Battleground : Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Guide to Related Topics ix Preface xiii Entries: Abortion 1(8) Affirmative Action 9(7) Aging 16(7) Barbie and the Feminine Ideal of Beauty 23(6) Beauty Industry 29(2) Beauty Pageants 31(7) Birth Control 38(7) Birthing Practices 45(9) Bisexuality 54(6) Breast Cancer 60(3) Breastfeeding 63(4) Child Custody and Parental Rights 67(6) Child Sexual Abuse 73(7) Childcare 80(7) Colonialism and Imperialism 87(10) Comparable Worth 97(2) Crime and Criminalization 99(10) Depression 109(2) Digital Technologies 111(3) Disability and Gender 114(10) Disability and Sexuality 124(3) Eating Disorders 127(7) Education 134(9) Environmental Justice 143(7) Equal Rights Amendment 150(3) Family Values 153(6) Fatherhood Initiatives 159(6) Female Sexuality and Dysfunction 165(7) Femininities and Masculinities 172(9) Feminist Art Practices 181(7) Feminization of Poverty 188(6) Fetal Rights 194(6) Fibromyalgia 200(3) Gender and Globalization: Free Trade Zones 203(3) Gender and Globalization: Trends and Debates 206(12) Gender and International Development 218(7) Gender Identity Disorder 225(2) Gender Socialization 227(6) Glass Ceiling 233(4) Heterosexism and Homophobia 237(8) HIV/AIDS 245(3) Homosexual Reparative Therapy 248(3) Human Rights: International Laws and Policies 251(8) Immigration: Laws and Policies Concerning Entry into the United States 259(8) Intersexuality 267(6) Intimate Partner Violence 273(8) Kinsey Scale of Sexual Behavior 281(8) Leftist Armed Struggle 289(2) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Movements 291(8) Lesbians and Gays in the Military 299(8) Mail-Order Brides 307(6) Media Images of Women: Advertising 313(7) Media Images of Women: Music 320(7) Media Images of Women: Television and Film 327(7) Medicine and Medicalization: Views on Women's Bodies 334(11) Menstruation and Menopause 345(6) Mental Health: Gender Biases in Diagnoses of Women 351(7) Mexican Female Migrants 358(7) Militarized Prostitution 365(2) Military History 367(8) Nationalism 375(6) Nature versus Nurture 381(8) Plastic Surgery, Tattooing, and Piercing 389(6) Political Parties 395(7) Politics and Political Ideologies: Leftist Women 402(7) Politics and Political Ideologies: Right-Wing Women 409(6) Polygamy 415(6) Population Policy 421(7) Pornography 428(7) Postfeminism 435(7) Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Feminisms 442(7) Queer 449(12) Race and Racism: Social Stratification in the United States 461(7) Race and Racism: Whiteness and White Supremacy 468(7) Religion 475(12) Religious Fundamentalism 487(7) Right-Wing Women's Movements 494(9) Sadomasochism, Domination, and Submission 503(2) Same-Sex Marriage 505(7) Second and Third Wave Feminisms 512(9) Self-Injury and Body Image 521(6) Sex Reassignment Surgery 527(3) Sex Trafficking 530(3) Sex versus Gender 533(7) Sex Work 540(10) Sexism in Language 550(6) Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment 556(7) Sexual Identity and Orientation 563(10) Sexual Orientation and the Law 573(6) Sports: Professional 579(8) Terrorism and National Security 587(6) Third Genders 593(3) Third World and Women of Color Feminisms 596(11) Title IX and Women's Sports 607(3) Transgender and Transsexual Identities 610(11) Welfare Reform 621(6) Work: Paid versus Unpaid 627(8) Bibliography 635(4) About the Editors and Contributors 639(6) Index 645