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List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Social and Philosophical Issues in Women's Experience	p. 13
Reconstructing Site as Insight: Reflections of a Feminist Ethnographer	p. 15
The Feminist Center of Global Labor Movements	p. 31
Gender and the Challenge of Social Construction: Mary, the Mother of Jesus	p. 49
Language and Gender Theory	p. 65
Feminist Theory and Its Implications for Women and Language Study	p. 67
Stirring Women into Adventure	p. 89
"Busting the Masculine Mystique": Failure as Empowerment in Men in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature	p. 107
Women's Psychological and Biological Issues	p. 125
Death and Society: A Feminist Perspective	p. 127
Abortion and Pornography: Issues of Symbolic Politics	p. 143
Women's Popular Culture and Performing Arts	p. 161
Popular Culture: An Introduction	p. 163
Representations of the Feminine Ideal in Women's Popular Periodicals from 1920 to 1996: Considerations of Race and Class	p. 181
What the Wise Men Say: Moral Modernization and Cultural Contradictions in The Snapper	p. 207
Literature and Gender Relations	p. 219
"I' th' posture of a whore": Shakespeare and the Female Hero	p. 221
"The Thing That Really Counts": Gender Identity in Stevie Smith's Novel on Yellow Paper	p. 235
Latin American Women Writers and the Construction of a National Patrimony	p. 247
Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 265
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