Authentically Black, 173–74
Losing the Race, 173, 174
Mead, Margaret, 9
Melendez, Bill, 260–61
Melville, Herman, 212
Men’s Studies/Male Studies, 315–20
Mercado-Lopez, Larissa, 274
Mill, John Stuart, 334
The Subjection of Women, 54
Miller, James, 198
Miller, Stephen H., 204–5, 224
Millett, Kate, 55, 62, 69, 76, 100
and first-wave feminists, 55
and Marxism, 62
and second-wave feminism, 62, 69, 100
Sexual Politics, 60–61
Minkowitz, Donna, 204
Mohr, Richard D., 191–92, 209
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 131
Moraga, Cherríe, 241, 275–79
Morgan, Robin, 64
Morgan-Cato, Charlotte, 138–39, 143
Morrison, Toni, 150, 179, 321
Muhammad, Elijah, 158–59
multiculturalism, xiii, xiv, xvi, 113, 139, 329, 347
Muñoz, José Estevan, 184
Murray, George, 134
Mussolini, Benito, 15
Myrdal, Gunnar, xii–xiii
NAACP, 128
Naipaul, V. S., 27
Nathanson, Paul, 318
National Association for Chicano Studies, 243, 258
National Association of African American Studies, 174–77
National Association of Scholars (NAS), 340–41
National Organization for Women (NOW), 41, 51, 68, 119
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), 35–36, 44–54, 64, 73, 74, 76, 80, 104–7, 113–20, 310
Negro Digest, 132
Nemecek, Angela Lea, 308–9
neoliberalism, 30
Nevius, Marcus P., 175, 176, 177
New Critics, 6
New Historian, 7
New Left, 12, 24, 41, 189
Newton, Huey P., 132, 172
Niagara Movement, 129
Nieto Gómez, Anna, 242
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 217
Noriega, Chon, 286–90
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 77
Null, Michaela A., 310, 312
Nye, Andrea, Words of Power, 85
Obadele, Imari, 159
Obama, Barack, 167, 172, 174–75, 176, 178
Okazawa-Rey, Margo, 91
Olson, Walter, 336
Ordona, Trinity, 222
Orientalism (Said), 25–26, 27
Orwell, George, “Politics and the English Language,” 14, 23
“Other,” 30–31, 339
Ozick, Cynthia, 43
Paglia, Camille, xv, 78, 79
Pardo, Mary S., 275
Parks, Rosa, 131
Patai, Daphne, 72, 73, 76, 111, 336
Theory’s Empire, 8–9, 14, 46
patriarchy:
use of word, 77–78, 92–94, 317
and Women’s Studies, 61, 64, 77–78, 80, 84, 86, 92–94, 201, 317
Peace Studies, 90
Peña, Devon G., 243
Phúc, Kim, 1
Piercy, Marge, 96
Pipes, Daniel, 298
Place at the Table, A (Bawer), 204–5, 206
Planck, Max, 226
Plato, Symposium, 185
Politics of Women’s Studies, The, 70–72, 73
pornography, 65–66
Postcolonial Studies, 26–27, 45, 113
postmodernism, 8–10, 30–33, 329
and Black Studies, 144–47, 150
and Cultural Studies, 294, 300
and Disability Studies, 302–4
and Foucault, 11, 144
and gaze, 30–31
opposition to, 347–50
and Queer Theory, 45
self-referential dead ends in, 9
and Women’s Studies, 45, 77, 115
poststructuralism, 24, 242
Pound, Ezra, 139
problematization, 31
Proust, Marcel, 212
Puerto Rican Studies, 138
Queer Nation, 203, 204, 208
Queer Studies, 181–229
conformity in, 184–85, 205
and Disability Studies, 304–5
and Fat Studies, 314–15
and Foucault, 12, 183, 184, 190, 191–99, 207, 208
gay rights movement, 187
and Gay Studies, 185, 187–90, 199–201, 208, 220, 277
in Germany, 185–86, 218, 226
and homosexuality, 185–86, 190–91, 203–6, 208, 210, 213, 229
Humboldt University conference, 181–83, 226–29
and intersectionality, 35–36
Lesbian and Gay Studies, 191, 199, 200–203, 205, 207–8, 218–20
literary works queered in, 211–12
moral irresponsibility of, 183–84
and Sedgwick, 207–10, 211–16
and self-invention, 195
separatist agenda in, 210
and sexual identity, 190–91, 195, 208–10, 213
and sexual research, 185–86
and social constructionism, 189–91, 197–99, 207, 208, 217
and victimhood, 212–13
and Women’s Studies, 199–201, 207–8, 220
Queer Theory, 207–10, 220, 222–23
coining of term, 207
and feminism, 207–8
Genealogy of, 207–8
and identity problems, 208–10
and identity studies, 12
and postmodernism, 45
and power, 208
and separatism, 210, 213, 216
Raab, Heike, 305, 315
Rabinowitz, Dorothy, 333
race:
