Womanhoods and Equality in the United States: 20th21st Century Perspectives [Hardcover]

Womanhoods and Equality in the United States explores how the idea of equality has evolved along with the debates that have animated contemporary American womens history, and is an essential resource for academics and students in gender studies,?American socio-cultural history, and the sociology of social movements.

Introduction??Part I: Fashioning and Refashioning Womanhoods?1. Echoes of Womanhood: Listening to Womens Voices on the Radio? 2. Womens Magazines and Fashion Magazines as (Re)Sources for (De)Constructing Womanhood: Working on Femininity, from Producers to Readers to Researchers? 3. The Right to Be Beautiful: Annie Malone, Beauty Culture, and New Negro Womanhood??Part II: Violence and Womanhood?4. The Paradox of Violent Women in the U.S. Antiabortion Movement 5. Gender-Based and State Violence from Central America to the U.S./Mexico Border: From Invisibility to Visibility? 6. Title IX: Fighting Sexual Violence on U.S. College Campuses by Reframing it as Sex Discrimination??Part III: Womanhood: Sites of Debate and Negotiation?7. Just a Housewife: Reassessing Feminist Portrayals of the American Housewife in the 1960s and 1970s??8. Legal Frames, Scientific Expertise, and Abortion Debates in the United States

Womanhoods and Equality in the United States explores how the idea of equality has evolved along with the debates that have animated contemporary American womens history.

This book argues that womanhood is neither a unified concept nor a monolithic experience but rather a multifaceted notion. This collection thus looks at this plural dimension of womanhoodwomanhoodswith a special focus on equality as a common goal. The authors question what equality means depending on many factors such as race, class, sexuality, education, maritl3¼