ABSTRACT

This book explores some of the moral and public policy issues that divide Western, especially North American, feminists as the twentieth century ends and the twenty-first century begins. It represents an in-house discussion among feminists and their social ethics.

part Two|9 pages

Women Working

section |40 pages

Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth

chapter |7 pages

The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts

National Committee on Pay Equity

part Three|9 pages

Marketing Femininity

section |47 pages

Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture

chapter |10 pages

Ways of Seeing

section |64 pages

Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty

chapter |3 pages

Bibo

chapter |8 pages

Gynocide: Chinese Footbinding

chapter |7 pages

Hunger

chapter |4 pages

Skin Deep

chapter |3 pages

Marieme

chapter |6 pages

The Myth of the Perfect Body

part Four|9 pages

Women’s Fertility—Individual Choices and Social Constraints

section |53 pages

Abortion

chapter |1 pages

Deregulating Abortion

chapter |3 pages

Women and Children First?

part Five|10 pages

Family Values

section |51 pages

Valuing Alternative Families

chapter |3 pages

The Politics of Childlessness

chapter |11 pages

When Women and Men Mother

chapter |5 pages

A Lesbian Family

part Six|8 pages

The Personal as Political

section |56 pages

Sexual Practice

chapter |7 pages

The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm

chapter |5 pages

Virgin Women

chapter |6 pages

Heterosexuality and Choice

chapter |3 pages

Beyond Bisexual

chapter |8 pages

Feminist Ejaculations

section |36 pages

Consuming Animals

part Seven|9 pages

Feminists Changing the World

section |56 pages

Environmentalism

chapter |9 pages

Development, Ecology, and Women

chapter |7 pages

Conversations with Gaia

chapter |2 pages

Stealing the Planet

chapter |2 pages

About the Book and Editor