Catfight Women and Competition

Is the myth of the catfight real? Do women really resort to pettiness and backstabbing when in conflict with each other? Has it always been this way? With a sociologist's eye and a feminist's passion, the author of "Slut!" examines what happens when women compete.

LEORA TANENBAUM writes about women and girls and the unique problems they face. She is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, Catfight: Rivalries Among Women—From Diets to Dating, From the Boardroom to the Delivery Room, Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them, and Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. She lives in New York City.

introduction

13

(24)

The Roots of the Problem

37

(40)

Learning to Compete

39

(10)

Women Divided by Class and Race

49

(6)

Women and Resentment

55

(3)

Women's Essential'' Nature

58

(3)

Indirect Aggression

61

(3)

Members Only

64

(6)

Healthy Competition

70

(7)

Beauty

77

(58)

The Beauty Bind

82

(6)

Young, Thin, White

88

(6)

...And Well Dressed

94

(4)

History of the American Beauty Ideal

98

(7)

Miss America

105

(8)

Feminism and Beauty

113

(3)

Cosmetic Surgery

116

(3)

Who's the Thinnest of Them All?

119

(7)

Eating Disorders

126

(4)

Dieting Mothers, Dieting Daughters

130

(5)

Dating

135

(38)

The Other Woman in Literature

139

(6)

Dollars and Dependence

145

(6)

The New Singles Culture

151

(8)

The Other Woman Today

159

(6)

When the Other Woman Is Your Friend

165

(4)

Here Comes the Bride

169

(4)

Work

173

(52)

Sex Discrimination: Yes, It Still Exists

178

(5)

Job Insecurity

183

(9)

Tough as Nails

192

(4)

The Powerful Woman

196

(8)

The Female Advantage

204

(5)

Soft as Silk

209

(9)

Caution: Women At Work

218

(7)

Motherhood

225

(50)

The Isolation of New Mothers

228

(8)

The Sacrificial Mother

236

(13)

The Biggest Antagonism

249

(6)

Working Mothers

255

(12)

Stay-At-Home Mothers

267

(8)

When Women Work Together

275

(28)

The Suffrage Movement

275

(8)

Women in Sports Today

283

(8)

The Most Feminine Athlete Wins

291

(12)

epilogue

303

(4)

notes

307

(18)

acknowledgments

325

(2)

index

327

(9)

about the author

336

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Catfight Women and Competition

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