PART Ⅰ 1
Historical Background 1
WOMEN AND EDUCATION:A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 3
1 "Feminism and the Education of Women"Florence Howe 5
2 Educational Reminiscences Catharine Beecher 16
3 "Black Women's Education in the South"Elizabeth L.Ihle 19
4 "Discussion of the Same Subject[The Intellectual Progress of Colored Women of the U.S. Since the Emancipation]"Anna Julia Cooper 28
5 Cultivating the Rosebuds:The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary,1851-1909 Devon A.Mihesuah 31
THE POLITICS oF EDUCATION AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 44
6 "Mississippi Freedom Schools"Florence Howe 46
7 "Ten Point Program"Black Student Unions 60
8 "Columbia Liberated"Columbia Strike Coordinating Committee 62
9 "The Proper Study of Womankind:On Women's Studies"Robin Morgan 73
VISIONS OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 76
10 "Claiming an Education"Adrienne Rich 78
11 Transforming Knowledge Elizabeth Minnich 82
12 "Designing an Inclusive Curriculum:Bringing All Women into the Core" Elizabeth Higginbotham 95
PART Ⅱ 107
Women's Studies in Action 107
HISTORY 109
13 "Women's History"Joan Scott 110
14 "Female Slave Resistance:The Economics of Sex"Darlene Clark Hine 121
15 "The Female World of Love and Ritual"Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 128
SCIENCE 147
16 "Turning the Tables on Science"Marilyn Milloy 149
17 "Feminism and Science"Evelyn Fox Keller 158
18 "Calling the Shots?The International Politics of Depo-Provera"Phillida Bunkle 170
SOCIOLOGY 183
19 "Making Gender Visible"Joan Acker 184
20 "Living Poor:Family Life Among Single Parent,African-American Women"Robin L.Jarrett 195
21 "Night to His Day":The Social Construction of Gender Judith Lorber 214
COMMUNICATION 234
22 "Setting New(s)Agendas:An Introduction"Cynthia Carter,Gill Branston, and Stuart Allan 236
23 "The Rhetoric of Women's Liberation:An Oxymoron"Karlyn Kohrs Campbell 245
24 "Is the Gaze Male?"E.Ann Kaplan 257
ENGLISH/LITERARY STUDIES 269
25 "Infection in the Sentence:The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 271
26 "Reflections on Black Women Writers:Revising the Literary Canon"Nellie McKay 286
27 "The Politics of Poetics:Or,What Am I,A Critic,Doing in This Text Anyhow?"Tey Diana Rebolledo 299
ECONOMICS 306
28 "The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender"Marianne A.Ferber and Julie A.Nelson 308
29 "Whose'Choice'?'Flexible'Women Workers in the Tomato Food Chain"Deborah Barndt 323
30 "Fallacies of Welfare-to-Work Policies"Randy Albelda 334
PHILOSOPHY 344
31 "Philosophical Methodology and Feminist Methodology:Are They Compatible?"Susan Sherwin 346
32 "Feminism and the Environment:An Overview of the Issues" Karen J.Warren 358
33 "Surfing the Third Wave:A Dialogue Between Two Third Wave Feminists"Rita Alfonso&J.Trigilio 366
ANTHROPOLOGY 373
34 "Woman the Gatherer:Male Bias in Anthropology"Sally Slocum 375
35 "Border Work:Feminist Ethnography and the Dissemination of Literacy"Deborah Gordon 384
36 "Indian Suttee:The Ultimate Consummation of Marriage" Mary Daly 399
PSYCHOLOGY 410
37 "'Kinde",Kuche,Kirche'As Scientific Law:Psychology Constructs the Female"Naomi Weisstein 412
38 "Androgyny and the Psychology of Women"Hester Eisenstein 423
39 "From Snapshots to Videotape:New Directions in Research on Gender Differences"Stephanie Riger 432
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES 443
40 "Leadership and Gender:Vive la Différence?"Gary N.Powell 445
41 "Women in Management:What It Will Take to Attain Truly Equal Opportunity"Jennifer S.Macleod 454
42 "Radically Transforming Work for the 21st Century:A Feminist Reconstruction of"Real"Work"Joyce K.Fletcher 465
POLITICAL SCIENCE 475
43 "The Gender Basis of American Social Policy"Virginia Sapiro 477
44 "Latina Women and Political Consciousness:La Chispa Que Prende"Carol Hardy-Fanta 493
45 "Women's Rights as Human Rights:Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights"Charlotte Bunch 505
CONSIDERATIONS/CRITIQUES OF WOMEN'S STUDIES 515
46 "What's Wrong with Women's Studies?"Daphne Patai 517
47 "Is Academic Feminism an Oxymoron?"Judith Stacey 525
48 "My Master List for the Millennium"Jean F.O'Barr 530
49 "Scholarly Studies of Men:The New Field Is an Essential Complement to Women's Studies"Harry Brod 533