Women vs Feminism by Williams, Joanna -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements

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Preface

Questioning Feminism The Difficulties of Writing

Part One Women’s Lives Today

Chapter One Schooling for Success

Girls are outperforming boys A dramatic change Underachieving boys The most intelligent gender What gets measured, counts Gendered Expectations Overstating gender Is Girls’ Success Worth Celebrating? Teaching Values Girls under Pressure Back to School Conclusions

Chapter Two Women at Work

More Women Are Working Women in the Professions Historical Changes Generational Differences Fewer Men Working Narrative of Sexism Elite Concerns Quotas for Women Different Women, Different Experiences Sex Segregation A Feminist Etiquette Personal Choice Conclusions

Chapter Three The Gender Pay Gap

Women Are Earning More Delaying Motherhood National Economic Changes Pay Gap Obsession A Movable Feast The Problem with Averages Like for Like Earnings Part-Time Jobs and Part-Time Wages Gender Does Not Determine Earnings Problematic Solutions Don’t Do Women (or Men) Any Favours Conclusions

Chapter Four The Motherhood Penalty

Paying Mothers Less The Illusion of Choice Traditional Roles Changing Families New Pressures on Mothers Relinquishing Autonomy Doing Parenting Disappearing Women Flexible Working Choosing Motherhood Conclusions

Part Two Private Relationships, Public Concerns

Chapter Five Victors or Victims?

Desperately Seeking Disadvantage Overlooking Differences Inflated Claims Personal Stories Internalized Misogyny The Attraction of Victimhood Women’s Mental Health Problems Conclusions

Chapter Six Sex and Relationships

Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution? Problematizing Sex Battered Wife Syndrome Sexual Harassment Teaching Victimhood Regulating Public Life Pornography Child Abuse Rape Culture Rape Myths Campus Sex Panics An Expanding Problem Expanding Definitions Conclusions

Chapter Seven The Trouble with Boys

Title IX Teaching Consent Teaching Mistrust Generation Virgin Heterophobia Toxic Masculinity Promoting Feminine Values Competing Claims for Victimhood Conclusions

Part Three Feminism then and Now

Chapter Eight Not Your Grandmother’s Feminism

Naturally Different Women as Slaves Votes for Some Women Morally Superior Women Freedom to Work The Public Sphere The Second World War Second-Wave Feminism Sexual Equality The Limits of Formal Equality Wages for Housework Blurring Public and Private The Patriarchy Conclusions

Chapter Nine The Personal Is Political

Women in the Academy A Male-Dominated Curriculum Academic Feminism Feminism and Post-modernism Language Constructs Gender Feminism Divided Intersectionality The Problem with Intersectionality Third-Wave Feminism Backlash Myths A Generational Consciousness Woman as Object and Subject Fourth-Wave Feminism The End of Class Politics Conclusions

Chapter Ten Being a Woman

The Female Body Discussing Vaginas Essential Differences The Invention of Gender436 Feeling Like a Woman Performing Gender Transwomen New Gender Orthodoxies Reproductive Rights More to Life Than this…. Conclusions

Chapter Eleven Conclusions

Do We Still Need Feminism? Life Is Different Today Feminism Has Changed Too Enforcing a Feminist Etiquette

Endnotes Bibliography Author Biography Index