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Title Uncertain terms : negotiating gender in American culture / edited by Faye Ginsburg & Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

Imprint Boston : Beacon Press, c1990.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.42 Un1    ---  Available
Description viii, 338 p. : 1 ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Different voices, different visions / C. B. Stack -- Constructing amniocentesis / R. Rapp -- Backtalking the wilderness : "Appalachian" en-genderings / K. C. Stewart -- "Word-made" flesh : the disembodiment of gender in the abortion debate / F. Ginsburg -- If I should die before I wake : Jerry Falwell's pro-life gospel / S. Harding -- "We are not doormats" : the influence of feminism on contemporary evangelicals in the United States / J. Stacey, S. E. Gerard -- Negotiating sex and gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography / C. S. Vance -- Production as means, production as metaphor / K. Weston -- Unseen women at the academy / C. Saltzman -- Two faces of the state : women, social control, and empowerment / S. Morgen -- Delicate Transactions : gender, home, and employment among Hispanic women / M. P. F. Kelly -- Claims to motherhood : custody disputes and maternal strategies / E. Lewin -- Passing notes and telling jokes : gendered strategies among American middle school teenagers / J. E. Canaan.
(cont.) Catching sense : learning from our mothers to be black and female / S. Carothers -- Rage and representations : Jewish gender stereotypes in American culture / R. E. Press -- "Drastic entertainments" : teenage moters' signifying narratives / S. Thompson -- monster stories : women charged with perinatal endangerment / A. L. Tsing -- Idiology of reproduction : the reproduction of ideology / E. Martin -- Incongruities : dissonance and contradiction in the life of a black middle-class woman / I. McClaurin-Allen.
Subject Feminism
Sex role
Women -- Social conditions.
Added Author Ginsburg, Faye D.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.
ISBN 0807046124

 
    
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