Full Description
Undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender and sexuality across the social sciences.
Contents
Introduction - Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. ValentinePART I: PRISMSReading 1. Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism - Barbara J. RismanReading 2. What It Means to Be Gendered Me - Betsy LucalReading 3. Reflecting on Intersex: 25 Years of Activism, Mobilization, and Change - Georgiann Davis and Sharon PrevesReading 4. The Trouble with Testosterone - Robert M. SapolskyReading 5. "I Don't Like Passing as a Straight Woman": Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership - Carla A. PfefferReading 6. Multiple Genders Among Native Americans - Serena NandaJoan Z. SpadeReading 7. Intersectionality: A Transformative Paradigm in Feminist Theory and Social Justice - Bonnie Thornton Dill and Marla H. KohlmanReading 8. "I Was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures": Gender, Difference, and the Inner-City Girl - Nikki JonesReading 9. Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: "Doing" Gender Across Cultural Worlds - Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. JohnsonReading 10. Intersectionality in a Transnational World - Bandana PurkayasthaReading 11. "It's Only a Penis": Rape, Feminism, and Difference - Christine HelliwellReading 12. Conceptualizing Thai Genderscapes: Transformation and Continuity in the Thai Sex/Gender System - Dredge Byung'chu KangReading 13. Nocturnal Queers: Rent Boys' Masculinity in Istanbul - Cenk OEzbayReading 14. Accra Turns Lives Around: Female Migrant Traders and Their Empowerment Experiences in Accra, Ghana - Charlotte Wrigley-AsanteReading 15. Gender and Power - Maria Alexandra LepowskyPART II: PATTERNSCHAPTER 4: LEARNING AND DOING GENDER - Joan Z. SpadeReading 16. The Gender Binary Meets the Gender Variant Child: Parents' Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance - Elizabeth P. RahillyReading 17. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela MustoReading 18. Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters - Janice McCabe, Emily Fairchild, Liz Grauerholz, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and Daniel TopeReading 19. What Gender Is Science? - Maria CharlesReading 20. "Barbie Dolls" on the Pitch: Identity Work, Defensive Othering, and Inequality in Women's Rugby - Matthew B. EzzellCHAPTER 5: BUYING AND SELLING GENDER - Catherine G. ValentineReading 21. The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers - Adie NelsonReading 22. Performing Third World Poverty: Racialized Femininities in Sex Work - Kimberly HoangReading 23. Firming the Floppy Penis: Age, Class, and Gender Relations in the Lives of Old Men - Toni Calasanti and Neal KingReading 24. #RETHINKPINK: Moving Beyond Breast Cancer Awareness - Gayle SulikReading 25. "We Wear No Pants": Selling the Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials - Kyle Green and Madison Van OortCatherine G. ValentineReading 26. Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador - Erynn Masi De CasanovaReading 27. Individual Bodies, Collective State Interests: The Case of Israeli Combat Soldiers - Orna Sasson-LevyReading 28. Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone - Erin Hatton and Mary Nell TrautnerReading 29. "Freedom to" and "Freedom from": A New Vision for Sex-Positive Politics - Breanne FahsReading 30. "Malu": Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty in Transnational Indonesia - L. Ayu SaraswatiReading 31. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan AckerReading 32. Gendered Organizations in the New Economy - Christine L. Williams, Chandra Muller, and Kristine KilanskiReading 33. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences With Women's Work - Adia Harvey WingfieldReading 34. Hard Drives and Glass Ceilings: Gender Stratification in High-Tech Production - Steven C. McKayReading 35. (Un)Changing Institutions: Work, Family, and Gender in the New Economy - Amy S. WhartonReading 36. Preparing for Parenthood: Gender, Aspirations, and the Reproduction of Labor Market Inequality - Brooke Conroy BassReading 37. Negotiating Courtship: Reconciling Egalitarian Ideals with Traditional Gender Norms - Ellen LamontReading 38. When Dad Stays Home Too: Paternity Leave, Gender and Parenting - Erin M. RehelReading 39. Mothers, Fathers, and "Mathers": Negotiating a Lesbian Co-parental Identity - Irene Padavic and Jonniann ButterfieldReading 40. Fathering, Class, and Gender: A Comparison of Physicians and Emergency Medical Technicians - Carla Shows and Naomi GerstelReading 41. Her Support, His Support: Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity - Christin L. MunschCHAPTER 9: ENFORCING GENDER - Joan Z. SpadeReading 42. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options - Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. ArmstrongReading 43. Separating the Men From the Moms: The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports - Michael A. Messner and Suzel Bozada-DeasReading 44. Gendered Homophobia and the Contradictions of Workplace Discrimination for Women in the Building Trades - Amy M. Denissen and Abigail C. SaguyReading 45. Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage - Scott MelzerPART III: POSSIBILITIESReading 46. Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice - Laura Briggs, Faye Ginsburg, Elena R. Gutierrez, Rosalind Petchesky, Rayna Rapp, Andrea Smith, and Chikako TakeshitaReading 47. #FemFuture: Online Revolution - Courtney E. Martin and Vanessa ValentiReading 48. Building on "the Edge of Each Other's Battles": A Feminist of Color Multidimensional Lens - The Santa Cruz Feminist of Color CollectiveReading 49. Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change - Andrea SmithReading 50. Change Among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena - R. W. ConnellEpilogue: PossibilitiesAbout the Editors
