Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology - Softcover

Kesselman, Amy; McNair, Lily D; Schniedewind, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767420896 ISBN 13: 9780767420891

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002

Synopsis

Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women’s studies. This best-selling text presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women’s lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women’s experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women’s diverse approaches to living and changing.hanging.

About this title

From the Publisher:

New selections feature young women's voices as they discuss their lives and activism
Reorganized content so that reproductive rights are discussed in the section on health, and ageism is integrated into the section on systems and discrimination
A new section of the text (Part 7) addresses violence against women
Thirty nine of the 161 selections are new to this edition, and present up-to-date discussions of various topics from women of diverse backgrounds.
Introductions and several articles have been rewritten to reflect most recent developments in the field.
Students are introduced to basic concepts of feminism in an accessible and engaging manner.
The text celebrates differences among women through the voices of women of all ages, varied sexual orientations, and different ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds
Women: Images and Realities addresses some of the systems of domination that interact with gender in women's lives and can divide women from each other.

About the Author:

Amy Kesselman was born in NYC and received her BA in history from the City College of New York. An activist in the early women’s liberation movement, she returned to school to study women’s history at Portland State University, where she received a Master’s Degree in history. After teaching women’s studies in the Portland area for several years, she entered a doctoral program at Cornell University where she received a Ph.D. in history with a minor in women’s studies. She is currently Professor of Women’s Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz where she has been teaching since 1981. In addition to co-editing Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology (McGraw-Hill 2003, Mayfield 1995, 1999), she is the author of Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion,(SUNY Press, 1990) and several articles about the history of feminism in the United States. She is currently working on a study of women’s liberation in New Haven, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0767420896
• ISBN 13: 9780767420891
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 640