Nancy Whittier

Verta Taylor

Leila Rupp

The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual identity and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With both classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics that cut across disciplinary and generational lines, this text presents the full diversity of women's lives, exploring commonalities as well as interconnected differences. Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in interaction with class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and nationality. This anthology also introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. This edition maintains consistent coverage of diverse ethnicities and a global perspective, with greater attention to transgender issues and disability.

Feminist Frontiers

Leila J. Rupp

Alison Dahl Crossley

Nancy E. Whittier

Feminist Frontiers, eleventh edition, is an intersectional, and interdisciplinary introduction to the field of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Featuring both classic readings and cutting-edge feminist writings on urgent and timely topics, it offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing gender, society, and culture. Organized into seven parts, the book opens with the foundations of feminism, including definitions of gender and sex, the concept of privilege, and the complexities of intersectional feminist research. The book then introduces students to key readings in culture and socialization; sex, families, and relationships; bodies; work; violence; and closes with a set of readings on feminist activism. Section-opening introductions introduce key ideas and encourage students to think both critically and self-reflexively before beginning the unit, while introductions to each reading offer further context. Discussion questions foster engaging classroom conversations and encourage readers to apply concepts from the book to their own lives. Combining research articles with shorter essays, blogs, and other online writings written by academics and well-known feminist intellectuals, the book offers multiple levels of entry that meet the needs of students with varied backgrounds and learning styles. The eleventh edition features twenty-nine new readings to showcase all of today's most important issues. New to this edition: · Twenty-nine new selections offer both up-to-date research on previously explored topics as well as new inclusions responding to current attacks on women, people of color, and LBGTQ+ communities · Expanded range of topics in the section “Violence” explore interpersonal violence as well as collective violence faced by many groups today · Article summaries at the beginning of each chapter, bookended with an increased number of discussion questions, supplement reading and deepen engagement with the material · Updated seven-part structure offers instructors a compact-yet thorough-organization for a course.

Readings on Gender, Sexuality, and Society

Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses interviews and personal letters, talk show transcripts, organizational newsletters and a survey of postpartum group leaders to illuminate conflicts played out in the arena of women's self-help.

Feminism, Self-Help and Postpartum Depression

Rock-a-by Baby

Revised edition of Feminist frontiers, c2012.

It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled the room. When the lights finally go down, statuesque blonds and stunning brunettes sporting black leather miniskirts, stiletto heels, and see-through lingerie take the stage. En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" blares on the house stereo. The crowd roars in approval. In this lively book, Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor take us on an entertaining tour through one of America's most overlooked subcultures: the world of the drag queen. They offer a penetrating glimpse into the lives of the 801 Girls, the troupe of queens who perform nightly at the 801 Cabaret for tourists and locals. Weaving together their fascinating life stories, their lavish costumes and eclectic music, their flamboyance and bitchiness, and their bawdy exchanges with one another and their audiences, the authors explore how drag queens smash the boundaries between gay and straight, man and woman, to make people think more deeply and realistically about sex and gender in America today. They also consider how the queens create a space that encourages camaraderie and acceptance among everyday people, no matter what their sexual preferences might be. Based on countless interviews with more than a dozen drag queens, more than three years of attendance at their outrageous performances, and even the authors' participation in the shows themselves, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret is a witty and poignant portrait of gay life and culture. When they said life is a cabaret, they clearly meant the 801.

Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret

Mary Bernstein

As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely questioned within the LGBT movement. Rarely has an objective so central to a social movement’s political agenda been so controversial within the movement itself. While antigay forces work to restrict marriage to one man and one woman, lesbian and gay activists are passionately arguing about the desirability, viability, and social consequences of same-sex marriage. The Marrying Kind? is the first book to draw on empirical research to examine these debates and how they are affecting marriage equality campaigns. The essays in this volume analyze the rhetoric, strategies, and makeup of the LGBT social movement organizations pushing for same-sex marriage, and address the dire predictions of some LGBT commentators that same-sex marriage will spell the end of queer identity and community. Case studies from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Canada illuminate the complicated politics of same-sex marriage, making clear that the current disagreements among LGBT activists over whether marriage is conforming or transformative are far too simplistic. Instead, the impact of the marriage equality movement is complex and often contradictory, neither fully assimilationist nor fully oppositional. Contributors: Ellen Ann Andersen, U of Vermont; Mary C. Burke, U of Vermont; Adam Isaiah Green, U of Toronto; Melanie Heath, McMaster U, Ontario; Kathleen E. Hull, U of Minnesota; Katrina Kimport, U of California, San Francisco; Jeffrey Kosbie; Katie Oliviero, U of Colorado, Boulder; Kristine A. Olsen; Timothy A. Ortyl; Arlene Stein, Rutgers U; Amy L. Stone, Trinity U; Nella Van Dyke, U of California, Merced.

Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement

The Marrying Kind?

Verta A. Taylor

Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies Verta Taylor

A professor of womens studies teams up with a professor of sociology to present this animated romp through a time-honored American sub-culture, carrying readers backstage to witness the costumes, music, pomp and circumstance of Americas drag queens.

Verta Taylor

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