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The publication of Women's Realities, Women's Choices-- the first interdisciplinary text for an introductory course in women's studies--marks the coming of age of the field of women's studies. The result of a collective effort to devise a course that transcends the traditional academic boundaries, this text is completely interdisciplinary in approach. It incorporates research from all the major disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and political science; covers the development of women from the classical period to the present day; and provides an accessible, scholarly text for the field of women's studies. While the central goal of this text is to introduce students to the research and theories that are of current interest to women's studies scholars, the text also addresses a wide range of controversial topics relating to sexism, such as racism, homophobia, and class conflict.

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• Each chapter ends with a Summary, Discussion Questions, Recommended Readings, and References
• Introduction
• Women's Studies in the Twenty-first Century
• What is Women's Studies
• Women's Studies and Feminism
• History of Women's Studies
• Missing Information About Humans
• Changed Views of Women and Men
• Issues and Goals
• Race, Class, and Other Oppressions
• Women's Studies as an Academic Discipline
• Women's Studies as a Source of Strength
• How this Book Presents Women's Studies
• References
• I Defining Women
• 1 Imagery and Symbolism in the Definition of Women
• The Meaning of Imagery and Symbolism
• Experience, Perception, and the Symbolic Construction of Reality
• Classification and Perception
• Shaping of Reality
• Imagery and Symbolism in the Definition of Women
• The Construction of Images and Symbols
• The Use of Symbols and Their Influence
• The Use of Symbols and Their Influence
• Language
• Myths, Fantasies, and Imagery
• Some Predominant Imagery
• Frightening Females
• Venerated Madonnas
• Sex Objects
• Earth Mothers
• Women as Invisible
• The Effect of thee Images on Women
• Changing Reality by Changing Images
• Participating in Imagery Construction:
• An Example
• Women Define Themselves
• Women's Search for Self through Art
• Historical Perspective
• Contemporary Feminist Imagery
• Women's Search for Self through Literature
• Discovering Models in Women's Culture
• The Heroine
• Women's Words
• Women's Identity in Utopia
• The Propagation of Feminist Imagery of Women
• Conclusion: Being Whole
• 2 Ideas and Theories about Women
• Definitions and Theories
• Women as "Other"
• Women's "Nature"
• Contemporary Efforts to Define "Woman"
• Rethinking Knowledge
• Feminist Diversity
• Ideas about Freedom and Equality
• Liberalism and Feminism
• Wollstonecraft
• Mill and Taylor
• Contemporary Liberal Feminism
• Conservative Sentiments and Feminism
• Alternative Contemporary Feminist Views
• Socialist Feminism
• Radical Feminism
• Other Western Feminisms
• The Ethics of Care
• A Feminist Agenda
• Principles in Action
• 3 Women's Bodies
• The Body as Cultural Construct
• Feminism and the Body
• Mind/Body Dualism
• The Body as Natural
• The Nature of Sex Differences
• The Gendered Brain
• Sex(ing) Hormones
• Genital Anatomy
• Chromosomes
• The Politics of "Nature"
• Discourse/Knowledge/Power
• The Medicalization of the Body
• Discourses of Sexuality
• Body as Text
• The Commodified Body
• The Visibility Politics of the Body
• The Reproductive Politics of the Body
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Recommended Readings
• References
• 4 Women's Personalities
• Explanations for Differences between Women and Men
• Nature versus Nurture
• Biases in Research Studies
• Is Anatomy Destiny?
• Evolutionary Theories
• Traditional Psychoanalytic Theory
• Alternative Feminist Psychodynamic Theories
• The Importance of Culture
• The Importance of Relatedness
• Feminism and the Lacanian Turn
• Cognitive-Developmental Theory
• Social