1 Women's Studies: Perspectives and Practices ; What Is Women's Studies? ; How Did Women's Studies Come About? ; What Were the Origins of Women's Rights Activism in the United States? ; What Is the Status of Women's Studies on College Campuses Today? ; What Does Women's Studies Have to Do with Feminism? ; What Are the Myths Associated with Feminism? -- 1 Claiming an Education / Adrienne Rich -- 2 Forty Years of Women's Studies: Origins and Intersections / Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Bonnie Thorton Dill -- 3 The Housewife's Moment of Truth / Jane O'Reilly -- 4 A Day Without Feminism / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards -- 5 Feminist Politics: Where We Stand / Bell Hooks -- 6 Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary / CV Harquail -- 7 Still Needing the F Word / Anna Quindlen -- 8 My Heroines / Marge Piercy.

2 Systems of Privilege and Inequality ; Difference, Hierarchy, and Systems of Privilege and Inequality ; Institutions ; Ideology -- 9 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection / Patricia Hill Collins -- 10 Oppression / Marilyn Frye -- 11 There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression / Audre Lorde -- 12 Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism / Suzanne Pharr -- 13 White Privilege and Male Privilege / Peggy McIntosh -- 14 What's Race Gotta Do with It? / Cherrie Moraga -- 15 Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda / Felice Yeskel -- Don't Laugh, It's Serious, She Says / Ellie Mamber -- 17 The Social Construction of Disability / Susan Wendell -- 18 Report from the Bahamas / June Jordan -- 3 Learning Gender ; Biology and Culture ; Masculinity ; Femininity ; Gender Ranking -- 19 The Five Sexes, Revisited / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- 20 The Social Construction of Gender / Judith Lorber -- 21 Unraveling Hardwiring / Cordelia Fine -- 22 Trans Identities and Contigent Masculinities: Being Tombois in Everyday Practice / Evelyn Blackwood -- 23 Shame-O-Phobia / David Wexler -- 24 When I Was Growing Up / Nellie Wong -- 25 Through the Lens of Race: Black and White Women's Perception of Womanhood / Isis H. Settlers, Jennifer S. Pratt-Hyatt, and Nicole T. Buchanan -- 26 (Rethinking) Gender Discussion / Debra Rosenberg.

6 Health and Reproductive Rights ; Health and Wellness ; Reproductive Choice -- 46 My Fight for Birth Control / Margaret Sanger -- 47 The Way It Was / Eleanor Cooney -- 48 HIV Risk Behavior Among College Students in the United States / John E. Lewis, Maria-Jose Miguez-Burbano, and Robert M. Malow -- 49 A Global Health Imperative / Nancy Fugate Woods -- 50 Rethinking Radical Politics in the Context of Assisted Reproductive Technology / Jennifer Parks -- 51 Women of Color and Their Struggle for Reproductive Justice / Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutierrez -- 52 Eyes on the Prize / Seldon McCurrie -- 7 Family Systems, Family Lives ; Definitions of Family ; Institutional Connections ; Power and Family Relationships ; Mothering -- 53 Marriage and Love / Emma Goldman -- 54 Who Wants to Marry a Feminist? / Lisa Miya-Jervis -- 55 Don't Give Up Your Day Job: Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake / Heidi Bruggink -- 56 Partners as Parents: Challenges Faced by Gays Denied Marriage / Charlene Gomes -- 57 Hardscrabble Salvation / Joel Preston Smith -- 58 Lullabies Behind Bars / Beth Schwartzapfel -- 59 Our Grandmothers / Maya Angelou -- 8 Women's Work Inside and Outside the Home ; Unpaid Labor in the Home ; Paid Labor -- 60 The Politics of Housework / Pat Mainardi -- 61 A Brief History of Working Women / Sharlene Hess-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter -- 62 Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work / Barbara Ehrenreich -- 63 Color Me Nontoxic / Momo Chang -- 64 Power Plays: Six Ways the Male Corporate Elite Keeps Women Out / Martha Burk -- 65 The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment / Carrie N. Baker -- 66 The Strange Relationship Between Feminism and Sex Work / Carol Leigh.

9 Women Confronting and Creating Culture Digital ; Technologies ; Television ; The Movies ; Contemporary Music and Music Videos ; Print Media ; Literature and the Arts -- 67 Thinking About Shakespeare's Sister / Virginia Woolf -- 68 The Wife / Emily Dickinson -- 69 Jane Addiction / Melissa Sue Kort -- 70 Poetry Is Not a Luxury / Audre Lorde -- 71 Enlightened Sexism / Susan Douglas -- 72 If Women Ran Hip Hop / Aya De Leon -- 73 Death Wore Black Chiffon: Sex and Gender in CSI / Carlen Lavigne -- 74 Singing and Dancing with Gender: Two Essays on Reality TV / Joan Acocella and Johannah Cousins -- 75 Sexting / Amanda Lenhart -- 76 Bad Girl, Good Girl: Zines Doing Feminism / Alison Piepmeier -- 10 Resisting Violence Against Women ; Rape ; Battering and Physical Abuse ; Incest ; Pornography -- 77 Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence Against Women of Color and Human Rights / Andrea Smith -- 78 She Said / Mariah Smith -- 79 The Lost Girls / Mimi Swartz -- 80 Betrayed by the Angel: What Happens When Violence Knocks and Politeness Answers? / Debra Anne Davis -- 81 Confronting Violence / Takyiwaa Manuh and Adolf Awuku Bekoe -- 82 Textual Harassment / Donna St. George -- 83 Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 / Grace Caroline Bridges -- 84 Rape and War: Three Essays on a Theme / Nilanjana S. Roy, Jeffrey Gettleman, and Nicholas D. Kristof -- 11 State, Law, and Social Policy ; Government and Representation ; Women and the Law ; Public Policy ; The Criminal Justice System ; The Military -- 85 Constitutional Argument / Susan B. Anthony -- 86 Too Poor to Parent / Gaylynn Burroughs -- 87 Title IX Update: Two Essays / Libby Sander and David Moltz -- 88 Delinquent Girls / Andrea Doyle Hugmeyer -- 89 The Plight of Women Soldiers / Helen Benedict -- 90 From Rescue to Recognition: Rethinking the Afghan Conflict / Shahnaz Khan.