Full Description
Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism: Readings in Gender Studies is a set of interdisciplinary essays that provides students the means to describe and analyse how gender stereotypes develop and their importance in shaping everyday decisions. These readings draw on a wide range of authors, including novelists, journalists, sociologists, psychologists, and historians.
The second edition of Unsexing Gender, Engendering Activism:
encompasses the rapidly growing discipline of women, gender, and sexuality.
frames each essay with pre-reading questions, key terms, and listed related readings that guide student reading, and provides space and prompts for reflection.
encourages readers to apply text concepts to contemporary society.
includes four new readings with the new 2nd edition.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword - Kathleen Underwood
Preface - Danielle M. DeMuth
New to This Edition - Ayana K. Weekley
Alphabetical List of Authors and Essays
Thematic List of Authors and Essays
About the Editors
Asking for Consent is Sexy - Andrew Abrams
Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States - Vivyan C. Adair
Sex(less) Education - Stephanie Block
Toward a New Vision - Patricia Hill Collins
Bisexuality and the Case Against Dualism - Stephanie Fairyington
We Are All Works in Progress - Leslie Feinberg
Oppression - Marilyn Frye
My Life as a Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
X: A Fabulous Child's Story - Lois Gould
It's Only a Penis - Christine Helliwell
Race and Gender - bell hooks
Privilege, Power, Difference, and Us - Allan G. Johnson
More than a Few Good Men - Jackson Katz
Uses of the Erotic - Audre Lorde
White Privilege - Peggy McIntosh
Dude You're A Fag - C.J. Pascoe
Swept Awake! Negotiating Passion on Campus - Bonnie Pfister
Homophobia - Suzanne Pharr
Claiming an Education - Adrienne Rich
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence - Adrienne Rich
The Chilly Climate - Bernice R. Sandler
Boygasms and Girlgasms - Julia Serano
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Appendix of Exercises
Index
