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Cover -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I The Capitalist Paradox: Expanding and Contracting Pleasures -- Sex and Society: A Research Note from Social History and Anthropology -- "Charity Girls" and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 -- Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II -- Capitalism and Gay Identity -- SECTION II Sexual Revolutions -- Family, Sexual Morality, and Popular Movements in Turn-of-the-Century America -- Feminism, Men, and Modern Love: Greenwich Village, 1900-1925 -- The New Woman and the Rationalization of Sexuality in Weimar Germany -- SECTION Ill The Institution of Heterosexuality -- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence -- Russian Working Women: Sexuality in Bonding Patterns and the Politics of Daily Life -- they're always curious -- The Afro-American Female: The Historical Context of the Construction of Sexual Identity Rennie Simson -- I Just Came Out Pregnant -- Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different -- Issues and Answers -- Garden Paths, Descents -- SECTION IV Domination, Submission, and the Unconscious -- Master and Slave: The Fantasy of Erotic Domination -- Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor -- Movie -- Street Dream #1 -- Is the Gaze Male? -- "The Mind That Burns in Each Body": Women, Rape, and Racial Violence -- Hearts of Darkness -- SECTION V On Sexual Openness -- Gender Systems, Ideology, and Sex Research -- The Teacher -- What We're Rollin Around in Bed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism -- In the Morning -- Bestiary -- A Story of a Girl and Her Dog -- SECTION VI Current Controversies -- Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- The New Feminism of Yin and Yang.

When I first heard that my college had formed ties with a prison and that some of our teaching assistants were already offering courses to inmates, I leapt to join on. I don't know how to prove that these prisoners have learned something useful and enduring. Though I think that each week was momentous, revelatory, this is a common teacher's delusion. Sit in the back of your own classroom sometime—as I have—and discover how far away the teacher and her enthusiasms can be. But the students were so sure it had all made a difference. On the evaluations they mentioned bits of new knowledge—several described with enthusiasm those militant suffragists—and said that, yes, they had explored new ideas and learned how to look critically at movies.

The author details her experience teaching a course on feminism through the use of films at a prison. Adapted from the source document.

On June 4, 2009, Poland celebrated the twenty-year mark since the first (partially) free elections in the Soviet bloc, the result of the roundtables where communist and Solidarity leaders negotiated what we now recognize as the beginning of the end of communism in all of East Central Europe. (Some recall this moment as a politically brilliant breakthrough to freedom, others as an unholy coalition between bankrupt socialist managers and neo-liberals.) Though my focus here is Polish women's organizing in these twenty years, for everyone the scale of social and economic reorganization is barely imaginable. Older people, often too busy recasting their lives to reflect on what such massive change means to them, have a fleeting sense of wonder. Those now in college were born in 1989; for them, life under communism is something their parents remember and can barely communicate, drowned out, as past experience is, in the cascade of new opportunities, new things to buy, new calls to urgent self-invention.

Examines Polish women's organizing in the two decades since the end of communism. The masculinity characterizing Poland's transformation is noted, along with the extent of women's collective weakness in the immediate postcommunist period as manifest in newly minted politically expedient antiabortion laws. The evolution of postcommunist Polish feminism is addressed, drawing on interviews with 15 activists attending the 2009 Congress of Women to provide a look at its fragmentation & growth & to consider how feminism & political opportunity might cross paths. Attention is given to the Congress, highlighting concerns regarding the turn to neoliberalism as a feminist stance & the state of feminist identity. D. Edelman. Adapted from the source document.

This lightweight book is being reviewed everywhere because of the following intensely engaging facts: Its author, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, was born into a prominent Muslim family in Somalia in 1969. Her father, Hirsi Magan, was a leader of the anticommunist opposition and was forced to flee Somalia—followed by his family—to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and finally, Kenya. During these years of strict Muslim girlhood, her grandmother saw to it that Ayaan had a clitoridectomy.

INEVITABLY, reviewers of The Caged Virgin are caught between judging the ins and outs of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's celebrity and evaluating the book itself, which is a loose (and often redundant) assemblage of brief articles, interviews, fragments of autobiography, an open letter of advice and encouragement to Muslim women who want to leave home, and the script for Submission. Hirsi AIi is, above all, disputatious; she is angry, passionate, and hits the ground arguing-with western policymakers, liberal multiculturalists, and anyone soft on such cultural practices as female genital mutilation, honor killings of women for lost virginity or any other form of independence, forced marriages, domestic violence, narrow religion-based education, or censorship through fatwa.