Part 1: Rethinking foundations : theorizing sex, gender, and sexuality. Anne Fausto-Sterling: "Dueling dualisms" ; Sharon E. Preves: "Intersex narratives : gender, medicine, and identity" ; Leila Rupp: "Toward a global history of same-sex sexuality" ; Laura M. Carpenter: "The ambiguity of sex and virginity loss : insights from feminist research methods" ; James W. Messerschmidt: "Goodbye to the sex-gender distinction, hello to embodied gender : on masculinities, bodies, and violence" ; Patricia Hill Collins: "Prisons for our bodies, closets for our minds : racism, heterosexism, and black sexuality" ; Abby L. Ferber: "Keeping sex in bounds : sexuality and the (de) construction of race and gender" ; Chrys Ingraham: "Heterosexuality : it's just not natural" -- Part 2: Examining our lives, expanding the boundaries. Ryan A. Flores: Poem: "Guess who?" ; Kaua'i Iki: "'O Au No Keia : voice from Hawai'i's Mahu and transgender communities" ; Nadine Naber: "Arab American femininities : beyond Arab virgin/American(ized) whore" ; Marisa Navarro: "Becoming La Mujer" ; Kate Harding: "How do you fuck a fat woman" ; Eli Clare: "Naming" and "losing home" from exile and pride ; Riki Anne Wilchins: "Click. Hello?" ; Sonya Bolus: "Loving outside simple lines" ; C. Jacob Hale: "Whose body is this anyway?" ; Ahoo Tabatabai: "Protecting the lesbian border : the tension between individual and communal authenticity" ; Carmen Yon-Leau and Miguel Muoz-Laboy: "'I don't like to say that I'm anything' : sexual politics and cultural critique among sexual minority Latino youth." Part 3: Context matters : power, knowledge, and institutions. Nellie Wong: Poem: "When I was growing up" ; Marsha Saxton: "Disability rights and selective abortion" ; Emily Martin: "The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles" ; Phyllis Burke: "Gender shock : exploding the myth of male and female" ; Tre Wentling: "Am I obsessed? Gender identity disorder, stress, and obsession" ; Siobhan Somerville: "Scientific racism and the invention of the homosexual body" ; Catherine Bolackledge: "The function of the orgasm" ; Shelly A. McGrath and Ruth A. Chananie-Hill: "'Big freaky looking women' : normalizing gender transgression through body building" ; Simone Weil Davis: "Loose lips sink ships" ; Eithne Luibhold: "Entry denied : controlling sexuality at the border" ; Melanie Heath: "State of our unions : marriage promotion and the contested power of heterosexuality" ; Lionel Cantu, Jr.: "The sexuality of migration : border crossings and mexican immigrant men" ; Kamala Kempadoo: "Women of color and the global sex trade transnational feminist perspectives" ; Andrea Smith: "Rape and war against native women" ; Barbara Perry: "Doing gender and doing gender inappropriately : violence against women, gay men, and lesbians" -- Part 4: (Re)envisioning community and social change. Ntozake Shange: Poem: "With no immediate cause" ; Tressa Anolin Navalta: "One in front of the other" ; Nova Gutierrez: "Visions of community for GLBT youth : resisting fragmentation, living whole: four female transgender students of color speak about school" ; Kate Woolfe: "It's not what you wear : fashioning a queer identity" ; Cindy Solomon: "Androgyny and faith" ; Cathy J. Cohen: "Contested membership : black gay identities and the politics of AIDS"; George Chauncey: "'What gay studies taught the court' : the historians' amicus brief in Lawrence v. Texas" ; Martin Rochlin: "Heterosexism in research : the heterosexual questionnaire" ; Avy Skolnik with The Colorado Anti-Violence Program (CAVP): "Privileges held by non-trans people" ; Judith Lorber: "A world without gender : making the revolution" ; Leslie Feinberg: "We are all works in progress."
Summary:
"Pushing the boundaries of traditional sex, gender, and sexuality theories, the second edition of this edited volume brings together classic and cutting-edge works that engage, challenge, and excite. The directed reading questions before each article provides students and faculty with a roadmap, as well as the foundations to lively in-class discussions. The front-and-center list of Key Terms will prove indispensable. This fantastic resource brings together sex, gender, and sexuality through the prism of race, ethnicity, religion, ability, age, and class."--Pub. desc.
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