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Foreword by Alan Sinfield
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Women and Representation
Contemporary Women’s Theatre: The Plays
Feminist Constructions of Difference
Defining Race
Organization
1: Representations of Motherhood
And Who Would Call Her Mother?: Carers Without Control
Courts of Flaw: Representations of Lesbians and the Rights
of Lesbian Mothers
Fortunes at Low Tide
The Politics of Lesbian Motherhood: Strategies for Resistance
Conformity or Rebellion: Lesbian Families at Risk
2: Other Mothers
The Sex–gender/Race–gender System
Black Women and the Race: “Lifting as We Climb”
Re-constructing the “Chitlin-Circuit”: Race, Representation,
and Other Mothers
3: Friedan’s Daughters: Representations of “Woman”
at Work
The Return of the Happy Housewife: Feminists Re-forming “Woman”
Resurrecting the Cult of Domesticity
Who’s On Top? White Women, Work, and the Family
Power Feminism: The Genderquake
Working Across the Racial Divide: Imitating Anita
4: “Woman” as Object
Universal “Woman”: The Trojan Horse of Feminism
Colorizing Joan of Arc: Racialized Femininity and the Politics
of Appearance
The Pornography of Representation: Sex, Gender, Race, and
Rape
Erotophobes
Black Women and the Sexual Politics of Rape
5: “Woman” as Subject: Negotiating Multiple Identities
A Movement Out of Step With Itself
Women on the Borders of “Womanhood”: Negotiating Race, Sex,
and Gender(s)
Difference: What Makes a House a Home
Learning to Dance as Sisters
6: Infiltrating “Woman”: Butch/Fem Lesbian Subjectivity
Woman as Discursive Subject
The Butch/Fem Debate
Signs and Seduction
Butch, Fem, and the Mask of Womanliness
Performing Gender(s)
Conclusion: Toward a Progressive Feminist Politics – A House
of Difference
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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