Women in Culture

Bonnie Kime Scott is Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Joyce and Feminism (1984), The Gender of Modernism (1990), the two volume study of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Rebecca West, Refiguring Modernism (1995), Selected Letters of Rebecca West (2000), and In the Hollow of the Wave: Virginia Woolf and Modernist Uses of Nature (2012).Susan E. Cayleff is a Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness (1993) and Babe: The Greatest All-Sport Athlete of All-Time (2001). Her biography Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1996) was a Pulitzer Prize nominee.Anne Donadey is Professor of French and Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Recasting Postcolonialism (2001), co-editor of Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies (with H. Adlai Murdoch, 2005), and editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar (2016). She was also editor of a special issue of the journal L’Esprit créateur dedicated to the works of Assia Djebar (Winter 2008).Irene Lara isAssociate Professor at San Diego State University’s Department of Women’s Studies. She has published a co-edited volume, Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives (with Elisa Facio, 2014).

• Acknowledgments xList of Sources xiGeneral Introduction xvii1 Introduction to Feminist Concepts and Issues 1By Anne Donadey1.1 My Name 11Sandra Cisneros1.2 The New Pronoun They Invented Suited Everyone Just Fine (illustration) 12Jacinta Bunnell and Nat Kusinitz1.3 Oppression 13Marilyn Frye1.4 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference 16Audre Lorde1.5 Womanist 23Alice Walker1.6 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity 24Michael S. Kimmel1.7 Abandon Your Tedious Search: The Rulebook Has Been Found! 33Kate Bornstein1.8 Feminists Theorize Colonial/Postcolonial 39Rosemary Marangoly George2 Stories of Identity and Community 50By Irene Lara2.1 To Live in the Borderlands Means You 62Gloria Anzaldúa2.2 Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves 63Evelyn Alsultany2.3 Where I Come from is Like This 68Paula Gunn Allen2.4 Introduction to Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy 74Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild2.5 From In Gerangl/In Struggle: A Handbook for Recognizing and Resisting Anti-Semitism and for Rebuilding Jewish Identity and Pride 84Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz with Bernice Mennis2.6 losing home 86eli clare3 Histories of Feminism 92By Bonnie Kime Scott3.1 The Women at the Gate 99Evelyn Sharp3.2 And A’n’t I a Woman? 104Sojourner Truth3.3 When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision 106Adrienne Rich3.4 From Separate Roads to Feminism 114Benita Roth3.5 Feminist Consciousness and African Literary Criticism 120Carole Boyce Davies3.6 The Historical Denial of Lesbianism 129Blanche Wiesen Cook3.7 The Historian as Curandera 134Aurora Levins Morales4 Women and Gender in Arts and Media 148By Bonnie Kime Scott4.1 Obasan 154Joy Kogawa4.2 The Tag Project: Executive Order 9066 (illustration) 157Wendy Maruyama4.3 Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? (illustration) 158Guerrilla Girls4.4 The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman 158Esther Newton4.5 Shakespeare’s Sister 169Virginia Woolf4.6 Creative Expressions 174Maythee Rojas4.7 Beauty and the Beast of Advertising 183Jean Kilbourne4.8 Pop and Circumstance: Why Pop Culture Matters 186Andi Zeisler5 Sexualities and Genders 195By Susan E. Cayleff5.1 poem on trying to love without fear 203Maiana Minahal5.2 Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power 205Audre Lorde5.3 The Happiest Day of My Life (illustration) 2105.4 An Immodest Proposal 210Heather Corinna5.5 “Charity Girls” and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880–1920 214Kathy Peiss5.6 When You Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Woman 224Indiana University Empowerment Workshop5.7 Heterosexuality Questionnaire 225Gay and Lesbian Speakers’ Bureau5.8 Aligning Bodies, Identities, and Expressions: Transgender Bodies 226Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore5.9 Masculinity Politics on a World Scale 234R. W. Connell5.10 Brown Boi Health Manifesto 239Prentis Hemphill6 Body Politics 241By Susan E. Cayleff6.1 Recipe 247Janice Mirikitani6.2 A History of Women’s Bodies 248Rose Weitz6.3 If Men Could Menstruate 256Gloria Steinem6.4 Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) 258Laura Hershey6.5 Do We Call You Handicapped? (illustration) 260Morrie Turner6.6 Maintaining Masculinity: Homophobia at Work 261Eric Anderson6.7 The Story of My Body 267Judith Ortiz Cofer6.8 veiled intentions: don’t judge a muslim girl by her covering 274maysan haydar7 Reproductive and Environmental Justice 279By Bonnie Kime Scott7.1 Sequel to Love 285Meridel le Sueur7.2 Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health and Human Rights 288Loretta J. Ross, Sarah L. Brownlee, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Luz Rodriquez, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project7.3 Depo Diaries and the Power of Stories 297Etobssie Wako and Cara Page7.4 Women, People of Color, Children, and Health and Women and Environmental Justice 302Karen J. Warren7.5 Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism 309Ynestra King7.6 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows 315Vandana Shiva7.7 Green our Communities! Plant Urban Gardens (illustration) 323Favianna Rodriguez7.8 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism 323Greta Gaard8 Violence and Resistance 335By Anne Donadey8.1 The Yellow Wallpaper 343Charlotte Perkins Gilman8.2 Scope of the Problem 355Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot8.3 Sexual Assault Prevention Tips 367Feminally8.4 Legal Images of Battered Women 367Martha R. Mahoney8.5 Feminicidio: The “Black Legend” of the Border 381Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán8.6 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 389Cheryl Chase8.7 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing 404Andrea Smith9 Healing and Spirituality 413By Irene Lara9.1 The Moths 422Helena María Viramontes9.2 My Guardian Spirits 426Ama R. Saran9.3 Honor and Ceremony in Women’s Rituals 428E. M. Broner9.4 My World of the Unknown 435Alifa Rifaat9.5 From Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about Their Religious and Political Perspectives 445Inés Maria Talamantez9.6 The Clan of One-Breasted Women 450Terry Tempest Williams9.7 Life out of Balance 455Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt10 Activism for the Future 463By Susan E. Cayleff10.1 Feminism: A Transformational Politic 467bell hooks10.2 Smash Patriarchy (illustration) 47410.3 Fat Liberation Manifesto 475Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran10.4 Fighting Back 476Jenny Morris10.5 Expanding Environmental Justice: Asian American Feminists’ Contribution 484Julie Sze10.6 El Mundo Zurdo and the Ample Space of the Erotic 491M. Jacqui Alexander10.7 Lessons for Transformation 496AnaLouise Keating10.8 All Sleeping Women Now Awake and Move (illustration) 50710.9 Still I Rise 507Maya AngelouGlossary 509Timeline 520Index 529