General introduction

Part I: It's not just about gender. The Puerto Rican dummy and the merciful son / Martín Espada ; From nothing, a consciousness / Helen Zia ; The past is ever present: recognizing the new racism / Patricia Hill Collins ; Angry women are building: issues and struggles facing American Indian women today / Paula Gunn Allen ; "J.A.P."-slapping: the politics of scapegoating / Ruth Atkin And Adrienne Rich ; Latinas on the fault lines of citizenship / Alejandra Marchevsky And Jeanne Theoharis ; White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy Mcintosh ; Controlled or autonomous: identity and the experience of the network, women living under Muslim laws / Farida Shaheed ; Under and (inside) western eyes: at the turn of the century / Chandra Talpade Mohanty ; Patriarchy, the system: an it, not a he, a them or an us / Allan G. Johnson

Part II: Gender socialization. The social construction of gender / Judith Lorber ; Boyhood, organized sports, and the construction of masculinities / Michael A. Messner ; Who's the fairest of them all? / Jill Nelson ; He defies you still: the memoirs of a sissy / Tommi Avicolli ; Growing up hidden / Linnea Due ; Masculinity as homophobia / Michael Kimmel

Part III: Embodiment. Making up is hard to do / Sheila Jeffreys ; "A way outa no way": eating problems among African American, Latina, and White women / Becky W. Thompson ; Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko ; Just walk on by: a Black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples ; Taking it / Leonard Kriegel ; I'm not fat, I'm Latina / Christy Haubegger ; The tyranny of the esthetic: surgery's most intimate violation / Martha Coventry

Part IV: Communication. For the White person who wants to know how to be my friend / Pat Parker ; Men and women are from Earth / Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers ; Real men don't cry ... and other "uncool" myths / Phil W. Petrie ; The new momism / Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels ; Claiming Jezebel: Black female subjectivity and sexual expressions in Hip-Hop / Ayana Byrd ; Where are the women? The strange case of the missing feminists. When was the last time you saw one on TV? / Laura Zimmerman

Part V: Sexuality. A pornographic world [What is normal?] / Robert Jensen ; The myth of the sexual athlete / Don Sabo ; Passing last summer / Dominika Bednarska ; The impact of multiple marginalization / Paula C. Rust

Part VI: Families. Contemporary challenges to Black women's reproductive rights / Jeanne Flavin ; Bloodmothers, othermothers, and women-centered networks / Patricia Hill Collins ; Dilemmas of involved fatherhood / Kathleen Gerson ; Man child: a Black lesbian feminist's response / Audre Lorde ; I am a man / Raul E. Ybarra ; What is marriage for? / E.J. Graff ; Free to marry, at last

May 17, 2004 / Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn

Part VII: Education. Missing in interaction / Myra and David Sadker ; "What about the boys?" What the current debates tell us

and don't tell us

about boys in school / Michael S. Kimmel ; Does gender matter? / Ben A. Barres ; Black and female: reflections on graduate school / bell hooks ; Mentors in violence preventing / Jackson Katz

Part VIII: Paid work and unemployment. The end of welfare as we know it: an overview of the PRWORA / Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis ; Sixty cents to a man's dollar / Ann Crittenden ; Global woman / Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild ; America's dirty work: migrant maids and modern-day slavery / Joy M. Zarembka ; The globetrotting sneaker / Cynthia Enloe ; The center of masculine production: gay athletes in professional sports / Eric Anderson ; Men at war: Vietnam and Agent Orange / Cynthia R. Daniels ; Fort Bragg: command / Jeffrey McGowan

Part IX: Violence at home and abroad. Women, violence, and resistance / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz ; Eminem's popularity is a major setback for girls and women / Jackson Katz ; Pictures of boyhood / Richard Hoffman ; Injury, gender, and trouble / Laurie Schaffner ; Homophobia in straight men / Terry A. Kupers ; The ultimate growth industry: trafficking in women and girls / Jan Goodwin ; How safe is America? / Desiree Taylor ; Wielding masculinity inside Abu Ghraib: making feminist sense of an American military scandal / Cynthia Enloe ; The private war of women soldiers / Helen Benedict

Part X: Health and illness. Masculinities and men's health: moving toward post-superman era prevention / Don Sabo ; Health care reform

a woman's issue / Catherine DeLorey ; Reproductive issues are essential survival issues for the Asian-American communities / Connie S. Chan ; Why the precautionary principle? A meditation on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the breasts of mothers / Sandra Steingraber ; Does silencio = muerte? Notes on translating the AIDS epidemic / Rafael Campo ; To be poor and transgender / Kai Wright

Part XI: A world that is truly human. Statement of principles / National Organization for Men Against Sexism ; New Black man / Mark Anthony Neal ; Feminism's future: young feminists of color take the mic / Daisy Hernández and Pandora L. Leong ; Tapping our strength / Eisa Nefertari Ulen ; The women's peace movement in Israel / Gila Svirsky ; Women's human rights: it's about time / Rita Arditti.