Women: A Feminist Perspective
4th Edition
edited by Jo Freeman
Mayfield Publishing Company (1989 )
(Out of Print)

Table of Contents
Reviews

Published in 1989, this edition features a few articles on new topics, along with some new authors on traditional ones and significant revisions by authors of retained articles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
by Jo Freeman

Introduction
by Jo Freeman

Part One: The Body and its Control

- Sexual Terrorism
by Carole J. Sheffield

- The Rape Culture
by Dianne F. Herman

- Abortion: The Controversial Choice
by Nadean Bishop

- Sexual Harassment: The Link Joining Gender Stratification, Sexuality, and Women's Economic Status
by Susan Ehrlich Martin

- Women, Health, and Medicine
by Barbara Katz Rothman

Part Two: In and Out of the Family

- Women and the American Family: Continuity and Change
by Naomi Gerstel and Harriet Engel Gross

- The Balance of Power in Dating and Marriage
by Letitia Anne Peplau and Susan Miller Campbell

- Marital Relationships and Mental Health: The Psychic Costs of Inequality
by Janice M. Steil

- Marital Intimacy and Conflict: The Irony of Spousal Equality
by Janet Saltzman Chafetz

- Motherhood: Contemporary Conflict for Women
by Michele Hoffnung

- Child Care
by Jill Norgren

Part Three: Growing up Female

- Gender-Role Socialization: Lessons in Femininity
by Hilary M. Lips

- Women and Higher Education: Gender Differences in the Status of Students and Scholars
by Mary Frank Fox

- The Double Standard: Age
by Inge Powell Bell

- The Internalization of Powerlessness: A Case Study of the Displaced Homemaker
by Lois M. Greenwood-Audant

Part Four: The Working Woman

- Women in the Labor Force: An Overview
by Francine A Blau and Anne E. Winkler

- Clerical Work: The Female Occupation
by Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Roslyn L. Feldberg

- "Union is Power": Sketches from Women's Labor History
by Barbara M. Werthheimer and Anne H. Nelson

- Professional Women: How Real Are the Recent Gains?
by Debra Renee Kaufman

- Trust, Loyalty and the Place of Women in the Informal Organization of Work
by Judith Lorber

- Women's Work is Never Done: The Division of Domestic Labor
by Shelley W. Coverman

Part Five: Institutions of Social Control

- The Legal Revolution
by Jo Freeman

- Out of Order: A Critical Perspective on Women in Religion
by Martha J. Reineke

- The Experiences of Minority Women in the United States: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class
by Elizabeth M. Almquist

- What Price Independence? Social Reactions to Lesbians, Spinsters, Widows, and Nuns
by Rose Weitz

- The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior
by Nancy Henley and Jo Freeman

- Sexism and the English Language: The Linguistic Implications of Being a Woman
by Karen L. Adams and Norma C. Ware

- Poverty is a Woman's Problem
by Kathleen Shortridge

- Farewell to Alms: Women's Fare Under Welfare
by Diana M. Pearce

- Women's Athletics and the Myth of Female Frailty
by Nancy Theberge

- Women at West Point: Lessons for Token Women in Male Dominated Occupations
by Janice D. Yoder

Part Six: Feminism

- Feminist Organization and Activities from Suffrage to Women's Liberation
by Jo Freeman

- Feminist Consciousness and Black Women
by Pauline Terrelonge

- Keep Us on the Pedestal: Women Against Feminism in Twentieth-Century America
by Susan E. Marshall

- From Pedestals to Partners: Men's Responses to Feminism
by Michael S. Kimmel

PUBLISHED REVIEWS:

Keating, Barbara R., Teaching Sociology, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 1990, pp. 257-9.

Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 1980, p. 96.