in identity studies, 34–35, 38–39, 46, 111
and Women’s Studies, 88, 99, 111
see also Black Studies
racism, 28
and Black Studies, 125, 132, 134, 140–41
Ramirez, Gloria A., 275
Ramirez, Pablo A., 285
rape-crisis movement, 64–67
Rasmusson, Sarah L., 291–93
Rastegar, Mitra, 297–99
rationality, as male way of knowing, 85
Reagan, Ronald, 134, 135
Rechy, John, 260
Reed, Autumn Marie, 116–18
Reed, Ishmael, 139, 146, 147, 150
reification, 32
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), 132, 133
Rich, Adrienne, 112, 202, 203
Richards, Amy, 119–20
Ricks, Christopher, 343
Rivera, Diego, 287
Rivers, Francis, 132
Rockefeller, John D., 128
Rodriguez, Richard, 277–78
Roediger, David, 321
Roiphe, Katie, The Morning After, 78–79
Rojas, Fabio, From Black Power to Black Studies, 131–33, 135, 136, 141, 162–63
Romano, Octavio I., 237–38
Roosevelt, Franklin D., xiv
Rose, Gillian, Feminism and Geography, 36–38, 85–86
Rosin, Hanna, 67–68
Rothblum, Esther, 309
Rothenberg, Paula, 321
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, 35
Rothman, David, 343
Rudenstine, Neil, 148
Ruffin, Valerie L., 108
Ruiz, Vicki L., 247
Russo, Maria, 211
Rustin, Bayard, 136, 158, 178
Sabbagh, Suha, 115
Said, Edward, 28, 29
Orientalism, 25–26, 27, 237
Salih, Sarah, 217
San Francisco State, 133–35
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 20, 30–31
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 24
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., 325, 348
The Disuniting of America, xi–xii, xiii–xiv
The Vital Center, xiv, xv
Scholer, J. Lawrence, 159
Schwartz, Stephen Adam, 294
Scott-Brown, Mary, 175
Seale, Bobby, 132
secular humanism, 10–12, 32–33
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 207, 208, 211–16
A Dialogue on Love, 211
Epistemology of the Closet, 212, 214, 215–16
on queering literary works, 211–12
on self-labeling, 209, 210
self-labeling, 209–10
Seneca Falls convention (1848), 55
sex, power of, 78
sex slaves, 115–16
Sexton, Jared, 178, 179
sexual identity, see Queer Studies
sexuality, as social construct, 112
Shakespeare, William, 327
Sharpton, Al, 150, 164, 167, 170
Shattuck, Roger, 343
Shaw, Peter, 341
Shepard, Matthew, 266
Silvergate, Harvey, 333
Simmons, Russell, 167
Simpson, Louis, 5–6
Simpson, O. J., 224, 226
slavery, 135, 156–58, 172
Smith, Emily Laurel, 309
social constructionism, 29–32, 77, 329
and Disability Studies, 302, 309
and Queer Studies, 189–91, 197–99, 207, 217
and Theory, 29–30, 33
and Whiteness Studies, 320
and Women’s Studies, 46, 96–97
social sciences:
analytical methods in, 11
and Cultural Studies, 294
Socrates, 329
Soldatenko, Michael, 237–41, 242, 246, 271
Chicano Studies, 263–65
Solovay, Sondra, 309
Solway, David, 9–10
somanormativity, 306
Sommers, Christina Hoff, 67, 74, 79, 85, 318, 340
Sontag, Susan, 43
Sowell, Thomas, 336
Spencer, Sandra L., 48
Spira, Tamira, 302
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 26, 117
Stafford, Jack, 187
Stalin, Joseph, 15, 331
Stanger, Anya, 90
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 55, 57
Steele, Shelby, 162, 174
and Black Studies, 121–27, 128, 148, 163, 171
and Chicano Studies, 231
The Content of Our Character, 172–73
and Gates, 143, 147, 149
and NAS, 340
Stein, Gertrude, 41
Steinem, Gloria, 78, 119
Stephens, Edward M., 318
Stern, Sol, 16–17, 19
Stiner, George and Larry, 160
Stone, Lucy, 55
Stonewall Riots, New York, 187
structuralism, 24, 242
Stryker, Susan, 181–82, 183, 226
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 133
Subaltern Studies, 26–27
suffrage, 54, 55
Sullivan, Andrew, Virtually Normal, 204
Summers, Lawrence, 68, 150
Take Back the Night, 66, 120
Tarule, Jill Mattuck, 88
Taylor, Lillian C., 313
Tea Party movement, 181–82
Theory, 13–14, 300
and social constructionism, 29–30, 33
Tholen, Minjon, 48, 52–53, 76
Thomas, Ardel, 221
Thompson, E. P., 259
Thompson, Martha E., 103
