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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED264819 AUTHOR: Freeman, Jo, Ed.
TITLE: Women: A Feminist Perspective. Third Edition.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
NOTE: 629 p.
AVAILABILITY: Mayfield Publishing Company, 285 Hamilton
Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 ($18.95).
ABSTRACT: Feminist issues are discussed in 33 scholarly
articles that cover the following areas: the body and its
control, the family, growing up female, the working woman,
institutions of social control, and historical and
contemporary developments in feminism. Titles and authors
include: "Sexual Terrorism" (Carole J. Sheffield); "The
Rape Culture" (Dianne Herman); "Abortion: The Controversial
Choice" (Nadean Bishop); "Sexual Harassment: The Link
between Gender Stratification, Sexuality, and Women's
Economic Status" (Susan Ehrlich Martin); "Women, Health,
and Medicine" (Barbara Katz Rothman); "The Origin of the
Family" (Kathleen Gough); "Power in Dating Relationships"
(Letitia Anne Peplau); "Marital Relationships and Mental
Health: the Psychic Costs of Inequality" (Janice M. Steil);
"Motherhood: Contemporary Conflict for Women" (Michele
Hoffnung); "Child Care" (Jill Norgren); "Sex-Role
Socialization: A Focus on Women" (Lenore J. Weitzman);
"Women and Higher Education; Sex Differentials in the
Status of Students and Scholars" (Mary Frank Fox); "The
Double Standard: Age" (Inge Powell Bell); "The
Internalization of Powerlessness: A Case Study of the
Displaced Homemaker" (Lois M. Greenwood-Audant);
"Women and Widowhood: The Suffering beyond Grief" (Judith
M. Stillion); "Women in the Labor Force: An Overview"
(Francine D. Blau); "Clerical Work: The Female Occupation"
(Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Roslyn L. Feldbert); "'Union is
Power': Sketches from Women's Labor History" (Barbara M.
Wertheimer); "Professional Women: How Real Are the Recent
Gains?" (Debra Renee Kaufman); "Trust, Loyalty, and the
Place of Women in the Informal Organization of Work"
(Judith Lorber); "Women, Law, and Public Policy" (Jo
Freeman); "Women and Politics: The Real Majority" (Naomi B.
Lynn); "Race and Ethnicity in the Lives of Minority Women"
(Elizabeth McTaggart Almquist); "What Price Independence?
Social Reactions to Lesbians, Spinsters, Widows, and Nuns"
(Rose Weitz); "The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal
Behavior" (Nancy Henly, Jo Freeman); "Sexism and the
English Language; The Linguistic Implications of Being a
Woman" (Karen L. Adams, Norma C. Ware); "Poverty is a
Woman's Problem" (Kathleen Shortridge); "Farewell to Alms:
Women's Fare under Welfare" (Diana M. Pearce); "The
Historical Background" (Viola Klein); "The First Feminists"
(Judith Hole, Ellen Levine); "The Women's Liberation
Movement; Its Origins, Structure, Activities, and Ideas"
(Jo Freeman); "Feminist Consciousness and Black Women"
(Pauline Terrelonge); and "Keep Us on the Pedestal: Women
against Feminism in Twentieth-Century America" (Susan E.
Marshall).
(SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Abortions-; Clerical-Workers; Day-Care;
Displaced-Homemakers; Employed-Women; Females-; Health
Services; Higher-Education; Marital-Status;
Minority-Groups; Professional-Personnel; Sexual-Harassment;
Social-Change; Unions-; Widowed-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employment-Practices; *Family
Relationship; *Feminism-; *Political-Influences; *Sex-Role;
*Sexual-Abuse
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