Table of Contents
Credits Introduction: Living with Contradictions Equality Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality Reconstructing Sexual Equality Toward Feminist Jurisprudence Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics Women Working Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified Fairness, Meritocracy, and Reverse Discrimination The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts An Argument Against Comparable Worth Some Implications of Comparable Worth Sex Work Prostitution A Most Useful Tool Stripper Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution What’s Wrong with Prostitution? International Committee for Prostitutes’ Rights World Charter and World Whores’ Congress Statements Marketing Femininity Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture Why Pornography Matters to Feminists Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation Racism in Pornography and the Women’s Movement Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different Ways of Seeing Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty What’s Wrong with Being a Sex Object? Bibo The Unadorned Feminist Gynocide: Chinese Footbinding “Do Something About Your Weight” Hunger Skin Deep Marieme The Myth of the Perfect Body Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self Women’s Fertility—Individual Choices and Social Constraints Abortion Deregulating Abortion Women and Children First? Abortion: On Public and Private Abortion and a Woman’s Right to Decide Parental Consent Laws: Are They a “Reasonable Compromise”? Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion A Reproductive Rights Agenda for the 1990s The Global Politics of Abortion Prenatal and Preconception Sex Choice Technologies: A Path to Femicide? Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens Procreative Technology and Procreative Freedom The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology Reproductive Rights and Wrongs Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: A Reproductive Rights Analysis “Informed Consent”: The Myth of Voluntarism Babies, Heroic Experts, and a Poisoned Earth Access to In Vitro Fertilization: Cost, Care, and Consent Family Values Contract Child Production Inside the Surrogate Industry Reproductive Freedom and Women’s Freedom: Surrogacy and Autonomy Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context Children by Donor Insemination: A New Choice for Lesbians The Facts of Fatherhood Valuing Alternative Families The Politics of Childlessness When Women and Men Mother The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters A Lesbian Family Black Women and Motherhood The Che-Lumumba School: Creating a Revolutionary Family Community Friends as Family: No One Said It Would Be Easy The Personal as Political Sexual Practice The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving Virgin Women Heterosexuality and Choice Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality Is Not Enough Beyond Bisexual Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation Feminist Ejaculations Consuming Animals Dismantling Oppression: An Analysis of the Connection Between Women and Animals The Sexual Politics of Meat Feminism and Vegetarianism Hunting: A Woman’s Perspective Shots in the Dark Some Doubts About Fur Coats Feminists Changing the World Militarism The Protected, the Protector, the Defender The Army Will Make a “Man” Out of You “Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick” Surprise! Rape in the Army Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence Greenham Common and All That... A Radical Feminist View Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics “They Won’t Take Me Alive” We Speak for the Planet Environmentalism Taking Empirical Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine’s War Against the Natural World Development, Ecology, and Women Conversations with Gaia Searching for Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism Women, Home, and Community: The Struggle in an Urban Environment Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott Stealing the Planet Reproductive Choices: The Ecological Dimension Women, Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach About the Book and Editor