Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings | 
| Authors: Susan M. Shaw, Janet Lee
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 42049
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
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Pages: 784
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 007311250X
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.42
EAN: 9780073112503
ASIN: 007311250X
Publication Date: December 14, 2005
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Condition: Reliable descriptions. Careful packing. Tight copy, approx 50% of pages contain underlines, highlighting and/or margin notes, none interfering with reading. Cover shows light creasing with curling at long edge, almost flat crease at top back cover corners, a few page tips fanned at every corner, rubbing to cover. Not pretty, but servicable.
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Product Description
This introductory women's studies reader offers a wide range of classic, conceptual, and experiential writings--over 105 selections in all. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. The anthology also offers numerous pedagogical features designed to engage students in active learning.
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 Never receive this book July 3, 2008
I never receive this the book and the seller never contact to me initiatively to tell me that the book is already unavailable... very disappointed.
 Womens vision May 31, 2007
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book sucks I think they tried to put to much information in here and didn't fully cover and explain what they were talking about.Plus the readings were extremely boring. I expected more from a book covering women it should have been very interesting.
Excellent textbook for Intro to Women's Studies October 27, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love this anthology for many reasons and find it ideal for an Intro level WS class. Each chapter begins with an introduction that summarizes the readings and puts them in a context. I expect the intros to be a little overwhelming for my students, but then we take time in class to discuss the key points and break them down to a more manageable level. Each chapter includes at least one essay with a global feminist perspective, which is one of the reasons I like this book. There is a good mix of essays representing minorities and essays that my students (who are predominately white, heterosexual Americans) "can relate to." Some of the essays are dry but very informative; when planning a class it might be best to present those in a powerpoint or lecture rather than have the students read them. This book contains many of the pivotal authors in the feminist movement, and hits all the major women's studies concepts. The only difficulty is figuring out what to excise from my syllabus, since there are *so* many readings I want to include and not enough class time to discuss them.
The negative reviews on this page seem to reflect the opinions of passive learners or students who need a lot of support to make sense of what they're reading. This book does *not* indicate that women who want to be housewives should receive our disdain, as one reviewer below indicates. It is instead very inclusive and allows for many perspectives to converse within its pages.
The book Listen Up is a good complement to this anthology, since its essays are informal and personal.
Lee's Student April 6, 2006
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have Lee as a professor right now. I thought it was interesting that she helped write the book, and then was going to teach with it. Well when we were assigned to read the first chapter the first class, I thought..how am I going to read the rest of this??! The way the book is set up, I can't even follow it. The terms are thrown in the middle of paragraphs, and it's difficult to follow along. I think it just seems like a lot of "babble" throught the whole thing. If things were set up better, I'm sure the ideas presented would be wonderful, but it's just difficult how it is.
 Great Introduction October 28, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is a great introduction for those who want to learn more about what feminism is all about. The book contains the history of the women's movement and articles from a variety of authors concerning the lives of women from different social and cultural backgrounds. The issue of race and sexuality are important topics in the book because depending on their background women have very different experiences with sexism. It delves deeply into the reality of oppression and how it effects everybody and not just a certain group of people. It's a great read if you would like to see women's issues from the perspective of a diverse range of people.
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