Sexism in America by Berg, Barbara J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION - INEQUALITY–THE NEW NORMAL 1 - THE AWAKENING OF AMERICAN WOMEN

The World of Our Fathers How Are You Going to Keep Her Down on the Ranch (-Style House)? The World of Our Mothers

2 - FEMINISM TAKES FLIGHT

Figuring Out Feminism The Personal Becomes Political A Woman’s Work Is Never . . . a Man’s As the Twig Is Bent, So Is It Trampled History Through a New Lens

3 - GENDER ROLES UNDER FIRE

Homeward Bound The Great “Nature Versus Nurture” Debate Balking and Basking in the Blue Glow Toppling the Prestigious Pronoun

4 - DO NOT BEND, FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE

The Pill: A Magic Bullet or a Deadly One? Taking the Field Away from the Big Men Whose Body Is It Anyway?

5 - REAGAN AND THE GREAT REALITY CHECK

Hollywood Actor Plays Puritan Preacher

6 - WELFARE QUEENS, HERCULEAN WOMEN, AND SEX-STARVED STALKERS

Down but Certainly Not Out

7 - THE MIXED BAG OF BILL CLINTON

Finding Our Way in the Millennium

8 - BUSHWINKED TO BUSHWHACKED

All The News That’s (Un)Fit to Print

9 - 9/11 AND WOMEN

Damsels in Distress of the New Millennium

10 - 9/11 AND MEN 11 - MILITARY MADNESS

GI Joe Is Back, and He Is Us

12 - STARVE THE BEAST, SINK THE NATION 13 - BODILY HARM

Warning! This Country May Be Dangerous to Your Health Battering the Already Battered

14 - BIRTH-CONTROL ACTIVISTS, PLEASE PHONE HOME

The New War on Contraception The New Right’s Assault on Choice

15 - TROUBLE@EDU

Gender Difference Goes to School Separate but (Almost) Equal Is OK for Girls The Unequal Playing Field on the Field The Unequal Playing Field in Academies A Lab Where the Women Are the Guinea Pigs

16 - THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WORKING WOMEN

Gender Difference Goes to Work Copycat Crimes Equal Pay for Equal Work? Don’t Bet on It How Are We Discriminated Against? Let Me Count the Ways Sugar and Spice–or Else! Gender Stereotyping at Work Family Affairs

17 - MOTHERS MATTER(S)

Inside Opting Out

18 - UNPOPULAR CULTURE

The New Bullies on the Block From Middle School Meanies to Tween Temptresses I’m Too Sexy for My . . . Own Well-Being

19 - MISSING AT THE MULTIPLEX

“No Room for a Womb!” Stereotyped, Hypersexualized, and Silent The Marriage Mart Mirror Mirror on the Wall

20 - THE DISAPPEARING GIRL

The Shape of the Month Here a Nip, There a Tuck

21 - TOXIC MALES AND TARTY FEMALES

Rap–In Need of Serious Revision Sex, Death, and Video Games Porn Goes Mainstream “Choice”–Suddenly Turned Against Us The Right Amount of Sexy

22 - DESPERATELY SEEKING SELF 23 - MORE THAN A FEW GOOD WOMEN

Down for the Count

CONCLUSION - THE CHANGE WE NEED RESOURCES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY