Introduction: Inequality and the Complex Positionalities of 21st Century Women Part I. An Unrealized Democracy
1. Beauty and the Beast of Inequality: A Historical Synopsis of Women’s Images as Barriers in American Labor, Politics and Entertainment
2. Proper Defectum Sexus: Male Privilege over a Woman’s Body
3. Democracy, Power, and Work
Part2: Negotiating Inequitable Terrain
4. Unfiltered: Male Strangers’ Sexist Behavior Towards Women
5. I am American! Taiwanese Immigrant Women Battling Everyday Racism
6. Queer Faces, Unsafe Spaces: Everyday Discrimination Experiences of Lesbian and Gender Non-Conforming Women
7. But I'm the Lucky One: A Narrative
8. Actors of Discourse: Gender Performativity in Women’s Leadership
9. The Cultural Negotiations of Gender through Religion among Algerian Kabyle
Part3. Psychosocial Effects of Inequality
10. Hair Stress: Physical and Mental Health Correlates of African American Women’s Hair Care Practices
11. Gender, Arthritis and Feelings of Sexual Obligation in Older Women
12. I’m a Survivor’: Reconsidering Identity, Stigma, and Institutions for Domestic Violence
Part4. Key Debates in Women’s Inequality
13. Is there Liberation for the Single, Saved, and Sexually Repressed
14. Sex Work: Free and Equal?
15. Reclaiming Women’s Rights to Freedom of Religion: An Assessment of the Political and Legal Complexities Affecting the Domestication of CEDAW and the AU Women’s Protocol in Nigeria
Part5. Pushing Back: Resistance and Activism
16. I’m Going to Get What I Want: Black Women’s Sexual Agency as a Form of Resistance
17. Raise Your Banner High! Mounting a Take Back the Night Event: Civic Engagement and Feminist Practice on a University Campus
18. Insisting on Intersectionality in the Vagina Monologues