The Health Care System
85 The Politics of Women’s Health Care
OUR BODIES OURSELVES
BOX: The Millennium Development Goals: A Promise to the World’s Women
86 Mandatory Doctor’s Visit
DIANE HUGS
87 The Feminization of AIDS
MARIELENA ZUNIGA
88 “Necessity Was the Midwife of Our Politics”
DEBORAH R. GRAYSON
89 Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center
JAEL SILLIMAN, MARLENE FRIED, LORETTA ROSS, AND ELENA GUTTIEREZ
BOX: Gyno-to Lesbo-Chats
BOX: Focus on Lesbian Health
90 Breast Cancer Activism: Moving Beyond the Mammography Debate
SABRINA MCCORMICK
BOX: Top 10 Breast Cancer Myths Debunked
Reproductive Justice
91 What Is Reproductive Justice?
LORETTA ROSS
92 Conditions of Reproductive Justice
RICKIE SOLINGER
93 Voices of Reproductive Justice
Disabled Women and Reproductive Justice
MIA MINGUS
Reproductive Justice Issues for Asian and Pacific Islander Women
MARIA NAKAE
Made in the USA: Advancing Reproductive Justice in the Immigration Debate
PRISCILLA HUANG
Abortion Matters to Reproductive Justice
LEILA HESSINI, LONNA HAYS, EMILY TURNER, AND SARAH PACKER
BOX: “Pharmacists’ Refusals”
CAROLE JOFFE
94 Abortion: Is a Woman a Person?
ELLEN WILLIS
95 Lost Woman Song
ANI DIFRANCO
96 Talking with the Enemy
ANNE FOWLER, NICKI NICHOLS GAMBLE, FRANCES X. HOGAN, MELISSA KOGUT, MADELINE MCCOMISH, AND BARBARA THORP
BOX: Pro-choice/Pro-life
97 Parental Consent Laws: Are They a “Reasonable Compromise”?
MIKE MALES
98 Testimony of William Bell
CONNECTICUT STATE LEGISLATURE
99 Using Pregnancy to Control Women
RUTH HUBBARD
BOX: Access to Safe Abortion Is a Human Right
100 Reclaiming Choice for Native Women
JESSICA YEE
101 Abortion in the United States: Barriers to Access
MARLENE GERBER FRIED
(24.0K)CHAPTER VI: MATRICES OF PRIVILEGE AND OPPRESSION
Take a Closer Look: Racism in Women’s Lives
102 Defining Racism: “Can We Talk?”
BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM
103 Codes of Conduct
ADRIENNE SU
104 Salad
JANICE MIRIKITANI
105 I Am Not Your Princess
CHRYSTOS
106 Take a Closer Look
CARRIE CASTRO
107 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
PEGGY MCINTOSH
108 An Autobiography
ANGELA DAVIS
The Legacy of Class
109 Tired of Playing Monopoly?
DONNA LANGSTON
110 Sisters
BARBARA NEELY
111 Jewish and Working Class
vBERNICE MENNIS
112 Poverty, Hopelessness, and Hope
KENDALL A. JOHNSON
113 Grace Paley Reading
TOI DERRICOTTE
“Are You Some Kind of Dyke?”: The Perils of Heterosexism
114 Homophobia and Sexism
SUZANNE PHARR
115 Cat 434
JULIE BLACKWOMON
116 Chicana Lesbians: Fear and Loathing in the Chicano Community
CARLA TRUJILLO
117 Livin’ in a Gay Family
MEGAN MCGUIRE
118 I Lost It at the Movies
JEWELLE GOMEZ
Older, Wiser, and Marginalized: Ageism in Women’s Lives
119 Older Women: The Realities
OLDER WOMEN’S LEAGUE
120 The Women in the Tower
CYNTHIA RICH
121 The Day Nani Fell and I Wasn’t There to Catch Her
ANNA MARIE QUEVEDO
122 Over the Hill and Out of Sight
JANICE KEAFFABER
BOX: She Who Once Was
REBECCA MCCLANAHAN
Nations, Boundaries, and Belonging: Citizenship in Women’s Lives
123 The Tale of Two Worlds: Unpacking the Power of the Global North over the Global South
GOWRI PARAMESWARAN
124 Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
BOX: Why Can’t “They” Just Wait in Line and Become Legal? Here’s Why
125 Mothers of Our Nations: Indigenous Women Address the World
WINONA LADUKE
126 What’s in a Name
ANIDA YOEU ALI
127 Human Security vs. National Security
CHARLOTTE BUNCH
Borderlands and Intersections
128 Rights, Realities, and Issues of Women with Disabilities
LAURA HERSHEY
BOX: Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy
MARI MATSUDA
129 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefi ning Difference
AUDRE LORDE
130 Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of Hapa and Bisexual Identities
BEVERLY YUEN THOMPSON