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This innovative reader contains foundational and cutting-edge articles representing a range of primary feminist research by established and early-career scholars. Editors Joya Misra, Mahala Dyer Stewart, and Marni Alyson Brown have carefully selected, edited, and introduced the selections with undergraduate students in mind, and address many key 21st century approaches to feminist scholarship throughout, including intersectional perspectives, global and transnational perspectives, a focus on transgender, and an emphasis on masculinity. Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings is also supported by a dynamic blog, where the editors connect the readings to current events and related online articles, films, short videos, and podcasts.Go beyond the text with the Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings blog here: https://gendersexualityreader.wordpress.com/
Contents
PrefaceIntroductionAcknowledgments1. Doing Gender - Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman2. Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations - Cecilia L. Ridgeway3. Defining Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins4. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Possibility of Change in Gender Relations - Claire Duncanson5. Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression - Jane Ward6. Globalizing Gender Issues: Many Voices, Different Choices - Christine E. Bose7. Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities - Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree8. Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race - Andrew M. Penner and Aliya Saperstein9. Becoming a "Trusted Outsider": Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Ethnographic Research - Sandra Meike Bucerius10. Studying Each Other: On Agency, Constraint, and Positionality in the Field - Tey Meadow11. The Sociology of Gender in Southern Perspective - Raewyn ConnellPART III: BODIES AND IDENTITY12. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools - Karin A. Martin13. Perilous Patches and Pitstaches: Imagined Versus Lived Experiences of Women's Body Hair Growth - Breanne Fahs14. The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons - Miliann Kang15. Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders - Tristan S. Bridges16. Body Modification and Trans Men: The Lived Realities of Gender Transition and Partner Intimacy - Katelynn Bishop17. Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam's Contemporary Sex Industry - Kimberly Kay HoangPART IV: CULTURE AND MEDIA18. Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films - Karin A. Martin and Emily Kazyak19. Is He Boyfriend Material? Representation of Males in Teenage Girls' Magazines - Kirsten B. Firminger20. Masculinity Dilemmas: Sexuality and Intimacy Talk Among Christians and Goths - Amy C. Wilkins21. "What Makes a Woman a Woman?" Versus "Our First Lady of Sport": A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the South African Media Coverage of Caster Semenya - Cheryl Cooky, Ranissa Dycus, and Shari L. Dworkin22. Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity and Embodied Nationalism in Nigerian Beauty Pageants - Oluwakemi M. BalogunPART V: RELIGION23. Women of God - Orit Avishai24. Negotiating Gendered Religious Space: The Particularities of Patriarchy in an African American Mosque - Pamela J. Prickett25. The Stakes of Gender and Heterosexuality - Melanie Heath26. Grit, Guts, and Vanilla Beans: Godly Masculinity in the Ex-Gay Movement - Lynne Gerber27. Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia - Rachel RinaldoPART VI: FAMILIES AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS28. Strength and Respectability: Black Women's Negotiation of Racialized Gender Ideals and the Role of Daughter-Father Relationships - Maria S. Johnson29. "How Could You Do This to Me?": How Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Latinas Negotiate Sexual Identity With Their Families - Katie Acosta30. Gendered Power Relations Among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black, Lesbian Stepfamilies - Mignon R. Moore31. Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism: Negotiating Structure and Agency in Transgender Families - Carla A. Pfeffer32. Transnational Fathering: Gendered Conflicts, Distant Disciplining and Emotional Gaps - Rhacel Salazar ParrenasPART VII: EDUCATION33. Gender, Debt, and Dropping Out of College - Rachel E. Dwyer, Randy Hodson, and Laura McCloud34. Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion: Urban Black Students Bussed to Affluent Suburban Schools - Simone Ispa-Landa35. "Not Out to Start a Revolution": Race, Gender, and Emotional Restraint Among Black University Men - Amy Wilkins36. "Now Why Do You Want to Know About That?": Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth - Lorena Garcia37. "Boys Over Here, Girls Over There": A Critical Literacy of Binary Gender in Schools - Susan W. Woolley38. Un/Doing Gender? A Case Study of School Policy and Practice in Zambia - Monisha BajajPART VIII: SPORT39. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming - Michela Musto40. The Female Signifiant in All-Women's Amateur Roller Derby - Jennifer Carlson41. "We're, Like, a Cute Rugby Team": How Whiteness and Heterosexuality Shape Women's Sense of Belonging in Rugby - Anima Adjepong42. Transgender Inclusion and the Changing Face of Lesbian Softball Leagues - Ann Travers and Jillian Deri43. "Silver Cups Versus Ice Creams": Parental Involvement With the Construction of Gender in the Field of Their Son's Soccer - Inge Claringbould and Johanna AdriaansePART IX: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS44. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations - Joan Acker45. A "Major Career Woman"? How Women Develop Early Expectations About Work - Sarah Damaske46. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences With Women's Work - Adia Harvey Wingfield47. Hegemonic Masculinity at Work in the Gay Adult Film Industry - Nathaniel B. Burke48. Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble? - Kristen Schilt and Catherine Connell49. Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Market-Embedded Labor and the Gender Organization of Global Service Work in China - Eileen M. OtisPART X: VIOLENCE, CRIME, AND INCARCERATION50. Normalizing Sexual Violence: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse - Heather R. Hlavka51. Rehabilitating Criminal Selves: Gendered Strategies in Community Corrections - Jessica J. B. Wyse52. The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity - Victor M. Rios53. "We're Like Community": Collective Identity and Collective Efficacy Among Transgender Women in Prisons for Men - Lori Sexton and Valerie Jenness54. Gender Violence Revisited: Lessons From Violent Victimization of Transgender Identified Individuals - Daniela Jauk55. Gendered Violence, Cultural Otherness, and Honour Crimes in Canadian National Logics - Dana M. OlwanPART XI: POLITICS, ACTIVISM, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS56. The International Women's Movement and Women's Political Representation, 1893-2003 - Pamela Paxton, Melanie M. Hughes, and Jennifer L. Green57. Multiple Inequalities, Intersectionality and the European Union - Mieke Verloo58. "Don't Deport Our Daddies": Gendering State Deportation Practices and Immigrant Organizing - Monisha Das Gupta59. Brothers and Others: Organizing Masculinity, Disorganizing Workers - Poulami Roychowdhury60. Patriarchal Accommodations: Women's Mobility and Policies of Gender Difference From Urban Iran to Migrant Mexico - Abigail Andrews and Nazanin Shahrokni
