF PATRIARCHAL LIBERALISMAND SOCIALISM    1.    Eastern European Male Democracies: A Problem of Unequal Equality    PART 2 WHO NEEDS GUNS? THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE AMERICAN STATE    2.    United States Politics and the Myth of Post-Racism: The Supreme Court, AffirmativeAction, the Black Middle Class, and the New Black Conservatives    3.    The "New Racism" and Its Multiple Faces: The Civil Rights Act of 1990-91, the ClarenceThomas Hearings, the Gulf War,and "Political Correctness"    4.    Reproductive Rights and the Privatized State:The Webster Decision, Post-Webster Restrictions, and the Bush Administration    5.    The Contradictory Politics of AIDS: Public Moralism versus the Privatized State    PART 3 READ OUR LIPSTICK: FURTHER IMAGININGS    6.    Revisioning Privacy for Democracy    7.    Imagining Feminism: Women of Color Specifying Democracy    Postscript    Notes    Index