This cutting-edge reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The selections focus on gender itself - how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions. In order to avoid balkanization, the authors examine the various ways in which culture intersects with individuals to produce the range of presentations of self that we call 'gender', from people born male who become adult men to lesbian women to transmen, and everyone else on the diverse gender spectrum.
Author(s): Rebecca F. Plante, Lis M. Maurer
Publisher: Westview Press; Routledge
Year: 2010
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Section I: The Basics of Gender
CHAPTER 1: GENDER DIVERSITY AND THE BINARY
1 Doing Gender
2 Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender
3 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection
4 The Death of David Reimer: A Tale of Sex, Science, and Abuse
5 Whatever I Feel . . .
6 Defining and Producing Genitals
7 Subject: Her Baldness Meets Beth and Gets High on Gender
8 Hoowahyoo?
CHAPTER 1 STUDY QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 2: LEARNING HOW TO “DO GENDER”
9 What Difference Does Difference Make? Women, Race-Ethnicity, Social Class, and Social Change
10 Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood
11 “Dude, You’re a Fag”: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse
12 Masculine, Feminine or Human?
13 More than Men: Latino Feminist Masculinities and Intersectionality
14 Trans(re)lations: Lesbian and Female to Male Transsexual Accounts of Identity
15 Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: “Doing” Gender across Cultural Worlds
CHAPTER 2 STUDY QUESTIONS
Section II: The Microcosm of Gender: Individuals in Context
CHAPTER 3: CONSTRUCTING THE GENDERED BODY
16 The Effects of Images of African American Women in Hip Hop on Early Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Relationships
17 In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female Genital “Cosmetic” Surgery
18 My Life as an Intersexual
19 Part of the Package: Ideas of Masculinity among Male-Identified Transpeople
20 Diary of an Anorexic
21 Disciplining Bodies: The Aging Experiences of Older Heterosexual and Gay Men
CHAPTER 3 STUDY QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 4: DOING “IT”: SEXUALITIES
22 Sexual Needs, Control, and Refusal: How “Doing” Class and Gender Influences Sexual Risk Taking
23 “My Body Is Not the Same”: Body and Sexuality for White and Latina Long-Term Breast Cancer “Survivors”
24 Arab American Femininities: Beyond Arab Virgin/American(ized) Whore
25 Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities: Attitudes and Gender Expectations
26 Just a John? Pornography and Men’s Choices
27 The Misunderstood Gender: A Model of Modern Femme Identity
CHAPTER 4 STUDY QUESTIONS
Section III: The Macrocosm of Gender: Institutions, Structures, and Politics
CHAPTER 5: DOING GENDER DIVERSITY: AT HOME AND AT WORK
28 I Can’t Wait to Get Married: Gender Differences in Drive to Marry
29 Intimate Transitions: Transgender Practices of Partnering and Parenting
30 Can a Gay Man Be a Housewife? Gay Fathers Doing Gender, Family, and Parenting
31 Teaching and Doing Gender in African American Families
32 Gender, Capitalism and Globalization
33 Doing Gender, Doing Class: The Performance of Sexuality in Exotic Dance Clubs
34 “Real Men Are Tough Guys”: Hegemonic Masculinity and Safety in the Construction Industry
CHAPTER 5 STUDY QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 6: THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS IN OUR WORLD
35 Peeing in Peace: A Resource Guide for Transgender Activists and Allies
36 Gender-Neutral Restrooms
37 His and Hers: Gender and Garage Sales
38 I’d Rather Go Along and Be Considered a Man: Masculinity and Bystander Intervention
39 Men, Race, and Emotions: Men of Color and Masculine Productions
40 What the Pregnant Man Didn’t Deliver
41 Bad-Assed Honeys with a Difference: South Auckland Fa’afafine Talk about Identity
42 Deploying Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality in the Iraq War
CHAPTER 6 STUDY QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 7: RATTLING THE CAGE: SOCIAL CHANGE
43 What Is Gender-Normative Privilege?
44 But You’re So Queer for a Straight Guy! Affirming Complexities of Gendered Sexualities in Men
45 Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism
46 When the Girls Are Men: Negotiating Gender and Sexual Dynamics in a Study of Drag Queens
47 Sex, Celebration, and Justice: The Queerness and Disability Conference
48 Can’t We All Just Move Beyond? Everyday Manifestations of the Black/White Binary
CHAPTER 7 STUDY QUESTIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS
INDEX
