Living With Contradictions Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics [Paperback]

This book explores some of the moral and public policy issues that divide Western, especially North American, feminists as the twentieth century ends and the twenty-first century begins. It represents an in-house discussion among feminists and their social ethics.Credits -- Introduction: Living with Contradictions -- Equality -- Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality -- Reconstructing Sexual Equality -- Toward Feminist Jurisprudence -- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics -- Women Working -- Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth -- Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified -- Fairness, Meritocracy, and Reverse Discrimination -- The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts -- An Argument Against Comparable Worth -- Some Implications of Comparable Worth -- Sex Work -- Prostitution -- A Most Useful Tool -- Stripper -- Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution -- Whats Wrong with Prostitution? -- International Committee for Prostitutes Rights World Charter and World Whores Congress Statements -- Marketing Femininity -- Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture -- Why Pornography Matters to Feminists -- Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look -- Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography -- False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation -- Racism in Pornography and the Womens Movement -- Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star -- The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality -- Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different -- Ways of Seeing -- Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty -- Whats Wrong with Being a Sex Object? -- Bibo -- The Unadorned Feminist -- Gynocide: Chinese Footbinding -- Do Something About Your Weight -- Hunger -- Skin Deep -- Marieme -- The Myth of the Perfect Body -- Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Womens Bodies -- Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self -- Womens FertilityIndlS’