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Free Spirits: Feminist Philosophers On Culture
Kate Mehuron, Eastern Michigan University
Gary J. Percesepe, Cedarvile College

ISBN-10: 0023801352
ISBN-13: 9780023801358

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1995
Format: Paper; 544 pp
Published: 10/19/1994

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Designed for sophomore through senior level courses in philosophy and women's studies.

A text featuring full-length essays by feminists and multi-cultural scholars, this reader addresses the international connections between race, gender, sex, AIDS, the environment, and cultural images. These essays represent the cutting edge of multicultural approaches to philosophy and feminist thought. The authors focus on popular cultural representations of important topics, including international ecofeminism and sex tourism, wartime rape, urban problems, masculinity, gay and lesbian analysis of homophobia, ethnocentrism, and capitalism.

  • an introductory chapter briefly describes each essay's position and importance for the text as a whole. Includes recommendations for alternative ways to organize reading assignments.
  • unique selection and organization of chapters and essays. No other text combines cutting- edge essays that address the interconnections between gender, race, sex, environment, and cultural images.
  • full-length essays and reading questions following each essay spur classroom discussion and guide student learning.
  • a recommended reading list at the end of each essay helps instructors organize additional readings, and provides students with sources for further research.
  • recommended audiovisual materials at the end of each essay convey an enlivened sense of the complexity and vividness of the social problems which these essays evaluate.
  • appealing full-page photos that open each chapter serve to stimulate class discussion.

I. IMAGES.

 1. Kimberle Crenshaw & Gary Peller, Reel Time, Real Justice.

 2. Wahneema Lubiano, Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels.

 3. Andrew Ross, Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Cosmonauts: Families, Film Genres, and Technocultures.

 4. Susan Bordo, Material Girl: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture.

 5. Danae Clark, Commodity Lesbianism.

II. COMMUNITY.

 6. bell hooks and Cornel West, Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s.

 7. Barbara Smith, Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Relationships Between Black and Jewish Women

 8. Nancy Fraser, Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture.

 9. Maria C. Lugones, Playfulness, “World-Traveling,” and Loving Perception.

10. Kathy Boudin, et. al., Voices: Women of ACE (AIDS Counseling and Eduction).

III. MEGALOPOLIS.

11. Elaine H. Kim, Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals.

12. Cynthia Enloe, On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism.

13. Leslie Kanes Weisman, The Private Use of Public Space.

14. Celeste Olalquiaga, Holy Kitschen: Collecting Religious Junk From the Street.

IV. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF.

15. Gloria Anzaldua, How To Tame A Wild Tongue.

16. Sandra Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.

17. Susan Ferraro, The Anguished Politics of Breast Cancer.

18. Linda Singer, BodiesPleasuresPowers.

V. ECOFEMINISM.

19. Starhawk, Power, Authority and Mystery: Ecofeminism and Earth-Based Spirituality.

20. Ynestra King, Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism.

21. Carol Adams, The Feminist Traffic in Animals.

22. Carolyn Merchant, Ecofeminism.

VI. SEXUALITIES.

23. Katie Roiphe, Date Rape's Other Victim.

24. Patricia Hill Collins, The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood.

25. Walter L. Williams, Of Religion and Dreams: The Spiritual Basis of the Berdache Tradition.

26. Linda Williams, Fetishism and Hard Core.

27. Catherine MacKinnon, Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace.

VII. MASCULINITIES.

28. Richard Rodriguez, Complexion.

29. John Stoltenberg, How Men Have (a) Sex.

30. Patrick D. Hopkins, Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities.

31. Thomas W. Laqueur, The Facts of Fatherhood.

VIII. POLITICS OF HOPE.

32. Ann Snitow, Being Joyously Political in Dangerous Times.

33. Rayna Green, Culture and Gender in Indian America.

34. Fran Peavy, American Willing to Listen.

35. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Yellow Sprouts.

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