Full Description
Overview of gender and gender inequalityThe authors assist students in connecting a central element of their own lives - their personal gender experiences - with the social and political world in which they live.This popular book looks at the ways in which gender is socially constructed, how sexism and gender inequality affect men and women, and how other variables compound the problem of gender inequality.Learning GoalsUpon completing this book, readers should be able to:Connect a central element of their personal lives - their gendered experiences - with the social and political world in which they live Look beyond the boundaries of their own lives so they can understand the complexity and diversity of gendered experiences in terms of race and ethnicity, cultural context, social class, sexual orientation, age, and physical ability/disability Understand how the constraints imposed on women and men by specific social constructions of gender may be tightened when combined with a devalued racial/ethnic status, sexual orientation, age, economic status, or physical trait or challenge Understand the diversity that makes up contemporary feminism, turning the analytic lens so that they see an issue from various feminist perspectives
Contents
IN THIS SECTION:Part I: Women and Men: What's the Difference?Chapter 1: Studying Gender: An Overview Chapter 2: Biology, Sex, and Gender: The Interaction of Nature and Environment Chapter 3: Ancestors and Neighbors: Social Constructions of Gender at Other Times, in Other Places Part II: Teaching Us to Know Our Respective Places Chapter 4: Gender Socialization in Childhood and AdolescenceChapter 5: Schools and Gender Chapter 6: The Great Communicators: Language and the Media Part III: Keeping Us in Our Respective Places Chapter 7: Gender and Intimate Relationships Chapter 8: Gender, Crime, and Justice Chapter 9: Gender and Spirituality Chapter 10: Gender and Health PART I: WOMEN AND MEN: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? Chapter 1: Studying Gender: An Overview Sociological Perspectives on GenderFeminism in Historical PerspectiveContemporary FeminismsThe Perspective of This TextKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 2: Biology, Sex, and Gender: The Interaction of Nature and Environment The Sex Chromosomes and Sexual DifferentiationThe Case for His and Hers Brains"My Hormones Made Me Do It"The Interaction of Biology and CultureKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 3: Ancestors and Neighbors: Social Constructions of Gender at Other Times, in Other Places Bones and Stones: The Archeological RecordOur Primate RelativesWomen and Men Elsewhere: Are Western Constructions of Gender Universal?Gender, Evolution, and CultureKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 4: Gender Socialization in Childhood and AdolescenceLearning GenderGrowing Up Feminine or MasculineEarly Peer Group SocializationBy the Time a Child is FiveKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 5: Schools and Gender An Historical Overview of Women and Men in EducationEducating Girls and Boys: The Elementary SchoolsEducating Teenage Girls and Boys: The Secondary SchoolsEducating Women and Men: Colleges and Graduate SchoolsStructuring More Positive Learning EnvironmentsGender, Education, and EmpowermentKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 6: The Great Communicators: Language and the Media Sexism and Language: What's in a Word?Gender and the MediaImages of Gender in the Media: What Are Their Effects?Language and the Media as Shapers of GenderKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 7: Gender and Intimate Relationships Sociology Constructs the FamilyEvaluating the Functionalist Perspective of the FamilySexuality, Sexual Orientation, and Reproductive FreedomVarieties of Intimate RelationshipsViolence in Families and Intimate RelationshipsFamilies and Other Intimates: The Idea and the Real RevisitedKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 8: Gender, Crime, and Justice Women and Men as OffendersWith Justice for All?Criminal Victimization: Gender Power, and ViolencePower, Crime, and JusticeKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 9: Gender and Spirituality Gender and ReligiosityGoddesses and WitchesTraditional Religious Teachings on GenderReligion, Politics, and Social ChangeChallenges to Religious Patriarchy: Feminist SpiritualityKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesChapter 10: Gender and Health Gender and MortalitySexism in Health CareGender, Sport, and FitnessThe Politics of Mental Health and Mental IllnessToward a Healthy FutureKey TermsSuggested ReadingsNotesGlossaryReferencesName IndexSubject Index
