Table of Contents
1 Introduction to Gender
Aristotle, From Politics
Seneca Falls Conference, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"
Lois Gould, "X: A Fabulous Child's Story"
Judith Lorber, "'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender"
Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough"
2 Gender and Identity
Adrienne Rich, "What Does a Woman Need to Know?"
Sandra Cisneros, "Guadalupe the Sex Goddess"
Zachary Pullin, "Two Spirit: A Story of a Movement Unfolds"
Julia R. Johnson, "Cisgender Privilege, Intersectionality, and the Criminalization of CeCe McDonald: Why Intercultural Communication Needs Transgender Studies"
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, "He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy"
Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart, "Why I'm Still a Butch Lesbian"
3 Gender and Stereotypes
Brian Frazer, "How Big are Your Balls?"
Robert Jensen, "The High Cost of Manliness"
Gloria Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate"
Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
Jade Chong-Smith, "Hard Time: Lessons from a Maximum Security Prison"
Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Coming Out We All Ignored"
Sarah McMahon, "Rape Myth Beliefs and Bystander Attitudes among Incoming College Students"
Chapter 4, Gender and the Body
Susan Bordo, "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity"
The New York Times, "Call Cornell Co-Ed the 'Perfect Girl'"
The New York Herald, "Brooklyn Venus Much Too Large Is Verdict of Physical Horticulturists"
Brooke Kantor, Helen Clark, and Lydia Federico, "An Exercise in Body Image"
Nomy Lamm, "It's a Big Fat Revolution"
Kate Fridkis, "Why I'm Hot for Peter Dinklage"
Sherman Alexie, "Jason Collins Is the Envy of Straight Men Everywhere"
5 Gender and Popular Culture
Michelle Law, "Sisters Doin' It for Themselves: Frozen and the Evolution of the Disney Heroine"
Tasha Robinson, "We're Losing All Our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome"
Brittney Cooper, "Iggy Azalea's Post-Racial Mess: America's Oldest Race Tale, Remixed"
Blue Telusma, "Kim Kardashian Doesn't Realize She's the Butt of an Old Racial Joke"
Noah Berlatsky, "Orange is the New Black's Irresponsible Portrayal of Men"
Emily Nussbaum, "Candy Girl: The Bright-Pink Resilience of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
6 Gender and Work
Judy Brady, "I Want a Wife"
Anne-Marie Slaughter, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All"
Stephanie Coontz, "Why is 'Having It All' a Women's Issue?"
Damien Cowger, "'Daddy Makes Books and Sammies': The Stay-at-Home Dad in the 21st Century"
Megan H. Mackenzie, "Let Women Fight"
World Bank, "Taking Stock: Stylized Facts about Gender at Work"
7 Gender and Globalization
Hillary Clinton, "Remarks at the UN Commission on the Status of Women"
Iver Arnegard, "The Fourth World"
Abigail Howarth, "The Day I Saw 248 Girls Suffering Genital Mutilation"
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, "Daughters are More Caring"
Leila Ahmed, "The Discourse of the Veil"
Appendix
Credits
Index
