Taking back our lives : a call to action for the feminist movement /

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Author / Creator:Russo, Ann, 1957-
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2001.
Description:x, 261 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4477374
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ISBN:0415927102 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0415927110 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-254) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Transforming Feminist Theorizing
  • 1. If Not Now, When? Contemporary Feminist Movement to End Violence against Women
  • 2. Lesbians, Prostitutes, Media, and Murder: The Violence Against Women and the Violence Women Commit
  • 3. Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Battering: Homophobia, Heterosexism and Violence
  • Part II. Truthtelling
  • 4. Pornography's Stories: Eroticizing Inequality, Hierarchy, and Historical Atrocity
  • 5. Lesbian Porn Stories: Rebellion or Resistance?
  • 6. Sexual Conflicts and Contradictions: Violence, Desire, Autonomy, Freedom
  • Part III. Interlocking Oppressions
  • 7. Violence By Any Name: A Battered Lesbian Fights for Recognition
  • 8. White Men Can't Kill: Racial Coding of Men's Intimate Violence Against Women
  • 9. Taking Back Our Lives: Expanding Campus Efforts to End Sexual Violence
  • Part IV. Transforming Feminist Resistance
  • 10. The Struggle for Integrity in an Unjust World: Telling Our Stories
  • 11. On Becoming an Antiracist Feminist: Strategies to Recognize and Disrupt White Privilege and Power