Women : a feminist perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Freeman, Jo (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Palo Alto, Calif. : Mayfield Publishing Company, [1984]
Edition:	Third edition.
Subjects:	Women > United States > Social conditions. Feminism > United States. Women's rights. Women Women's Rights United States nők > társadalmi helyzet > Egyesült Államok feminizmus > Egyesült Államok Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales. Féminisme > États-Unis. Femmes. Femmes > Droits. Women. Feminism. Women > Social conditions. United States. Frauenforschung Feminismus Feminism > United States Women > United States > Social conditions werkgelegenheid employment ethiek ethics gezinnen families gezinsleven family life vrouwelijke arbeidskrachten female labour groepen groups gezondheid health hygiene arbeid (werk) labour arbeidseconomie labour economics huwelijk marriage werkorganisatie organization of work psychologie psychology geslacht (sex) sex seksueel gedrag sexual behaviour sociale klassen social classes sociale structuur social structure positie van de vrouw woman's status vrouwen vrouwelijke werknemers women workers werk work arbeidskunde work study vrouwenemancipatie emancipation of women gelijke behandeling van de vrouw female equality feminisme vrouw en samenleving woman and society vrouwenbeweging women's movement Women's Studies Vrouwenstudies
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Part one. The body and its control. 1. Sexual terrorism / Carole J. Sheffield.
2. The rape culture / Dianne Herman.
3. Abortion: the controversial choice / Nadean Bishop.
4. Sexual harassment: the link between gender stratification, sexuality, and women's economic status / Susan Ehrlich Martin.
5. Women, health, and medicine / Barbara Katz Rothman.
Part two. In and out of the family. 6. The origin of the family / Kathleen Gough.
7. Power in dating relationships / Letitia Anne Peplau.
8. Marital relationships and mental health: the psychic costs of inequality / Janice M. Steil.
9. Motherhood: contemporary conflict for women / Michele Hoffnung.
10. Child care / Jill Norgren.
Part three. Growing up female. 11. Sex-role socialization: a focus on women / Lenore J. Weitzman.
12. Women and higher education: sex differentials in the status of students and scholars / Mary Frank Fox.
13. The double standard: age / Inge Powell Bell.
14. The internalization of powerlessness: a case study of the displaced homemaker / Lois M. Greenwood-Audant.
15. Women and widowhood: the suffering beyond grief / Judith M. Stillion
Part four. The working woman. 16. Women in the labor force: an overview / Francine D. Blau.
17. Clerical work: the female occupation / Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Roslyn L. Feldberg.
18. "Union is power": sketches from women's labor history / Barbara M. Wertheimer.
19. Professional women: how real are the recent gains? / Debra Renee Kaufman.
20. Trust, loyalty, and the place of women in the informal organization of work / Judith Lorber.
Part five. Institutions of social control. 21. Women, law, and public policy / Jo Freeman.
22. Women and politics: the real majority / Naomi B. Lynn.
23. Race and ethnicity in the lives of minority women / Elizabeth McTaggart Almquist.
24. What price independence? Social reactions to lesbians, spinsters, widows, and nuns / Rose Weitz.
25. The sexual politics of interpersonal behavior / Nancy Henley and Jo Freeman.
26. Sexism and the English language: the linguistic implications of being a woman / Karen L. Adams nad Norma C. Ware.
27. Poverty is a woman's problem / Kathleen Shortridge.
28. Farewell to alms: women's fare under welfare / Diana M. Pearce.
Part six. Feminism. 29. The historical background / Viola Klein.
30. The first feminists / Judith Hole and Ellen Levine.
31. The Women's Liberation Movement: its origins, structure, activities, and ideas / Jo Freeman.
32. Feminist consciousness and Black women / Pauline Terrelonge.
33. Keep us on the pedestal: women against feminism in Twentieth-Century America / Susan E. Marshall.