Thought Police, 331
Tiger, Lionel, 316, 318
Timmerman, Kenneth R., 170
Tobias, Sheila, 69, 71
Torres, Edén, 249–52, 253, 263, 276
Town Bloody Hall (video), 43, 45, 54
transsexuals, 186, 317
Trilling, Diana, 41, 42, 52
Turner, Lorenzo Dow, 131
Turner, William B., 207–10
UCLA, and Chicano Studies, 244–45, 286, 288
Ulrichs, Karl-Heinrich, 185, 186, 187, 210, 216, 220, 222
United Nations, 47, 53, 76
US (United Slaves) Organization, 159–60
Vaid, Urvashi, 205, 208, 210
Van Sertima, Ivan, 156
Vargas, Roberto, 240
Vásquez, Francisco H., 251, 257, 281–84
victimhood:
and Black Studies, 135, 139, 157–58, 173
and Chicano Studies, 238, 240–42, 250–52, 253
cult of, xiv, 33–38, 78, 106, 115
and Fat Studies, 313
and Queer Studies, 212–13
Victorial sexual stereotypes, 78, 85
Viramontes, Helena María, 285
Walker, Alice, 111, 177
Wallace, Christine, 62
Walton, Jean, 73
Washington, Booker T., 128–29, 151, 162, 172
“water buffalo” case, 332–33
Waters, Mary-Alice, 281
Watkins, Patti Lou, 312–13, 314
Weber, Max, 24
West, Cornel, 149–53, 163, 164
Keeping Faith, 151, 153
Race Matters, 151, 174
Wester, Maisha, 178–79
Western civilization courses, 329
White, Rachel, 315
Whiteness Studies, 320–23
Whitman, Walt, 147
Wilde, Oscar, 212
Wildmon, Donald, 228
Williams, Jarenda E., 175–76
Williams, Raymond, 300
Williams, Robert F., 132
Willingham, Christine Marie, 49, 53–54, 76, 106, 107
Wilson, William Julius, 124
Winfrey, Oprah, 106, 172
Winkler, John J., 189
Winter, Jasmine, 49–50
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 217
Wittig, Monique, 89, 112, 201
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 54, 57
women:
and anti-trafficking movement, 113–14
écriture féminine, 89–90
genital mutilation of, 113
heterosexual, 112, 202–3
and honor killing, 116–18
identity formation of, 87
and math problem, 84–85
nineteenth-century authors, 77
and the power of sex, 78
prostitutes, 113–14
sex slaves, 115–16
transgendered, 82–83
violence against, 64–67, 114, 200
in the workforce, 67–68
see also feminism; Women’s Studies
women of color, 111
Women’s Lib, 41, 51, 56–60
Women’s Lives (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey), 91
women’s movement, see feminism
Women’s Studies, 41–120
and abortion rights, 305–6
classroom experience, 90–103, 107
conformity promoted in, 47, 48–49, 53, 76, 89, 92
emergence of, 69–73
and Fat Studies, 309, 310, 314
and feminism, 54–70, 77–79, 112–14, 207, 277
and gender identity, 87–90, 199–200
and gender roles, 49, 59–60, 67
and Gender Studies, 74–75
and hegemony, 46
–47
hostility to men in, 64, 65–66, 80, 83–84, 85
influence of, 73–74
and intersectionality, 44–46
lesbian establishment in, 59, 112
NWSA conferences, 44–54, 80, 113–20
and patriarchy, 61, 64, 77–78, 80, 84, 86, 92–94, 201, 317
and political indoctrination, 69, 70–72, 73, 93, 98, 102
and postmodernism, 45, 77, 115
and Queer Studies, 199–201, 207–8, 220
and race, 88, 99, 111
self-referential nature of, 76–77, 79, 118
social constructionism in, 46, 96–97
and therapy, 103–11
and Town Bloody Hall video, 43, 45, 54
and Womyn’s Music Festival, 80–83
Women’s Studies (journal), 72
Women’s Ways of Knowing (Belenky et al.), 88
Womyn’s Music Festival, 80–83
Woodson, Carter G., 131
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse, 5
World War II, 55
Wynter, Sylvia, 143
Yale University:
Black Studies in, 136, 137–38
Lesbian and Gay Studies in, 218–20
Zapata, Emiliano, 233
Zeitlin, Froma, 189
Zinn, Howard, 179
A People’s History of the United States, 27–29
About the Author
BRUCE BAWER is the author of the critically acclaimed books While Europe Slept, Surrender, A Place at the Table, and Stealing Jesus. He is also a respected poet and translator who has published several collections of literary and film criticism. A native New Yorker, he has lived in Norway since 1999.
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