Talking back / Bell Hooks -- Sins of silence / Mai Kao Thao -- Claiming an education / Adrienne Rich -- Politics of Black women's studies / Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull and Barbara Smith -- Men and women's studies: premises, perils, and promise / Michael Kimmel -- Have you ever heard of Asian-American feminists / Stacey G.H. Yap -- Voices of women's studies students -- Women's studies as a growth process / Danista Hunte -- Finding my Latina identity through women's studies / Luana Ferreira -- What women's studies has meant to me / Lucita Woods -- Why women's studies? / Deborah Halstead Lennon -- Women's studies: a man's perspective / Evan Weissman -- American university and women's studies / Carol T. Christ -- Problem that has no name / Betty Friedan -- Work of artifice / Marge Perry -- Purification / Gracepoore -- To be real / Danzy Senna -- Blazes of truth / Susan Schnur -- In search of liberation / Debra Kent -- Brideland / Naomi Wolf -- On being a "good girl": implications for Latinas in the United States / Elisa Dávila -- not a pretty girl / Ani Difranco -- Gift / Murielle Minard -- Klaus Barbie, and other dolls I'd like to see / Susan Jane Gilman -- Allegra Maud Goldman / Edith Konecky -- Gender equity in the classroom: the unfinished agenda / Myra Sadker, David Sadker, Lynn Fox, and Melinda Salata -- Something's wrong here and it's not me: challenging the dilemmas that block girls' success / Lee Anne Bell -- Sexual politics of interpersonal behavior / Nancy Henley and Jo Freeman -- Teen mags: how to get a guy, drop 20 pounds, and lose your self-esteem / Anastasia Higginbotham -- Media images, feminist issues / Deborah L. Rhode -- Female images and roles in music / Venise T. Berry -- Mutineers in mainstream music: heralds of a new feminist wave / Naomi Weisstein -- Video / India.Arie -- X: a fabulous child's story / Lois Gould -- Beauty of myth / Naomi Wolf -- When I was growing up / Nellie Wong -- To other women who were ugly once / Inés Hernandez-Avila -- Nose is a country... I am the second generation / Aishe Berger -- Homage to my hair / Lucille Clifton -- One spring / Lesléa Newman -- Body politic / Abra Fortune Chernik -- Breaking the model / Graciela (Chely) Rodriguez -- Arroz con pollo v. slim-fast / Linda Delgado -- Fat girl rules the world / July Siebecker -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- Beauty: when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- Lusting for freedom / Rebecca Walker -- "We don't sleep around like white girls do": family, culture, and gender in Filipina-American lives / Yen Le Espiritu -- Esta Risa no es de loca / Caridad Souza -- Safer sex is real sex / Zoe Leonard -- Pleasures / Diane Hugs -- Loving another woman / Anne Koedt -- Turn on / Marge Piercy -- Bisexuality, feminism, men and me / Robyn Ochs -- Overview of women and work / Ellen Bravo and Gloria Santa Anna -- Questions and answers on pay equity / National Committee for Pay Equity -- Politics of housework / Pat Mainardi of Redstockings -- Price of motherhood: why the most important job in the world is still the least valued / Ann Crittenden -- Friendly for whose family? / Betty Holcomb -- 9to5: organizing low-wage women / Ellen Bravo and Gloria Santa Anna -- Sexual harassment: an overview of its impact on women / Julia Whealin -- In case of sexual harassment: a guide for women students / Bernice Sandler -- Women / Alice Walker -- Women and the law / Kristian Miccio -- How to bring children up without putting women down / Ann Crittendon -- Exploding the stereotypes: welfare / Rita Henley Jensen -- Farewell to welfare but not to poverty / Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly -- Welfare reform, family hardship, and women of color / Linda Burnham -- Family and women's lives / Susan Lehrer -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Long story / Beth Brant -- Elena / Pat Mora -- "Don't you talk about my Mama!" / June Jordan -- Working at single bliss / Mary Helen Washington -- Marriage agreement / My church threw me out / May Ann Sorrentino -- Reactions to a woman Rabbi / Laura Geller -- Christian fundamentalism: patriarchy, sexuality, and human rights / Susan D. Rose -- Revelations / Linda Villarosa -- How women get bad medicine / Carol Stevens -- Mandatory doctor's visit / Diane Hugs -- Elizabeth Ramos / Bebe Nixon -- Missing persons: African-American women, AIDS, and the history of disease / Evelynn Hammonds -- Breast cancer: is it the environment? / MS -- Abortion: is a woman a person? / Ellen Willis -- Lost woman song / Ani Difranco -- Talking with the enemy / Anne Fowler, Nicki Nichols Gamble, Frances S. Hogan, Melissa Kogut, Madeline Mccomish, and Barbara Thorp -- Parental consent laws: are they a "reasonable compromise"? / Mike Males -- Testimony of William Bell (on Raised Bill #5447) / Connecticut State Legislature -- Using pregnancy to control women / Ruth Hubbard -- Killing the Black body / Dorothy Roberts -- Developing a reproductive rights agenda for the next century/ Kathryn Kolbert -- Defining racism: "can we talk?" / Beverly Daniel Tatum -- Codes of conduct / Adrienne Su -- Salad / Janice Mirikitani -- I am not your princess / Chrystos -- Take a closer look / Carrie Castro -- Autobiography (excerpt) / Angela Davis -- Tired of playing monopoly? / Donna Langston -- Context / Dorothy Allison -- Sisters / Barbara Neely -- Jewish and working class / Bernice A. Johnson -- Poverty, hopelessness, and hope / Kendall A. Johnson -- Grace Paley reading / Toi Derricotte -- Homophobia and sexism / Suzanne Pharr -- Chicana lesbians: fear and loathing in the Chicano community / Carl Trujillo -- Livin' in a gay family / Megan McGuire -- I lost it all at the movies / Jewelle Gomez -- Older women: the realities / Older Women's League -- Women in the tower / Cynthia Rich -- Day Nani fell and I wasn't there to catch her / Anna Marie Quevedo -- White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh -- Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference / Audre Lorde -- Fence sitters, switch hitters, and bi-bi girls: an exploration of hap and bisexual identities / Beverly Yuen Thompson -- Boundaries: Arab/American / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Friday night / Linda Hogan -- Battering: who's going to stop it? / Ann Jones -- Letter from a battered wife / Del Martin -- Club / Mitsuye Yamada -- Countdown / Lanette Fisher-Hertz -- La princesa / Latina Anónima -- Holding up more than half the heavens / Margaretta Wan Lin and Cheng Imm Tan -- Rape, the all-American crime / Susan Griffin -- Shame of silence / Athena Devlin -- Whose body is it anyway? / Pamela Fletcher -- With no immediate cause / Ntosake Shange -- Naming and studying acquaintance rape / Peggy Reeves Sanday -- Protecting male abusers and punishing the women who confront them: the current status of child-sex abuse / Lanette Fisher-Hertz -- Making sense of the experience of incest survivors / Peri L. Rainbow -- Fairy summer-or how I learned to wash dishes / Ruth Innes -- Bubba Fisher, 1888 / Ruth Whitman -- History of feminist movements in the U.S. / Amy Kesselman -- Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848 -- Sojourner Truth's defense of the rights of women -- Consciousness raising: a radical weapon / Kathie Sarachild -- Boston Women's Health Book Collective / Susan Brownmiller -- Introduction to home girls: a Black feminist anthology / Barbara Smith -- Development of Chicana feminist discourse / Alma Garcia -- Thoughts on Indian feminism / Kate Shanley -- Presenting the blue goddess: toward a national Pan-Asian feminist agenda / Sonia Shah -- Blame it on feminism / Susan Faludi -- Bringing the global home / Charlotte Bunch -- Advancing women's rights: Beijing '95 and after / Charlotte Bunch and Susana Fried -- Globetrotting sneaker / Cynthia Enloe -- style no. 1 / Sonia Sanchez -- Becoming the third wave / Rebecca Walker -- Why I an activist / Nell Geisher -- Voices / Women of ACE (AIDS counseling and education), Bedford Hills Correctional Facility -- Black feminism at twenty-one: reflections on the evolution of a national community / Barbara Ramsby -- "Each day I go home with a new wound in my heart" / Miriam Ching Yoon Louie -- Just sex: students rewrite the rules on sex, violence and equality / Jodi Gold and Susan Villari -- Manifesta: young women, feminism, and the future / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards -- Voices of women's studies graduates: real life: women's studies in action / Lori Gross -- Bringing women's studies to a battered women's shelter / Colleen Farrell -- Becoming a feminist physician / Sharon Thompson.