Complements the text: The gendered society. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Anatomy and destiny: biological arguments about gender difference. Psychological sex differences: origins through sexual selection / Davis M. Buss -- Believing is seeing: biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Testosterone rules / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Pt. 2. Cultural constructions of gender. Sex and temperament in three primitive societies / Margaret Mead -- Coming of age and coming out ceremonies across cultures / Gilbert Herdt -- Doing difference / Candace West and Sarah Fenstermaker -- Pt. 3. Psychology of sex roles. The gender similarities hypothesis / Janet Shibley Hyde -- "Dude, you're a fag": adolescent masculinity and the fag discourse / C.J. Pascoe -- The exotic-becomes-erotic theory of sexual orientation / Daryl J. Bem -- Pt. 4. The social construction of gender relations. Boundaries, negotiation, consciousness: reconceptualizing gender relations / Judith M. Gerson and Kathy Peiss -- Doing gender / Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman -- Beards, breasts, and bodies: doing sex in a gendered world / Raine Dozier -- Pt. 5. The gendered family. Modern marriage: revising the cultural script / David Popenoe -- Household labor and the routine production of gender / Scott Coltrane -- Retirement: golden years for whom? / Toni Calasanti -- Pt. 6. The gendered classroom. Being a girl and being a boy: the voices of middle schoolers / Karen Zittleman -- "Spice girls," "nice girls," "girlies," and "tomboys": gender discourses, girls' cultures, and feminities in the primary classroom / Diane Reay -- Making a name for yourself: transgressive acts and gender performance / Ann Ferguson -- Pt. 7. The gendered workplace. Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: a theory of gendered organizations / Joan Acker -- Bringing the men back in: sex differentiation and the devaluation of women's work / Barbara F. Reskin -- The glass escalator: hidden advantages for men in the "female" professions / Christine L. Williams -- Farewell to the organization man: the feminization of loyalty in high-end and low-end service jobs / Karla Erickson and Jennifer L. Pierce -- Pt. 8. The gendered media. Contested images of feminity: an analysis of cultural gatekeepers' struggles with the "real girl" critique / Melissa A. Milkie -- "Complete freedom of movement": video games as gendered play spaces / Henry Jenkins -- Guilty pleasures: pornography and male sexuality / Michael S. Kimmel -- Pt. 9. The gendered body. The body and the reproduction of femininity / Susan Bordo -- Masculinities and men's health: moving toward post-superman era prevention / Don Sabo -- The many faces of gender inequality / Amartya Sen -- Trangendering: blurring the boundaries of gender / Wendy McCkenna and Suzanne Kessler -- Pt. 10. Gendered intimacies. The feminization of love / Francesca M. Cancian -- Sexual tensions in girls' friendships / Sharon Lamb -- A study of men and women from different sides of Earth to determine if men are from Mars and women are from Venus in their beliefs about love and romantic relationships / Susan Sprecher and Maura Toro-Morn -- Hooking up and forming romantic relationships on today's college campuses / Paula England ... [et al.] -- Sexual harassment and masculinity: the power and meaning of "girl watching" / Beth A. Quinn -- Pt. 11. The gender of violence. Wars, wimps, and women: talking gender and thinking war / Carol Cohn -- The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence / Russell P. Dobash ... [et al.] -- Rape-prone versus rape-free campus cultures / Peggy Reeves Sanday.
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